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Reduce your grocery bill: How to grow new vegetables from kitchen scraps

by Maggie | Apr 1, 2021 | Food & Drink Features

A pair of keen allotmenteers offer a guide to growing new plants from veg cuttings, fruit stones and pips. When you’re depositing your kitchen scraps – including old spuds, vegetable seeds and stones in the bin, or on the compost heap, think again. There are...

Grow your own: 8 superfoods that you can grow from home

by Maggie | Mar 1, 2021 | Food & Drink Features

Growing your own food is one of life’s unique pleasures. Not only is it cheaper than buying fruit and veg from the shops, but it’s greener too – and eating food you’ve grown from scratch is enormously satisfying. Plus, the growing process itself is relaxing and...

Michelin 2021: First star for Glasgow in 18 years – as London restaurant recognised after 20 days of trading

by Maggie | Feb 1, 2021 | Food & Drink Features

‘This is a blessing. It’s special. I know we’re going to come out of lockdown even stronger,’ Andy Beynon says. A global pandemic during which restaurants have been closed for months on end is a strange time to be handing out awards for fine cooking. But Michelin was...

Are you a crisp-aholic? 14 things you only know if you’re obsessed with crisps

by Maggie | Jan 1, 2021 | Food & Drink Features

Is there anything more enjoyable than settling down on the sofa of an evening with a cold glass of your favourite tipple and a big bowl of crunchy crisps? Everyone has their favourite type of the fried potato snack, of course, and fans of traditional flavours may be...

You either love it, or hate it…Marmite: A potted history of the British-born spread

by Maggie | Oct 30, 2020 | Food & Drink Features

Panic spread across the UK as it emerged that the much-loved yeast extract Marmite was at risk of being removed from the nation’s supermarket shelves. But what is the story behind this most British of brands? The product that has been loved and hated around the...

Try it at home: How to brew your own beer and famous brewers

by Maggie | Sep 1, 2020 | Food & Drink Features

While a good pint was once something reserved for the pub, today brewing has become more fashionable and all over the country local taste-makers have been coming up with their own special blends of ale and cider to enjoy. If you’re something of a craft beer aficionado...