Archive for August, 2009

Cost Of Honey Increasing Due To Wet Summers

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

It looks like the cost of that sweet nectar juice known as honey could be on the up after the lovely summer rains have stunted production.
According to bee and honey experts (what a great job!), the drenched month of July left bee colonies hungry and food deprived as they were let unable to forage.
The British [...]

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Oral Cancer On The Rise Due to Increased Alcohol Consumption

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Alcohol is the main reason to blame for an “alarming” increase in the amount of people in their forties being diagnosed with oral cancers, it has been claimed.
Professionals in the field advised the amount of 40-somethings developing cancers of the mouth, tongue, lip and throat had gone up by 25 per cent in the last [...]

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Haggis Really An English Dish?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Haggis-makers across Scotland are up in arms today as they proudly defend the humble food’s origins following claims the ecipe for the traditional Scottish fayre was actually first pblished in an English book.

The brave woman making such a claim is food historian Catherine Brown, who seemingly discovered references to haggis in a book titled, The [...]

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Game Back On The Menu

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

For years gone by game has been the select cuisine of those from distinguished (read, rich) backgrounds – the upper classes, the aristocracy and the royals. However, over time the meat has slowly muscled its way into more humbler abodes – pubs and even supermarkets so that we may dabble with cooking it ourselves.
Now Norman [...]

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