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How To Eat Slowly – Pheasant

By | 19 October 2012

We increasingly look to replace cheap poultry with high quality meat – but the price of quality chicken, no matter how meals are made from it, can still be steep. [...]

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How To Eat Slowly – An Apple A Day

By | 12 October 2012

Orchard fruits have done horrendously badly this year, with frosts and wind destroying blossom, and rain damaging your fruits. That said, Apples are now upon on us, and whilst Apples [...]

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How To Eat Slowly: Time to be a Piggy

By | 28 September 2012

Autumn tip-toes its arrival, the leaves turn a little, the nights draw in, and then suddenly, without warning the temperature sharpens and the air just smells of Fall: bonfire and [...]

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How To Eat Slowly – Grouse

By | 21 September 2012

Incredibly the United Kingdom has over 75% of the world’s remaining heather moorlands, making it a habitat far scarcer than rainforest or even mangroves. These beautiful moors seen on holidays, [...]

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How To Eat Slowly – Damsons

By | 7 September 2012

What a difference a year makes! Last year there were record crops nationwide of orchard fruits, and our markets and shops were awash with plums of every hue. None is [...]

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How To Eat Slowly – Cobnuts

By | 24 August 2012

Kentish Cobnuts are an all too rare find. A Presidia food in the SlowFood Ark of Taste, there were 7000 acres in Victorian times, now they number 200 and falling. [...]

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How to Eat Slowly – Tomato Feast

By | 17 August 2012

When thinking of tomatoes we think of the high summer sun, but every year that passes we forget that actually they are truly at their peak much later, with the [...]

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How To Eat Slowly –Squash Flowers and Runner Beans

By | 3 August 2012

It’s hard not to be over-run by courgette flowers if you grow your own, and it’s a delicious blessing to reduce the number of fruits which multiply over night by [...]

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How To Eat Slowly – SOS Milk and a Fish Supper

By | 23 July 2012

Small scale farming is very much in the news this week, with Milk rightly at the fore. I grew up in the extreme west of Cornwall, the very heartland of [...]

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How To Eat Slowly – Remembering the Past

By | 13 July 2012

The UK is an incredibly diverse country, with huge regional variations in food preparation; dishes – even the names of ingredients – can change from village to village, let alone [...]

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