Category Archives: Food

The Secret History of Pasta

This fun, animated video follows the history of pasta from 5th century Sicily to the present day. Animation: Fly Machine Picture Co.

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Use The Right Onion |  DIY Cures 

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20 Years of Lies: The Mad Cow BSE Scandal | Plainly Difficult Documentary

Learn with Plainly Difficult! The Mad Cow Disease scandal was the British Governments attempt to cover up the link between beef and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) Which would result in thousands being exposed to the illness…… Thank you to my … Continue reading

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BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Chris Elliott on fighting food fraud

How ‘fingerprinting’ technology could help prevent another horse meat scam. Professor Chris Elliott is something of a ‘food detective’. A Professor of Food Safety and Microbiology at Queen’s University Belfast and a founding director of its Institute for Global Food … Continue reading

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Porter and Stout: What’s the difference? | The Craft Beer Channel

Porter and Stout: What’s the difference? | The Craft Beer Channel This week Jonny and Brad answer the question that’s puzzled beer geeks since the dawn of time – what’s the difference between Porter and Stout? As well as tasting … Continue reading

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The true history of the IPA | The Craft Beer Channel

The history of India Pale Ale is fraught with cliches, inaccuracies and pure invention – so we met with award-winning author and beer historian Martyn Cornell to get to the bottom of it then taste through the evolution it has … Continue reading

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How 2 Million Children Are Fed Daily By The World’s Biggest Free School Meal Provider | Big Batches

The Akshaya Patra Foundation has provided 3 billion free school meals and is one of India’s largest nongovernmental organizations. It prepares freshly cooked food and nutritious meals for 2 million children every day in 65 kitchens across 14 states and … Continue reading

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Charles Spence: Multisensory Experience and Coffee

In this immensely popular Symposium 2014 talk, Dr. Charles Spence of Oxford University shares his perspective on how the senses other than taste and smell can dramatically affect the experience of coffee. Expect to look at your cup of coffee … Continue reading

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Eating a Brazilian Feast For My First Time

[…] Thank you so much to Luciana, Juliana, Thiago, and Carina for all your incredible help with my order! […]

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