Archive For May 2009

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth by Jonny Bowden – review

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth by Jonny Bowden – review

The author, Jonny Bowden, is a nutritionalist but is one of the few who has remained an independent thinker. He hasn’t nailed his colours to the mast of a particular Super Food; and he has refrained from saying that any particular ingredient should be avoided at all cost (apart from the infamous trans-fatty acids). Jonny…

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The Big Book of World Tapas by Julia Hartley – review

The Big Book of World Tapas by Julia Hartley – review

This book could have had a couple of different titles both of which would have been equally relevant – How to Cater Your Own Wedding (or at least your cousins’), or How to Throw a Cocktail Party Without Needing a Second Mortgage (assuming that you had already found a bank to give you the first…

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The Healthiest Meals on Earth by Jonny Bowden – review

The Healthiest Meals on Earth by Jonny Bowden – review

I have read (or tried to read) many a health food cookbook and some of them are a struggle. Lots of the food rests in that part of the colour spectrum that ranges all the way from beige to magnolia. Those ingredients that are promoted are often a bit too chewy (perhaps the action of…

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