Winter drops in. Love Crowdsaucing? Now try Krautsourcing.
It’s funny, last week I read that the 2016 El Niño was officially over, the very next day the cold front hit and it was like summer had leap-frogged autumn and gone straight into winter. Suddenly it’s too cold for Shelley and Craig Heppel to grow lettuce, Coolibah Farm’s roquette got frozen in Monday’s frost and overnight broccoli […]
Opium, Billy Tea and Tamil Feasting
So about 200 years ago the British public started getting a taste for tea – it helped clothing factory workers on long shifts stay awake and not get sucked into the steam powered machinery. The Brits bought their tea from the Chinese who had discovered it along with most everything else thousands of years previously. The Chinese […]
Germ theory, filth and a slightly fizzy revolution
In the past 165 years we’ve developed an oddly paradoxical culture (sorry) towards bacteria. With the discovery of Germ Theory back in the mid 1800’s humans became aware that disease was passed on through bacterial infection. Doing things like sterilising scalpels and washing our hands before cutting patients open and rummaging around inside of them became common practice. And although less […]
Recycling the world as the sun comes up.
The question has been posed, what does breakfast have in common with the general concept of recycling? Gee well there’s a few directions you could take that. There’s the path that leads to thinking about breakfast as the first meal of the day, beginning again the metabolic processes of food digestion, internal composting, and finally […]
Stairway to Intestinal Heaven. Summer Cabbage Reading Part Five
Last night my friend’s 40th birthday party marked the end of a chocolate and alcohol abundant, sleep and exercise poor summer. I’m feeling sluggish, heavier and getting out of bed for a morning ride has turned into pulling up the doona. But from this morning and for the entire month of February I am embarking on […]
Shortbread honouring and deadly cowcumbers. Shop News.
This is the last recipe/specials newsletter for the year (there’s one more Sunday newsletter). Thanks for putting up with all the puns and the 70’s smooth music references. If you’re off over Christmas have a great break and if you’re working may your workplace be unnaturally relaxed and oddly spacious. Thanks for supporting Fair Food […]
