wildfoods.com

this looks interesting …

a UK based web site which supplies seasonal ingredients from all over the world.

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fruit and veg don’t have to look perfect

Hurrah for Waitrose - according to this story from the Independent, they are ” launching a range of “ugly” looking seasonal fruit at discounted prices for use in cooking. The “class two” produce will be either visually flawed or oddly shaped, according to Waitrose, but otherwise perfect for eating.”

Now - if only the great British public can be persuaded to buy them … mind you, I buy my fruit and veg from the greengrocer.

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quelle horreur!

From today’s Times comes an article about how some French chefs are “spraying an omelette with a truffle-flavoured chemical and injecting fake wild-mushroom drops into a duck filet”

more here.

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hard to find foods

May be found at www.hardtofindfoods.co.uk … providing, of course, you’re looking for what they sell. And if you don’t mind the spelling errors.

But useful, nonetheless.

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bureaucracy run amok (again)

A woman who baked a cake for a friend at a day centre was told it breached health and safety regulations.

Elaine Richards, 75, from Braunton in north Devon, was told the Age Concern centre in Barnstaple only allowed people to eat bought cakes.

More here …

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chocolate asparagus

I really can’t think of anything else to say.

Link here.

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Triple Chocolate Espresso Bean Cookies

seen on 101cookbooks.com

makes my buzzy chocolate cake look quite tame …

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adopt an olive tree

“Adopt one of its 881 trees for a year and you’ll receive all the produce from your tree. Imagine dunking your bread in your own oil from your own tree 1,500 miles away on a hillside in Italy.”

And only 60 quid!

We do actually have an olive tree in a pot on our patio; somehow I don’t think North Somerset is quite the right climate for it to fruit, although it’s very leafy …

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alas, poor Rudolph

Reindeer paté, anyone?. From www.firebox.co.uk.

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lets have a barbecue!

… “the Queen Mary 2 of outdoor cooking is the $35,000 Talos Outdoor Cooking Suite sold by Frontgate, a luxury goods catalog retailer. The sprawling stainless steel temple features a searing station with a restaurant-style griddle, a hardwood cutting board, two side burners to heat sauces, a warming drawer, 3/8-inch-thick cooking grates, a 16,000-B.T.U. ceramic infrared rotisserie, a bartender module with a sink and a nine-volt electronic ignition system. The company doesn’t release specific sales data, but a spokeswoman, Amy Crowley, said that fewer than 50 have been sold.”

From an article in the New York Times.

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