We are living in the Anthropocene age, a new geological epoch born from our direct impact on the entire system of the Earth as a whole. As far back as April, the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) wrote that “rampant deforestation, uncontrolled expansion of agriculture, intensive farming, mining and infrastructure development, […]Read More
With International Coffee Day happening on the first of the month, and with cafés reopened post-lockdown for a comforting taste of the old barista trade, some of us might once again be at that dithering point when at the front of the queue and our brains suddenly think, “Which ‘milk’ do I ask for?” Milk […]Read More
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky… A pestilence isn’t a thing made to man’s measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a […]Read More
According to Bowel Cancer UK, bowel cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer in the United Kingdom. It is our nation’s second biggest killer behind lung cancer. Your bowel plays a critical function. Part of the digestive system as a whole, it comprises the small bowel (small intestine) and the large bowel (colon […]Read More
Interview with Patrick O’Connor – producer of Organic Kitchen Kombucha
What initially intrigues (and sometimes admittedly repulses) most people about kombucha is the scoby: that solid mass within the drink. This scoby (acronym for the ‘symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast’) is created during the fermentation process when the most dominant bacteria in the starter of other bacteria and yeasts start building into a fibrous […]Read More
Fermentation and Your Gut: Kombucha, Kefir & Beyond
How’s your digestive synergy these days? Are your prebiotics and probiotics in symbiosis? Or does something seem a little off? Of course, you might have no idea what we’re on about… The point is gut health, or your digestion. Maintaining a healthy balance and not ending up with stomach woes seems to take lot of […]Read More
Food Miles, Fairtrade & Carbon Footprint
Food shopping these days is either a nightmare in guilt management or a marathon in label deduction and ethical decision making (not to mention cost-calculating). Furthermore, no matter how ‘clued-up’ you believe yourself to be, there always seems to be that one product that ends up flipping everything you thought you knew entirely on its […]Read More
A New Year; a New You. That’s how the general thinking goes, isn’t it? Come January, we’re over-indulged, bursting at the seams with a craving not for further decadence and rich foods, but for a lighter, fresher, healthier way of life. Well, roll on in (no joke intended) Veganuary. Now a regular on the January […]Read More