Family meals mean something different to everyone, but for me it’s any meal that is taken sitting at a table, preferably with good company, good food and good conversation. No, the office desk is not a table and Twitter/Facebook/Instant Messaging is not good company, but will do in a push, there might be something to [...]

It’s been around for a long time and we should trust it absolutely, shouldn’t we? Recently I’ve been doing a lot of reading about food and nutrition is a big part of that, after all what’s the point in me sharing these recipes if I don’t have the first clue about the nutritional value, I [...]

This post is really a bit of a lazy one, these types of things to me are the equivalent of “the clip show” on TV. I read a fair bit online as well as offline about all things food. Sometimes these articles help me to form or reform opinions I have and express them in [...]

Recently, (about a week ago) I spotted a link from @donegangardens on twitter that led to a really surprising story. Essentially Haitian farmers have been offered 60,000 seed sacks of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds by Monsanto (manufacturers of Roundup). Not only have they turned them down, they have actually vowed to burn them. Full [...]

So, apart from Jamie Oliver what else is happening in the food revolution? Well I see Mark Bittman has recently launched his own blog over at http://markbittman.com/ and there are some excellent recipes and great content available there already and also a rapidly growing list of excellent contributors each with their own individual views and [...]