Cardiff’s City Road might not strike you at first as a place buzzing with Gen-Z hangouts. But take a stroll down the street a hundred yards and you’ll find a café-shop that might persuade you otherwise. Heralded as a hidden gem amongst plant fanatics, Eartha attracts green-fingered students by day and hungry foodies by night.
Read MoreNow, it may be cliche to admit that from the very first course of the mezze feast I knew we were in for a treat, but cliches exist for a reason and, in the case of this particular feast, it was true.
Read MoreCooking can cause all sorts of anxiety, stress and some embarrassment not because you can’t cook but perhaps, you feel like others will judge you. Maybe you have a favourite snack which is just combo mad, perhaps you’ve never even heard of hummus or don’t know how to use a microwave!
Read MoreChristmas is just around the corner and with recent trends showing a consistent rise in plant-based eating. Statistically speaking a recent survey shows that 19.6% of Brits are expected to choose vegetarian or vegan food this Christmas and in 2021 82% of people who tried Veganuary had drastically cut meat intake, according to a 6-month survey carried out by Veganuary.
Read MoreAccording to the ONS, one in eight adults were left unable to buy essential goods in their local supermarket in October due to the shortages we’ve seen in recent months. Politicians have spoken about a potential “winter of discontent”, with rising energy bills, increasing prices and a critical shortage of workers resulting in significant food and fuel shortages due to supply constraints.
Read MoreDuring the war years, my great-grandmother Margaret took her four children into Newcastle city centre with her mother, my great-great-grandmother Elizabeth. They were to visit a shop on Blackett Street that my grandma remembers as being magical.
Read MoreIt is Ruby Tandoh’s Eat Up: a small, green sliver of magic that encourages us to eat for joy, and the recipes that are sprinkled throughout were the first time I felt seen when faced with cooking.
Read MoreEvidence shows that people have chosen to avoid animal products for over 2,000 years. As early as 500 BCE, the likes of Pythagoras promoted benevolence among all species and Buddha too, discussed the vegetarian diet with his followers and so the concept is not as new as we all believe.
Read MoreMore people are taking on a ‘casual vegetarian’ lifestyle, or ‘flexitarian’ diet as more of the mass media calls it. This means that people are drastically cutting out their meat consumption – whether this is for ethical reasons, health concerns or environmental causes.
Read MoreOur leading biodiversity experts predict there will be more pandemics in the future unless we stop the senseless destruction of the natural world. If you have ever considered changing to a plant-based diet specifically to save the planet, you have to do it now.
Read MoreOn a planet with finite resources and entering the not-so-humble beginnings of an irreversible climate crisis, the way that we are currently producing, manufacturing, and consuming our food is unsustainable and inexcusable.
Read MoreKnowledge and wine appreciation are two completely different things. It’s easy to feel intimidated out of appreciating wine by not having a comprehensive understanding of what it is and what differentiates wines.
Read MoreFasting has a philosophical, spiritual, and psychological meaning: it represents the ability to choose over cravings. In recent years, various experts have increasingly proposed intermittent fasting as the miracle cure for losing weight and improving energy levels, attachment, negative thoughts and feelings that drive human suffering.
Read MoreWe have a systemic problem with the way we interact with food in this country. The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) released a report last year that explains in blunt reality just how much food the UK has wantonly disposed of in the last few years, how it has been wasted, and by whom. It quickly reveals that in 2018 we as a nation wasted 6.65 million tonnes of food.
Read MoreThere is no hot drink as pleasurable to sip than a cup of tea at its perfect drinking temperature, but getting tea at its best needs a certain degree of patience. It can be lip scaldingly hot at first, so timing is crucial here. Wait too long and it will be disappointingly cool, but there is a perfect temperature for each of us. For me, it is 57.3C precisely. I know this because I am a sad tea anorak and have measured it.
Read MoreI woke up to my complacency, maybe even entitlement when queuing outside Sainsbury’s in March 2019. Overnight, shelves were stripped of old faithful fusilli, and passive-aggressive loo roll disputes broke out. Before Christmas, freight out of the UK was blocked by European countries after the emergence of the super spreader Covid-19 strain, triggering concerns over fresh food shortages.
Read MoreEveryone seemed to be drinking the same thing, which made us very curious. It looked so refreshing, and we were beginning to feel a little left out, so we grabbed a table under the shade of a palm tree at the nearest bar.
Read MoreIt is an inconceivable privilege that in some parts of the UK we can sample Ethiopian injera one week and Georgian khachapuri the next.
Read MoreNothing brings back those nostalgic memories quite like dumplings. Specifically, Slovak pirohy. Stodgy, potato-y, fatty dumplings that hug me from the inside and make me feel like everything’s going to be okay.
Read MoreIf there was a book called The Coolest Things You Can Do To Help the Planet and You, it would say the latest thinking is to start eating more plant-based foods.
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