Wild, natural plants and fungi can be dangerous, potentially causing immediate harm and even death. Read Poisonous Plants and Fungi to know what to avoid.
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Food Matters, the new Cabinet Office report on food policy
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Still from Our Daily Bread – spraying sunflowers
Loyal visitors to the Tracing Paper will have noticed a distinct lack of activity over most of the last year. I’m ashamed that I only just avoided a clear six month hiatus with a (very) brief post about the superb documentary on the modern food industry, Our Daily [...]
The Competition Commission’s provisional findings include real criticism of supermarket practices with suggested remedies that might just tackle some of the problems. But suggested changes to the planning system would be nothing less than a bonanza for the larger retailers and spell disaster for town centres and the small independent operators.
Early August and the harvest of the winter sown oilseed rape (Brassica napus, its edible varieties also known as canola) is well underway in the UK. Rape is combine harvested to yield its tiny black seeds, destined to be crushed to produce oil for food, industrial uses and, increasingly, biofuels. A growing number of farmers are cold pressing the seeds themselves to produce extra-virgin rapeseed oil.
Amazon.com has today announced a new venture: AmazonFresh will be delivering fresh (and frozen and “shelf-stable”) foods, ordered online, to households in Seattle.
The foods available will include “highest-quality fresh fruits and vegetables” and a “leading assortment of natural, organic, and specialty brands”.
Some of the produce is described as “farm-fresh” but there’s no further information on [...]
What was in season 146 years ago? Here’s Mrs Beeton’s list of Things in Season in April
To decode your food, use The Tracing Paper’s Food Tracer – a searchable list of all UK identification codes.
What are those oval codes?
If you buy meat – or fish, milk, cheese or any food produced from or by an animal – in the European Union, you should find an oval symbol like this somewhere on [...]
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