#LocktheGate, Bob Brown and Bob Katter
Some of the seemingly surprising alliances crystallised by the Lock The Gate campaign against the impacts of Coal Seam Gas exploration on land use and communities were on display in today’s media, as Lock The Gate President (and long time [...]
Cold weather cooking: Pea soup two ways. #2 – Pea and Ham
Well, there you go. Typical, isn’t it? I publish the first instalment, vegetarian pea soup, saying it’s perfectly suited to the freezing winter weather, and what happens? 20 – 22 degrees and blue skies in Melbourne for the best part [...]
Cold weather cooking: Pea soup two ways. #1 – Vegetarian
What’s nicer (don’t answer that!) than a warming bowl of pea soup in winter, especially the icy depth of winter we’re experiencing in Melbourne now with breezes alternating between antarctic (southerly) and alpine (northerly). I love soups like these because [...]
Sad Spice
SPICE started back in Summer 05/06 as a food magazine with a cover that wasn’t a plate of food, wasn’t a couple of models, and wasn’t anyone you’d see on telly. It was Gotthard Bauer, Margaret River baker of Yallingup [...]
E. coli finally tracked
You’ve no doubt heard of the E. coli outbreak in northern Germany. You may have missed the fact that after several false starts authorities have now fingered fenugreek seeds imported from Egypt. The EU has now placed bans on the [...]
Live cattle exports
This contented cow image from an ABC story is the converse of what I gather was shown on Four Corners last week. We didn’t, couldn’t watch it, but the images have been appearing all week in regular ABC TV news [...]
Rinderpest eradicated
I’d never heard of rinderpest, and I come from cattle country. And, absent human malevolence, the world will never hear of rinderpest again. Absent any cases for a decade, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization will, on June 28th, adopt [...]
Fixing nature’s plant growth engine
The FAO food price index has just topped the 2008 peak. Weather and harvests allowing the index should come down from the current peak by 2012, but there is an alarming upward underlying trend. So far there have not been [...]
Lester Brown on the food bubble
Lester Brown is never one to cheer you up. Recently in the dead tree version of New Scientist there was a short article on the food bubble, due to burst at any moment. The article turns out, for the time [...]
Wednesday Whimsy
Late night edition! This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a camo-iced butch cupcake for manly men.
Wednesday Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a kippered herring.
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