Whether you are an experienced pickler or a preserving novice, Riverford's new Preserved Lemon Kit will add colour to your kitchen shelf and an exotic zing to your cooking. Developed by Riverford's pickling guru, Anna Colquhoun, the kit is an easy and tasty way to start pickling at home and add a North African flavour to your food.
Hunger and malnutrition in childhood will trap almost a billion young people in poverty by 2025, according to a major new campaign, launched today by Britain's leading development charities and faith groups. The group warns that in a world where there is enough food for everyone, the scandal of children growing up hungry also imposes a grave economic burden on the developing world, costing £78 billion over the next 15 years.
The Kennel Club is urging pet owners and motorists to take caution when using anti-freeze, as just a small spill could be lethal to dogs. While the snow is a great source of enjoyment for a lot of people and their pets, who love nothing more than getting out for fun walks in the fluffy white stuff, bear a thought for their paws on the rock-salt and their attraction to some of the substances that make our life a little easier but become a real danger to theirs.
A new report from the Soil Association highlights the growth potential of food co-ops and buying groups to support access to affordable, ethical and sustainable produce. The report produced at the end of the Making Local Food Work, Big Lottery funded programme revealed over 400 enterprises were supported by the initiative with many opportunities for development across the UK.
The New Year is a time when people reassess their consumption habits and show a greater awareness towards health and physical fitness, to counteract the excesses of the festive period. For many people this concentrates around a 'detox' theme. A key element of such regimes is usually a good intake of water.
Despite extensive scientific evidence which highlights the benefits that breakfast provides to health and wellbeing, new research to mark Farmhouse Breakfast Week 20th - 26th January 2013 has found it's still the meal that many of us skip. On a busy morning, breakfast can fall low on your list of priorities, but taking just a few minutes to have a bite to eat in the morning will really pay off later in the day.
