Sorting the Beef from the Bull featured on New Food Magazine blog
Our book is featured in New Food Magazine’s blog!
Faking it: peppercorns
The first of many kitchen experiments: making fake peppercorns!
Suspicious saffron
There have been reports of beet fiber, capsicum, corn silk, grass, onion, silk, gelatine and even dried animal meat being fashioned into little replica saffron threads.
A Cod, By Any Other Name
Seafood is one of the most traded food commodities in the world. Squid caught off the coast of California are shipped to Asia to be cleaned and packaged, before being shipped back to the US for sale – a 19,000 km round trip. Shrimp have earned considerable air miles before ending up on our plates….
The strawberry timebomb: how plant biology can help you store your produce
What to do when you buy an alarmingly large amount of British strawberries – knowing the difference between your climacteric and non-climacteric fruits. Read the full article on the Botanic Garden blog
Roll over Rex…humans aren’t such bad sniffers after all: Smell part II
Humans can outperform our canine friends and the most sensitive measuring instruments when sniffing out certain odours.
The Fraud Factor
While food fraud has been discussed thoroughly in terms of globalisation, and even in the context of security and acts of terrorism, to my knowledge there has yet to be much discussion on food fraud in the context of climate change and an uncertain environment.
Grey hairs, spiderman and chicken feed: A decade since my first publication
In grade 3, my best friend Sarah would be tackling the Lord of the Rings series for the third time, while I was reading X-men and Spiderman. We both turned out OK…better than OK.