Here’s a chili paste that anyone from North Africa will already know well… Harissa is used in a multitude of hot/spicy dishes across the southern Mediterranean region and has a unique flavour profile you’ll love in a whole range of your own dishes where some heat is called for…Read More →
The scary headline has surfaced before – in fact, it’s on it’s third or fourth time around, right now – about Arsenic being found in rice destined for human consumption. Sounds very dark, but, if you look closer at the situation, you’ll probably conclude, as I have, that it’s a tempest in a teapot.Read More →
Okay… So you’re at the supermarket, going down your list. You get to the Meat Department and you bee-line it for the Hot Dogs and Bacon. It’s confusing enough that Hot Dogs now come in so many sizes and package weights. But, then, you discover that, Honey! They’ve shrunk the Bacon!Read More →
It’s been all over the news this past week – in my town, anyway. What I’ve long suspected has been confirmed. Some supermarkets are re-wrapping and re-dating their fresh meat and poultry products. That’s not only extremely unhealthy – it’s completely illegal!Read More →
Okay. Right off the top, I’ll re-assert my skepticism about so-called miracle cures for things like Cancer and Arthritis. And ‘miracle’ foods that claim they can make you smarter. But I thought it worthwhile to mention a new, low-key finding about links between Coffee and Obesity…Read More →
Just a quick – celebratory – post on a recent Yahoo! offering: Someone has finally got round to asking actual doctors, dieticians and other real experts about a laundry list of popular beliefs about lifestyle Dos and Donts in the contentious arena of ‘Diet and Health’ issues…Read More →
Mediterranean staples have become favourite dishes for many of us across the Western World in the past couple of decades, as the cuisines of different cultures meld and fuse and react with one another. Take, for example, the case of the Middle Eastern classic, Tabbouleh Salad…Read More →
Have you ever fantasized about owning a Food Truck? A lot of people in my town want to but aren’t allowed to. Even if you had the cash and the smarts to go out and build one, and you could put it on the road tomorrow, there are apparently a lot of reasons you should have another think…Read More →