slow food Archive

  • Nigel Slater's sticky pork ribs

    Sticky Pork Ribs

    I really wanted to share a pork recipe this week. Humanely raised pork is in the news at the moment since Coles supermarkets announced plans to source pork only from farms that don’t use sow stalls. I think it is interesting that themes like humane...

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  • Chicken feet at a hong kong market

    Nine ways to use home made chicken stock

    I saw chicken stock being sold for $9.00 for 500 mls the other day, almost the cost of a whole chicken. Which is spectacular when you think about how it is made. Chicken stock can be made with those parts of the chicken you normally...

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  • Mushroom risotto

    Mushroom risotto

    Risotto is one of those dishes that can be very, very good, or very, very bad. At it’s best it’s creamy with a slight bite to the grains of rice. At it’s worst, it’s a claggy lump, or even worse, a kind of soup with...

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  • empanada with beef filling

    Empanadas with Beef

    You’ll always remember your first empanada. We had just arrived in Santiago, the capital of Chile, after a twenty hour bus trip and we were starving. Santiago was the first truly big city we’d been in since leaving Miami four months before, with backpacks and...

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  • Reusable coffee cup, croissant and cloth napkin

    Five super simple ways to eat greener without changing your lifestyle

    Broccoli? Kale? Peas? Your mother was right. Green vegetables are good for you, but that’s not really what I mean by eating green. I’m talking about eating ethically, about eating with an awareness of how our diet is impacting on our body, our community and...

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