04 September 2009

Fairtrade spices standards - a reprise

Steenbergs is a commercial enterprise.  We operate in an economy based upon free market economics and that is something that we are completely comfortable with.

02 September 2009

New Spice Standards for Fairtrade

Fairtrade has issued new standards for Fairtrade spices which seem to be a recipe for chaos.  They basically say that you can trade any spice or herb as Fairtrade and that the Fairtrade price is the price agreed between the buyer and the seller.  A p...

19 August 2009

Steenbergs is product of the day at Woman & Home

Steenbergs Home Baking range of organic extracts, including organic Fairtrade vanilla extract and our natural almond extract, is featured as the product of the day at Woman & Home today.

12 August 2009

Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits - my personal response to the Review Authors and the FSA

A couple of weeks back now in July 2009, the Food Standards Agency ("FSA") issued a press release together with the publication of a scientific review of the published science on investigations into the comparison of the nutritional composition and h...

10 August 2009

Recipes for Peppermint Creams and Chocolate Strawberries

It’s been a weekend of baking and cooking for Jay’s birthday.  He had some specific requests for things plus we needed to get the sausages and baps for the proper “hot dogs”, ie not with boil in the bag frankfurters but real sausages and decent bread...

07 August 2009

Recipe for Lasagne with Traditional Ragu

As promised, here is the meat lasagne for the committed carnivores out there.  It uses an old ragù recipe from Bologna.

17 July 2009

Chinese Tea Ceremony

TEA CEREMONIES IN A MING DYNASTY STYLE

15 July 2009

How to Make a Good Cup of Tea

There is nothing worse than a dishwater-tasting cup of tea.

09 June 2009

Recipe - Make Your Own Burger

02 June 2009

Mulling Wine – Recipes For Mulled Wine Syrup and a Medieval Hippocras

30 May 2009

Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

27 May 2009

Chief Seattle's speech in 1854

This oft quoted piece from 1854 is attributed to Chief Seattle as his response to President Franklin Pierce’s statement that he would buy the land of Chief Seattle’s tribe.

27 May 2009

Vanilla – The Temperamental Diva

A brief history of vanilla

21 May 2009

What has Steenbergs done for Fairtrade?

16 May 2009

Being fair and responsible

At Steenbergs Organic, we have been committed to being an ethical business since we started in 2003, becoming Fairtrade for tea in 2004 (both as a trader and as a licensee). It is really important to us that we strike a good balance between our busin...

13 May 2009

Indian pepper chicken recipe

This recipe really should have been posted closer to the blog on black pepper.

08 May 2009

What does organic mean for Steenbergs in practicality?

Basic business set-up

01 May 2009

Thinking about organic?

At Steenbergs, we are passionate about the wonderful tastes, heady smells, glorious colours and the thrill and excitement of high quality pepper, spices and herbs.  We are, also, looking for products that can be traced back to the farmers and growers...