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An extraordinary French documentary about the dangers of chemical pesticides to the health of our children...
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Autumn makes everything pumpkin, Hallowe'en doubly so.....
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Baking is a dying art. But making your own bread and cakes is sociable, satisfying – and surprisingly simple. Here, Jonathan Brown shares his story about a wonderful bakery in England named Betty's Craft Bakery. There is more than an hour to go until dawn and the rest of the world may be safely slumbering in its bed but I'm putting on a hair net and slipping into my baker's whites...
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Eurpoean Union proposals which will potentially ban the use of carcinogenic, mutagenic, neurotoxic and reprotoxic substances will be voted on by members of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee on Wednesday November 5th. As neurotoxins, the group of substances known as neonicotinoids could be banned in the European Union...
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The vast majority of consumers believe cloned animals and their offspring should not be farmed for food, according to an EU study. Currently, there is no law to stop meat and milk from these animals getting into the food chain. Nor is there any requirement to label food from clone offspring. The EU and Britain's Food Standards Agency are in the throes of deciding how clone farming should be policed...
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ONCE you become accustomed to gas at $4 a gallon, brace yourself for the next shocking retail threshold: bananas reaching $1 a pound. At that price, Americans may stop thinking of bananas as a cheap staple, and then a strategy that has served the big banana companies for more than a century — enabling them to turn an exotic, tropical fruit into an everyday favorite — will begin to unravel. The immediate reasons for the price increase are the rising cost of oil and reduced supply caused by floods in Ecuador, the world’s biggest banana exporter...
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Here's a super-simple recipe from Evonne Heyning...
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Makes one 1lb loaf 155g organic wholemeal flour 155g strong white flour 5g sea salt 5g vegetable fat 8g fresh yeast 190ml water (tepid) 15ml fresh milk For the Egg/Milk Glaze 1 egg/35ml milk Place the flours, fat and salt into a mixing bowl. Rub in the fat until it forms a fine crumb with the flour...
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by Ysanne Spevack 3 medium onions, peeled and diced 3 medium carrots, peeled and diced 3 stalks celery, plus the inner leaves, chopped 4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed 4 tablespoons bacon fat or olive oil 4 cups / 700g mixed yellow and green split peas, soaked overnight 6 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce 2 teaspoons dried rosemary 2 teaspoons dried thyme 2 large or 5 small bay leaves freshly ground pepper 2 quarts / 2 litres chicken or vegetable broth (stock) 1 quart / 1 litre water 1 lb / 450g ham, cubed into 1/2” chunks, optional salt and pepper, to taste 1...
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Ysanne, hello. Love your book Grow Organic Cook Organic. My wife bought it for me for Christmas. One of our favorite recipes is the Butternut Squash Soup with Tomato Salsa...
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Dear Ysanne, It's fantastic dealing with you. You are so helpful and enthusiastic about helping people. You are also so efficient. You have so much energy too - aside from editing for Dmoz.org , running your busy and successful website, writing your specialist books, researching the world of organic food, and, I'm sure, many other things...
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Hi, I work with a law firm that is investigating the sales of organic milk from Costco, Safeway and Wild Oats. According to investigations the milk labeled organic, and being sold at higher prices, is in fact not organic according to USDA regulations. The milk production process used by these three stores is found to have over 14 violations of USDA regulations...
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