The Real Food Solution began life as Once Upon a Cook, Food Wisdom, Better Living and was originally published last year under that title. Now retitled as The Real Food Solution, this book has been revised and fully updated to reflect the ever-changing debate on food, farming and emerging science,...
Am I really posting a shout-out for sugar? Am I going crazy? Well yes! And no! National Sugar Awareness Week (20-26 January) designed to “raise awareness of the health impacts of consuming excess sugar (and calories) and educating the public to help them to consume less. The aim of the...
#Organuary 2020 is a very good time to make my slow-cooked and deeply nourishing Offaly Good Beef Shin Ragu. I’m starting the new decade with a resolution to play my part in reducing food waste, respect the animals that feed us and support a regenerative environment. To celebrate #Organuary, I’ve...
#Organuary 2020 is a very good time to make my slow-cooked and deeply nourishing Offaly Good Beef Shin Ragu. I’m starting the new decade with a resolution to play my part in reducing food waste, respect the animals that feed us and support a regenerative environment with this delicious ragu chock...
Every year on 1st October, the world comes together on International Coffee Day to celebrate the liquid nectar and recognise the millions of people across the globe – from farmers, to roasters, baristas, coffee shop owners and more – who work hard to create and serve the beverage we...
As we saw in Part One, our modern bread is making us sick. The Real Bread Campaign’s Sourdough September is an initiative to share the delicious delights of genuine sourdough and to encourage more people to bake their own. Genuine sourdough made with three simple ingredients: flour, water and salt,...
It’s Sourdough September and anyone who has ever experienced the wonder of an authentic, slowly fermented organic sourdough loaf will agree that this is bread as it should be: easily digestible, sustaining, flavoursome and utterly delicious. And it’s healthful. We make organic, long-fermented sourdough regularly at home and I always...
Every 7th April is designated by the World Health Organisation as World Health Day. From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948 and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of a specific health theme to highlight a priority area of concern for...
Are we becoming more intolerant to the foods we’re eating? Few of us can have escaped the tragic story of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, a teenager who died after she suffered a fatal allergic reaction to sesame seeds which were present (but unlabelled) in a sandwich she bought at a well-known chain. ...
We used to think that stress was a ‘brain-state’… but we now know that stress messes with the state of our ‘gut’ too. What is stress? STRESS is our body’s physiological response to a perceived threat. Any physical, emotional or environmental stressor can provoke our sympathetic nervous system’s ‘fight and...
