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The Joy of Soy – Posted in: General

How do you like your frappucino? Well, apart from whether to choose chocolate or green tea, it seems like there’s a growing number who don’t want their milky drinks to have any actual milk in them. According to Nielsen, a market research company which tracks food and drink sales, dairy free milk hit more than £136 million during 2010, compared with almost £103m in 2008 and £87 million in 2006. This change in consciousness has been noted…

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Ghee Happy! – Posted in: General, Uncategorized

If you’re familiar with Indian cuisine, you will probably already have used ghee – the golden, clarified butter with a slightly nutty aroma. Ghee is important throughout South Asia for use in cooking, religious ceremonies and medicine. In one form of Ayurvedic cleanse, the patient takes multiple doses of ghee each day, considered to purify the body, dissolve waste products and act as a powerful  and penetrating form of nourishment due to its purity and…

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Rural Retreat – Posted in: General

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.  – Charles Dickens Seems like everyone’s got the blues these days. Loneliness is becoming a social epidemic, and though there are many suggested cures (last weeks London Metro proposed comfort food), life doesn’t seem to be getting much easier for anyone. In last week’s Guardian on Sunday, reporter…

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