EATING AND DRINKING
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Photo by Tara Shain.
Time for Feasting: Autumn Eats in Catalunya
The autumn months see Catalans doing some serious eating
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Catering or Private Chef? The Delicious Difference No One Tells You About
Catering has its charm… to a certain extent. But a private chef like Santi Font Moreno arrives with a plan, ideas, sharp knives and creativity that turns your dinner into a live show.
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Mahón Cheese: A Taste of Tradition
Mahón cheese: these box-shaped cheeses, with their distinctive rounded edges, fold-like markings and beautiful deep orange-gold rinds are one of the gastronomic jewels of the Balearic islands, and have long been so.
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Does Eating Cheese Before Bed Really Give You Nightmares?
Humans are diurnal creatures, meaning our body is primed to be asleep at night and awake during the day. Eating cheese before bed means we’re challenging the body with food at a time when it really doesn’t want to be eating.
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Harmful Chemicals Often Migrate Into Tinned Food
We have been preserving food in cans for decades, with one of its many virtues being that these metal containers can spend years in our pantries before going bad. This has traditionally led people to see cans as a safe way of preserving food.
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The dockside in Naples, a man is cooking snails in a pot over an open fire, while another man reads aloud from a book by Ariosto, 1800-1899. Image courtesy of Wellcome Collection, Public Domain.
From Peasant Fodder to Posh Fare: How Snails and Oysters Became Luxury Foods
Eating what many consider to be a slimy nuisance seems almost counter-intuitive, but consuming land snails has an ancient history, dating to the Palaeolithic period, some 30,000 years ago in eastern Spain.
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Our Ancestors Didn’t Eat 3 Meals a Day. So Why Do We?
How did we go from eating one or two main meals, to three? The answer may lie with the British Royal Navy.
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The "Sustainable" Cod in Your Shopping Basket May Be No Such Thing
Consumers could be unknowingly buying seafood from overfished stocks, or from regions where illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing is common, along with human rights abuses.
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Here’s Who Topped the Rankings in This Year’s Scorecard for Sustainable Chocolate
Despite the price of chocolate rising, these increases are often not passed on, leaving many cocoa farmers in extreme poverty. This is in addition to struggling with the impacts of climate change.
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Strong Headed: Garlic in Spanish Cuisine
Despite its bad press, garlic is an essential part of Spanish cuisine.
