Sunday is Valentines day – the day when the whole world celebrates love in some form or another. It doesn’t matter whether Valentine existed or not or whether the day itself originated in ancient Rome …
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“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.” said Martin Luther King Jr when he accepted his Nobel Peace Prize. Today we realise that while it’s possible, it’s not happening. It’s more than likely that 2010 will be the year that the world will experience a food crisis of unprecedented magnitude and that a real possibility exists that it will run out of food. Record setting droughts, exploding populations and crippling crop failures all over the world are combining to set the stage for a potentially
Whiskey has been gaining popularity in the past few years and even the younger crowd know and love this oldest of drinks. Today whiskey is made in America and Ireland while whisky can be found …
Marmalade is particularly popular in Scotland where it is, like everywhere else, made from citrus fruit, sugar and water but more peel and zest are used by the Scots, the citrus oil giving it a …
One of the good things that came out of the phylloxera disaster was that France started distilling whisky. Today it’s distilled in Brittany in five distilleries, the Distillerie des Menhirs, Guillon, Glann ar Mor, Kaerilis …
And then there was bourbon! Nobody really knows when bourbon was first made and who made it – it could have been Jacob Spears who was the first person to label his tipple ‘Bourbon whiskey’, …
Brazil, the country we all know for it’s carnivals, beaches and street parades, is not just a year long party! Like all other countries, it has it’s grey skies, depressing urban areas and huge environmental …
Cachaça is well known to yuppies and lushes all over the world – especially those with weakness for caipirinha. It’s a pretty strong alcoholic liquor made from fermented sugarcane and is the most popoular distilled …
One of the most well loved Brazilian snacks is the Coxinha that’s made from shredded chicken, spices and, sometimes, a little Catupiry-style cheese enclosed in a batter of potato or manioc flour and deep fried. …
Açaí (Euterpe Oleracea) is one of nature’s most exciting new foods and has only been available on our markets since the 1990’s – not to say that it didn’t existed before because it has been …
The history of Cameroon hasn’t been well recorded but archaeological evidence suggests that the country we know as Cameroon today has been inhabited since pre-history – at least for the past 50,000 years. The ancient …
Plantains and bananas are commonly eaten in the Cameroon and a freshly baked banana bread is just the business to most. Whilst this recipe has been adapted a little to suit modern kitchens, it will …
