Posts tagged 'Steenbergs' - page 17
11 July 2009
Some Good Books on the Environment
I have recently read Al Gore’s “Earth in the Balance” which is a pretty good overview of the environmental issues facing the world. It is lucid and comes up with some sensible political strategies to managing the potential ecological issues impactin...
Read more08 July 2009
Recipe - Wild Harvested Samphire
For many, the sign of summer is the first swallow or the sound of a cuckoo or the sound of cricket being played or perhaps Glastonbury of the Summer solstice. For me, it is samphire. Samphire is one of those truly old foods from the wild that peopl...
Read more07 July 2009
Recipes: Macaroons – part 3
This is the final recipe that I think is worth using for macaroons. It came from a Women’s Institute charity cookbook. It came with a tale that the word “macaroon” stems from the Greek makaria which means happy, and was introduce by the Greek to Na...
Read more30 June 2009
New Study into Aspartame
Artificial sweeteners are one of my food paranoias that, in my view, rank up there as one of those danger signs hanging over modern living; they are something that purport huge health benefits versus the issues supposedly attached to natural sweetene...
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