Your Questions on Eating Local Answered Eating local helps the local economy and the environment by making soil richer, protecting water quality, and minimizing energy consumption. If you haven’t already, you should integrate local items into your meal planning. If you’re feeling a little hazy on how exactly you can start eating local, here are [...]
Will you be cool as a cucumber? Fresh cucumbers are simple to add to salads. For an easy salad just toss diced cucumbers with sliced red onions, red tomatoes and your favourite vinaigrette. This can be a fast way to make a refreshing salad that reaps some great benefits of cucumber. Not merely is the [...]
Christmas in New Zealand and Australia sees the beginning of six weeks or more of summer holidays for school children and a lot of peoples annual holidays, so instead of curled up all toasty in front of a fire we are off toasting in the sun. Traditions here are similar to the Northern Hemisphere, well, [...]
In the Netherlands, Christmas is very much a family get-together, that isn’t traditionally centred around food. It’s a time of meeting relatives, playing board-games and of course, on Boxing day, a trip to the nearest furniture mall. In the old days, if you were posh enough, you would eat goose or game for Christmas. If [...]