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Word of Mouth (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
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The sauces which drew opprobrium over a year ago are under fire again, but this time the celebrity chef's team are taking action not making excuses Once again, Jamie Oliver has hit the headlines for his salt-laden pasta sauces , with five of his, and his supermarket of choice Sainsbury's, tomato-based sauces topping a list for being the saltiest of the salty. The campaigning chef prompted shouty capitals...
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Pete Brown's Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
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In the end it was typical Brew Dog: a good, original, interesting idea, overhyped so ludicrously that the reality was a bit of a letdown, but having created enough debate and discussion to make you suspect this is what they intended all along. If this blog is the only thing you've ever read on the internet, you may be unaware that yesterday, after teasing us for months, Brew Dog announced the launch...
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Pete Brown's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
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It's one of my broken record mantras: beer is the most sociable drink in the world. And this week proves it - if only people reported on the GBBF as much as they did about Obama, the world would be a happier place. ATJ posted recently about how the sad demise of Beers of the World magazine means "we're all beer bloggers now". He wasn't criticising blogging at all, merely saying that it's...
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ContraTory (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
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“Organic food is no healthier and provides no significant nutritional benefit compared with conventionally produced food, according to a new, independent study funded by the Food Standards Agency ” reports The Guardian . I’m sorry, but I thought the whole point of organically grown food was that it was environmentally friendlier, not “healthier”.
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A Human Ecologist's View (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
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OUR techno-industrial development has provided greater productivity, choice and higher living standards. However, despite scientific and technological advancements we still fail to understand the full health and environmental impact of our actions.
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Stonch's Beer Blog (Free subscription) | 22/07/2009
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According to the British Beer and Pub Association, the UK is losing 52 pubs a week. Why don't they be honest and insert the word "shit" before "pubs" in the headline, and admit that many of those reopen immediately or soon after under better management?
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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 18/02/2009
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Touchy, touchy . The former Blair boot-licker and master of spin sounds like he's struggling with the economy he helped create. What else are people supposed to say about an economy that was based on banksters? Blair and Mandelson had no problem accepting the high flying days of yesteryear when the banks were booking ridiculous profits - which we now know were false and based on nothing - but this...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 16/01/2009
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The British food watchdog is asking fast-food restaurants to add calorie-counts to their menus -- and want to adopt a set of "traffic light" labels that indicate dangerously high levels of salt, fat, sugar (or, presumably, eyeball-gnawing maggots, see post below). Pizza Hut is in. Men in Britain now get a quarter of their food energy intake outside the home, while women get 21%. A number...
