Posts tagged 'Steenbergs spices' - page 12
19 October 2009
Response from Kabul about Schools, Hospitals and Mosques
Relating to my blog dated 6 October 2009 (see below for links), I have had this response from Mike Hollis, who is Programme and Strategy Co-ordinator, Department for International Development in the British Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Read more11 October 2009
Recipe for Roast Pork With Apple Sauce
It's that harvesting time of the year, with the trees turning a golden brown and the fruit fulsome on the trees. I picked an armful of windfalls from our garden and took them inside to make apple sauce to have a with a delicious joint of pork that w...
Read more15 September 2009
Recipe for Saturday Was Shepherd's Pie
Back closer to the brief, I made shepherd’s pie on Saturday morning. Typically, Saturday turned out to be the last blast of the summer with one of the best day’s of the whole year – no wind, unbroken sunshine and a really relaxed day with friends an...
Read more13 September 2009
Turner's Rain, Steam, Speed - The Great Western Railway
Last weekend, we spent in London at The Speciality & Fine Food Fair 2009, where we had a stand displaying our wares to UK trade buyers. It was a good show, with numbers slightly down, but the quality was there; the froth has gone out of the mark...
Read more02 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 more17 August 2009
Goethe and an afternoon walk at Harlow Carr
We went as a family to Harlow Carr Gardens on the outskirts of Harrogate this weekend. We go every so often to enjoy a quick walk in the gardens. It's pretty small and really quite genteel, which is just what you would expect for Harrogate. I pref...
Read more16 August 2009
Ignore the FSA and continue to believe in the best of organic foods
I have reflected further on the Food Standards Agency ("FSA") report on the nutritional and health effects of organic. And I have 2 further thoughts, being, firstly, that the concept of the report is irrelevant, and, secondly, there is probably no p...
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