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GINGERLY!

Ah, little root with a powerful punch!  What would Indian, Thai or Indonesian cooking be without you?  Or Christmas baking?  Or my evening tea? What to do with it?  Liven and spice dishes up!  A little goes a long way so it is wise to buy fresh in small pieces.  Ginger is healthy, too.  It [...]

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Vanilla – Precious Orchid

Vanilla – Spanish for ‘small sword’ or ‘pod’, is the pod of an orchid plant native to Mexico,  Central America and the W. Indies. Vanilla (Vanilla planiflora) is a member of the family orchidaceae. In 1517 the Spanish landed in Mexico searching for the legendary gold of El Dorado.  Not only did they find gold, [...]

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Milk, Myths and Utter Nonsense

If you are North American, you no doubt grew up with a glass of milk at every meal and when you were thirsty, you reached for the milk carton and downed another glass or two. Then with desserts of course, another glass of milk. Who can deny that biscuits (cookies) and milk are inseparable? Your [...]

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Wine – Bending old Rules

A generation ago, the hard and fast rules were:  red wine with red meat, white with poultry,  rosé was snubbed as not worthy and sweet wine with (in some countries) or after the dessert. Red wine was to be room temperature, white and rosé wine (if you dared drink it anyway) , cold (8° C. [...]

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Beyond Pumpkin Pie

Beyond pumpkin pie, the soups and other baked or roasted fare, pumpkin carvings and childhood myths, there lies a medicinal wonder: pumpkins pack a nutritional punch. With no cholesterol, negligible fat and salt, high potassium, pumpkin also supplies more than 300% of the RDA for Vitamin A (carotene) and 20% of Vitamin C, 80 calories [...]

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Soya – Bane or Boon?

Say ‘Soya’ and visions of vegetarians, health food shops and alternative life styles comes to most people’s minds.  Long crowned THE century’s favourite child as far as (western) health is concerned, soy is considered the ideal low-fat, zero cholesterol protein for those wishing to avoid meats. It has also been the ideal choice for those [...]

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