The power of the Mushroom
Did you know that the common white button mushroom has stronger immune-boosting effects than more exotic fungi such as oyster and shiitake mushrooms?
Food facts
Cool as a Cauliflower
How cool is your cauliflower? Find out the facts and health benefits behind this popular vegetable, also how to choose and store to get the best from your veg.
About Ginger
Ginger comes in many forms including fresh, dried, pickled, preserved, crystallized (or candied), and powdered or ground, and it has a variety of uses both medicinal and cullinary.
About asparagus
A truly versatile vegetable that makes a delicious lunch, dinner and even breakfast! Asparagus was first cultivated 2000 years ago in the Mediterranean and Asia Minor. The Greeks and Romans loved asparagus for its flavor, texture, and medicinal qualities. Roman emperors were so fond of asparagus that they kept special boats for the purpose of [...]
About potatoes
A member of the nightshade family, potatoes are the world’s most widely grown tuber crop. Peru, as the native area of origin for potatoes, is home to a wide range of more than 4,200 varieties. Potatoes come in all shapes and sizes and the skin colours can range from brown, yellow, pink, red, and purple [...]
Flavoursome fennel
Click here for recipes Other names: Common Fennel, Florence Fennel, Large Fennel, Sweet Fennel, Wild Fennel, Large Cumin, Sweet Cumin French: fenouil, German: fenchel, Greek: marathon, Italian: finocchio, Spanish: hinojo, Chinese: wooi heung, Indian: barisaunf, madhurika, sonf, Indonesian: adas, Malaysian: jintan manis Although fennel is most often associated with Italian cooking, its origins date back [...]
It’s all in the aubergines
Click here for recipesIts common name comes from Sanskrit, vatin-ganah, which translates as the ‘anti-flatulence vegetable’, the aubergine was considered helpful against production of intestinal gas. Vatin-ganah became badin-gan in Persian, then al-badindjan in Arabic, alberginia in Catalan and finally aubergine in French. The English acquired this term in the late 18th century when it [...]
Game on!
The word game refers to birds and mammals that are hunted for sport and for the table. Only a small proportion of game is truely wild. The two most popular game birds, pheasant and partridge, are bred and raised for the first few weeks in what are effectively fairly intensive poultry rearing systems. The birds [...]
Any one for squash?
Squashes are four species of the genus Cucurbita, also called pumpkins and marrows depending on variety or the nationality of the speaker. Squashes are categorized as summer squash or winter squash, depending on when they are harvested. Summer squashes, including young vegetable marrows (such as zucchini [also known as courgette], pattypan and yellow crookneck) are [...]
Jerusalem Artichokes (Sunchokes)
The Jerusalem artichoke, also called the sunroot or sunchoke, is a flowering plant native to North America, grown for its tuber, which is used as a root vegetable.The Jerusalem artichoke has absolutely nothing to do with Jerusalem, and little to do with true artichokes. When it was first discovered, it was called Girasole, which is [...]
