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There’s no need to spend a fortune this Valentine’s Day and anyway, most of us have been affected by the economic downswing in some way or other, so we can’t.  It is important, though, that …

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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’, …

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The first humans probably settled in Australia around 40,000 – 70,000 years ago (the earliest human to be found, Mungo Man is about 40,000 years old). and the Aborigines (there must have been at …

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Whilst smoking is not tolerated here at JFN there’s no point in sticking one’s head under the sand and pretend that nobody smokes. We are all well aware of the dangers of smoking and we …

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Cozonac is a sweet, yeast-raised egg-rich bread that is gloriously tasty and filled with  nuts, poppy seeds or raisins. In the next two weeks, kitchens throughout Romania will be filled with the aroma of orange …

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It is said that this eggnog recipe was created by the colonial- era nuns at the Convent of Santa Clara in Puebla! Whether this is true or not, is relatively unimportant but but everyone knows …

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As unusual as it may seem, whole bay leaves can be used in cakes and desserts with really great results. Here the ancient laurel is used to flavour and give an unusual new depth to …

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Honey, one of the most assimilable carbohydrate compounds, is a really practical and utterly delicious way to ingest one of the most effective foods for generating, creating and replacing energy in the body and helps …

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It’s always handy to have a couple of tins of cookies in the cupboard for unexpected guests with children or simply for the unexpected guests. Period. They can be turned into desert in only a …

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Cake is always a treat and even though some of us aren’t really partial to sweet things, these recipes have to tempt even the most hardened ‘cake-haters’ among us. Naturally we couldn’t resist including a …