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A recipe with a difference – Terrone Arabica coffee soap

A recipe with a difference – Terrone Arabica coffee soap

An unusual recipe and not one for eating… A few years ago, after a trip to Borneo, I started boycotting palm oil in food and cosmetics and generally in anything it is found because seeing the destruction of what used to be rain forest for miles and miles and seeing these beautiful and poor orangutans in the rehabilitation centre at Sepilok was simply shocking. Shortly after, I started making my own soap too, first easy melt and pour things which…

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A meal at H.En, Islington

A meal at H.En, Islington

***this restaurant has since closed down*** Since a fairly shocking TV programme by chef and eco warrior Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall a few years ago, we have stopped buying and eating battery chicken and eggs. It is not that easy to eat out and find out where the chicken comes from and if it is effectively free range, unless we are in high end establishments that really care for their products and sourcing. The opening of H.en in Isligton therefore caught my…

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A meal at Forgotten Feast, FoodCycle

A meal at Forgotten Feast, FoodCycle

FareShare warehouse A few weeks ago Raffaella Baruzzo and I met, when she donated a gorgeous hamper of chocolates to my work raffle we held in support of MCS. As we talked about charitable causes, she mentioned one called FoodCycle. I had not heard of them, but I was familiar with a similar concept, FareShare. Volunteering at their Bermondsey warehouse some time ago, I was shocked to see the amount and the quality of the ‘surplus’ food they receive from…

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