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Colin’s Corner
The radical toadstool Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake (The Bodley Head,… read more
What happens after Covid-19? There could be at least some silver lining in the horrible black cloud of coronavirus. It might prompt the general… read more
A Matter of Vocabulary Colin Tudge writes (February 15 2020): I reckon it is worth making clearer than we perhaps do the meanings of… read more
Food Culture
Home Cooking 2020 I am always firm in describing myself as a “Home Cook” rather than a chef.? There is a world of… read more
Slow Fermented Bread Recipes Using the "Sponge and Dough" method, which may also be combined with cool overnight fermentation, produces bread that is full… read more
Bristol Easter Biscuit Recipe Oil of Cassia is the defining flavour in this Bristol recipe for Easter Biscuits, whilst Sedgemoor uses cinnamon and brandy… read more
The Passing Scene
Michael Shulman: Eight Principles for post Covid-19 Reconstruction Michael Shulman takes Ricardo's Comparative Advantage and turns it on its head to become The Theory of Comparative Resilience.? You… read more
Small emergency loan programme Providing critical funds to the food sector during the Covid-19 crisis The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the fragility and vulnerability… read more
Crop diversity or intensive monocultural farming – guess which is better for biodiversity and climate change? Here's the abstract for this new study published in Nature March 18 volume?579,?pages 393–396 (2020)? Authors: J. Nicholas Hendershot, Jeffrey… read more