Tim Worstall

Well, yes, sorta.

But these seasons slip by unnoticed, while we gorge on a monolithic diet of white bread, potatoes and red meat. We steadfastly ignore the real beauty of the alimentary calendar. The unique landscape and growing conditions found in each UK region should allow a recognisable distinctiveness that local people can not only take […]

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Talking about where to have lunch in Washington DC Ezra Klein offers this:

It’s all vegan, but it’s unreasonably delicious. Get the spicy chicken bowl,

Vegan chickens now? No wonder the entire governmental system based there is so screwy.

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Scientists are working on a variety of cell culture procedures. The cutting edge of in vitro meat engineering is the attempt to get cells to grow as if they were inside a living animal. Meat like steak is a complex combination of muscle, fat and other connective tissue. Reproducing the complexity of muscle is proving […]

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Take inspiration from our gallery of interesting edibles - you could be munching on your own mung beans before you know it.

Whoopee!

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Very good.
Two of the leaders in The Times:

His M&S
Marks & Spencer needs a new chief executive to help its new chairman
His S&M
Max Mosley should resign

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Parents who want their children to eat healthily should focus more on serving them extra fruit and vegetables and less on giving them expensive organic produce, according to one of the country’s leading nutrition experts.

Organic food for reasons of taste, for moral reasons perhaps, but not because it’s doing you good. For the extra expense […]

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"They get fully hooked, it is an extremely noxious thing. It is more common with bulimia than anorexia but you get the combination of empty calories with no nutritional value and the risky behaviour that goes with being drunk."

This is something that rather annoys me, this mantra of "empty calories".
Yes, I know what is meant, […]

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How glorious, our Brussels Lords and Masters sacrifice a charity upon the altar of the Great Game:

No charity would be better placed to save lives in Chingai than ApTibet, of which the Dalai Lama is the patron. It has carried out more than 150 aid projects in India and Tibet, funded by many well-known trusts […]

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Yeast extract and champagne. Mmm, Mmm, Mmmm. "It sounds like something you might catch," says a colleague when I explain this to her.

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I hate to blithely dismiss a whole swathe of scientific findings but I don’t believe a word of this. Fat gene, my foot

Gosh, what is it, what stunning secret knowledge makes India Knight capable of simply dismissing peer reviewed science?

Having written a diet book explaining how I lost my five stone, I also have a […]

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It is possible, I suppose, that even now I could outgrow these prejudices. In my early twenties for example, I finally discovered a love for salted anchovies. Until that point I had hated them. Now if I see the word anchovy on a menu I’m likely to order the dish. I was actually in my […]

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You really do have to hand it to our MPs and Lords: knowing arses from elbows is clearly an advanced manouvre for them.

All artificial colourings in food and soft drinks should be banned, a parliamentary committee urged yesterday in a report on the effect of diet on the brain.
The associate parliamentary food and health forum […]

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Right, mark this down with lettuce and all the other rabbit food as somthing to be avoided:

Yoghurt health drinks are at the centre of safety fears after 24 patients died during clinical trials of probiotics, the dietary supplements containing potentially beneficial bacteria.

Beef, potatoes and onions seem the only safe things left. Plus bacon, of course.

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OK, we know that male dairy calve are worth nothing and are therefore shot at birth. We know that at least part of this is because we Brits don’t eat veal.

But in their bid to turn out ever-greater quantities of milk at ever-lower cost, dairy farmers have come to rely on what US nutritionist Sally […]

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A list of those things that schoolchildren should be able to cook:
Carrot dippers and cheese and chive dip.
Potato and cauliflower cakes.
Vegetable soup with swede or turnip.
Cottage pie with parsnip topping.
Cucumber raita.
Spring greens stir fry.
Purple sprouting broccoli and fish parcels.
Spinach mushroom and onion lasagne.
Spring onion, smoked fish and new potato salad.
Veggie kebabs.
Peas and beans in tomato […]

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Apparently:

Teenagers will be given compulsory cooking lessons at school for the first time, under government plans to ensure that all pupils know how to make eight different healthy meals.

And they’re asking us, yes, us plebs, to provide the list of dishes that they should know how to cook.
So, no pork, for that will offend Muslims […]

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In a piece on rising food prices Alex Renton says this:

But the factors behind the price rises in Leith are exactly the same as those in Mexico, or in China - where, last Wednesday, the government introduced price controls on dairy products, meat, vegetables and cereals. And while food price inflation hit 18 per cent […]

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This bit is really quite good:

Immediately, this riles. Yes, we all have to take responsibility for our consumer choices. But those choices are a lot more meaningful for some than for others. The difference between a three quid broiler and a £10 organic bird to someone with dependants, living on - let’s not even be […]

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An interesting little example of the stupidity of the food testing system in the European Union. First, the Americans have considered this matter:

US farmers have been given the green light to produce cloned meat for the human food chain. In a 968-page report billed as a "final risk assessment" of the technology, the US Food […]

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There’s more to this than meets the eye, you know?

As many of you will have been painfully aware, in Britain, sales of marmalade are in decline. While the attention of the nation has been focused on such diversionary chimeras as Iraq, the Iowa caucus and Britney Spears’s mentalness, marmalade has been going the way of […]

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