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Caviar, sometimes called black caviar, is a luxury delicacy, consisting of processed, salted, non-fertilized sturgeon roe. Roe or hard roe is the fully ripe internal overies or egg masses of fish. Beluga caviar is caviar consisting of the roe (or eggs) of the beluga sturgeon Huso huso.&n...

Indulge in oaty squares with fair-trade banana and melted chocolate….
Ingredients…
175g fair trade sugar
2 fair trade mashed bananas
25g fair trade sultanas
2 bars divine white chocolate (or other fair trade chocolate)
100g porridge oats
225g self raising flour
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Anyone that knows me knows I am a big fan of food. A very big fan! So when it came to researching being an “eco eater” I was more than happy to have a look. It was a shame to find out that the consumption of foods is responsible for most water use and contributes to land use...

Thailand’s Rice industry
Thailand is the biggest exporter of rice and all Jasmine rice in the UK is obtained from there. The back-breaking, restless, robotic experience of work in the blistering heat is ‘good fortune’ in many rice workers’ perceptions, as they feel so apprec...

Fair trade has been taking the world food market by storm, by buying and selling food it fairly enables everyone to get their fair share. One of these is chocolate, a necessity in many people’s lives. You may or may not know that chocolate originates from the vegetables cocoa beans...

There are several types of overfishing, all with the same effect. The fish of our seas are disappearing. The problem is that the fish are being trawled faster than they can reproduce, diminishing the numbers as the demand for seafood increases. Fish can take many years to reach maturity, allowi...
