Rachel Laudan

[The British] want their fruit and veg to be the best quality, available year-round, British but in season, cheap but with growers paid fairly, and ideally produced without any use of pesticides or artificial production methods. Hmm.  I’d like that too. This according  to a consumer survey carried out for FPJ by England Marketing.  FBJ [...]

The question, posed by Ken Albala.  Why doesn’t the “West” grind wet?  That is why didn’t they soak or boil grains before they ground them? As a preliminary I would say that they would certainly have tried it.  If you look back at the past, everything that could be done to grains was: toasting, sprouting, [...]

Only indirectly to do with food. I’ve often wondered at the Mexican four and five year-olds (or younger) who trot along beside their mothers for mile after mile.  It induces what I call the “first class passenger syndrome.”  No sooner are you upgraded to first class because of your miles than it’s all too easy [...]