Posts tagged 'Fairtrade spices' - page 5
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...
Read more26 August 2009
Back on the shop floor at Steenbergs
I am currently working back on the Steenbergs shop floor as our chief blender, Alan, is on his annual holiday somewhere in Greece. It is great fun to be back where it all began, blending the blends that I’ve created over the years and grinding organ...
Read more12 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...
Read more10 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...
Read more06 August 2009
Recipe For Vegetarian Lasagne With Spinach
Personally, I have never been a great fan of lasagne even if it is one of those firm family and probably national favourites. But then again, I don’t like spaghetti bolognaise. I am in a minority of 1 versus several hundreds of millions of people i...
Read more30 July 2009
Herbs and Spices for Your Health
Herbal medicine has historically been the primary approach to acute and chronic health problems - this remains the case still in many countries. We often forget that herbal medicine is the most enduring form of treatment and is still used by 80% of...
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