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Every year up to seventy million sharks are killed for their fins. Shark fin soup! Do you want to know more?

Moves are afoot to make planet earth a safer place for sharks. For billions of years they have remained at the top of the ocean’s food chain, until humankind developed a taste for shark fin soup. I wonder whose idea it was to slip the “kind” in behind human. Over the past year, particularly in…

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The Era of the Celebrity Farmer

We’ve been living in the world of the Celebrity Chefs for the past few years now and Katherine Gustafson brings to our attention the next era, that of the Celebrity Farmer. She writes in the Huffington Post about Bill Stinson a farmer in Peace Valley Farm in Williamstown, Massachusettes whose rise to fame came when a high…

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What we’re reading: Farmers’ markets, digging for wider choice

In a bid to broaden her menu, non-supermarket shopper Joanne O’Connell has been hitting farmers’ markets I am now more than halfway through my year of living without supermarkets. I have saved money by buying in bulk, growing my own vegetables and buying household goods online. But one thing I miss about brightly lit supermarket…

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Jody Scheckter talks about his passion for food and Laverstoke Farm

The former F1 World Champion lives a life more in tune with nature nowadays, a stark contrast from the time he was burning rubber on the worlds racing circuits. When he retired Jody Scheckter set out to produce the best tasting healthiest food and for this he realised that he had to follow nature very strictly with two main…

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The best steak in South Africa! Ultimate Beef Challenge Winner

Brian Angus and his Kobe Style Beef win the Heritage Day, Ultimate Beef Challenge. Steve Maresch of the Local Grill, the 2011 Eat Out Best Steakhouse Winner, has had a long love affair with beef and this is what led him to establish the first South African Ultimate Beef Challenge. His search for the best…

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How Parma Ham is made.

Parma Ham is from the northern Italian province of Parma which is also famous for it’s Parmesan Cheese. The production area is restricted to a specific 29 sq km area around Parma, all below 900 meters. To the west it is bound by the river Stirone and to the east the river Enza. The pigs…

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How Parmesan Cheese / Parmigiano Reggiano is made.

Parmesan Cheese in English and Parmiagiano Reggiano in Italian, can only be made in certain Italian regions. The cheese is named after the region that it is produced in, Emilia-Romagna, a region in Northern Italy which includes areas such as Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, and Bologna. It has Protected Designation of Origin and as such only cheese from the Emilia-Romagna area in…

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French research reveals that Coca Cola and Pepsi contain alcohol

Research published in France reveal that Coca-Cola and Pepsi contain minute traces of alcohol. In what might cause a stir in religious communities that ban the consumption of alcohol, tests carried out by the French National Institute of Consumption revealed that more than 50% of the cola’s on the market contain traces of alcohol. The…

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Avocados triple chance of pregnancy via IVF, researchers claim.

Researchers in the US claim that eating avocados and dressing salads with avocado oil can help women, trying to have a baby through IVF fall pregnant. The study, carried out at the Harvard School of Public Health and funded by the US National Institute of Health, revealed that monounsaturated fat found in olive oil, sunflower…

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