All articles by Joanna Blythman – Page 11
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News
Don’t let’s become gooseberry fools
The supermarkets’ obsession with exotic fruit is leading to the neglect of British classics such as gooseberries and damsons. So now we can add the baobab to the list of weird and wonderful fruit novelties on supermarket shelves. Loaded with vitamin...
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Regaining the art of carrot peeling
We've paid a ludicrously high price for convenience in the past. Now it's time to get a little wiser in our approach to cooking affordably. Have you noticed how supermarket supremos have stopped mouthing off about the cash-rich/time-poor...
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Now or never for global fish stocks
Without radical action our favourite fish will disappear from dinner plates. Ministers should listen to environmentalists, not trawlermen. Top chefs Raymond Blanc and Tom Aikens are joining forces with Greenpeace at Old Billingsgate ...
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I want food, not a chemical cocktail
The World Cancer Research Fund report must not be dismissed as alarmism. It should prompt more study into what goes into our food. Isaw Professor Sir Michael Marmot, chair of the World Cancer Research Fund's review into the causes of...
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Meat must escape price straitjacket
Farmers could escape supermarket pricing pressures by returning to traditional free-range and slow-maturing ways of producing meat. Arable farmers are sitting pretty. Thanks to drought and flood in key grain-growing areas of the world,...
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Comment & Opinion
TV makers: where is their morality?
Ofcom's ban on junk food advertising during children's TV broadcasting has prompted a predictable chorus of whingeing. Advertisers hate it - well no surprise there - but I did raise an eyebrow at the outcry from programme makers bemoaning the...
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News
Go bananas for Caribbean fruits
A decade ago, two-thirds of the bananas we ate in Britain came from the Caribbean, notably the Windward Islands of Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada. Now sales have been whittled away to less than 10% as cheaper fruits from the...