How do you like your frappucino? Well, apart from whether to choose chocolate or green tea, it seems like there’s a growing number who don’t want their milky drinks to have any actual milk in them. According to Nielsen, a market research company which tracks food and drink sales, dairy free milk hit more than £136 million during 2010, compared with almost £103m in 2008 and £87 million in 2006. This change in consciousness has been noted…
Continue readingIf you’re familiar with Indian cuisine, you will probably already have used ghee – the golden, clarified butter with a slightly nutty aroma. Ghee is important throughout South Asia for use in cooking, religious ceremonies and medicine. In one form of Ayurvedic cleanse, the patient takes multiple doses of ghee each day, considered to purify the body, dissolve waste products and act as a powerful and penetrating form of nourishment due to its purity and…
Continue readingCows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china. – Charles Dickens Seems like everyone’s got the blues these days. Loneliness is becoming a social epidemic, and though there are many suggested cures (last weeks London Metro proposed comfort food), life doesn’t seem to be getting much easier for anyone. In last week’s Guardian on Sunday, reporter…
Continue readingIt doesn’t get much weirder than this: Richard Gray of the Telegraph recently reported that human genes have been introduced into 300 cows in scientists’ attempts to make give cow’s milk the same nutritious properties as human breast milk. Research director, Professor Ning Li stated that “The milk tastes stronger than normal milk. We aim to commercialize some research in this area in coming three years. For the ‘human-like milk’, 10 years or maybe more time…
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