A darker shade of chocolate: Green and Black’s and Ben Goldacre
If like me you’re a bit overwhelmed by the ubiquity of Green & Black’s chocolate, you might be interested to see this broadside from its founder Craig Sams against Bad…
30 days without supermarkets #28-30: wrapping up
The last 5 days of the no-supermarket challenge were scuppered by spending them in Prague where at least for the first couple of days, I defaulted to Tesco because I…
30 days without supermarkets #27: My new briki
I finally threw away the džezva that I bought in a department store in Belgrade in 1979 last year. My recent discovery of Lebanese coffee at Daily Fresh in Tooting…
30 days without supermarkets #26: defeat in Prague and glory of kitchen departments
Much as I feared, I had to abandon the challenge today as the prospect of quickly finding a suitable independent food retailer in central Prague was as likely as finding…
30 days without supermarkets #25: Selling sugar, salt and fat cheap
It doesn’t matter how much you push the idea of healthy eating, low-fat options, fresh ingredients, 5-a-day fruit and vegetables and a well-balanced diet, if in the end you offer…
30 days without supermarkets #24: Lemon shortbread
In the spirit of my non-wasteful ambitions of recent posts, i just had to finish up some butter and a couple of lemons, so I made some lemon shortbread biscuits,…