High in fat and with a carbon footprint to match, cow’s milk is neither the greenest or healthiest milk available. So what are the alternatives? Here are 10 of the best
… 2011 Ethical Living Milk Soya Food And Drink Rice Goat Buffalo Food And Farming … a hard-to-grow crop, are the main ingredient. Rice Milk Rice milk is the most hypoallergenic of all …
Whether it’s because of GM or gluten; if you’re giving wheat the chop, there’s an eco-friendly alternative to suit you
… Food And Farming Rothamsted Research Monsanto Rice Gram Millet Cassava Tapioca holding.jpg … friendly. The stand-outs: buckwheat and rice Ignore the deceptively wheaty name; … flour is fantastic.’ Not just for stir-fries, rice is available in flour form as well, and …
Spices don't simply add flavour to your food - they also aid digestion, protect against bacteria and prevent a range of illnesses
… white seeds to use, lightly crushed, in rice dishes, curries and meat stews. Freshly … be infused in milk to make a spicy custard or rice pudding. Cinnamon is a first-class … buttered toast and can be used to spice up rice or milk puddings. Try using a cinnamon …
Want to give up sugar while still indulging your sweet tooth? Mark Briggs rounds up 10 natural alternatives
… at Holos Foods, www.holosfoods.com Brown Rice Syrup Made from boiling brown rice, the syrup is gluten and wheat free. More … does transfer many of the benefits of brown rice to the eater (and without the 25-minute …
A new photographic exhibition - Made in Coorg - looks at what life is like for the coffee growers of the Coorg district of southern India, where the highly fertile land is increasingly sought after for larger plantations and tourism projects
… lives on a small plantation growing coffee, rice and spices near Kalluru, a tiny village … sometimes as little as 1kg at a time. The price of land in Coorg is rising quickly due to … easily in it, most notably coffee, but also rice, black pepper and cardamoms. In recent …
Move over Delia, Tracey Smith tells us how to bake no-fuss fabulous flatbread, hand made with minimal ingredients, including leftovers.
… I found handfuls of leftover cooked, cooled rice and pasta to be a thrifty … 1 cup of cooked, cooled, chopped pasta or rice (including peas/corn/etc) 5 cups of plain …
I’m sitting opposite the large Coca-Cola bottling plant next to the village of Plachimada in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Plachimada is a farming village of about 800 families, many of them tribal. The ugly factory looks rather out of place in such a beautiful setting, the Western Ghats mountains clearly visible in the distance.
… district, Chittur taluk, was known as the rice bowl of Kerala. We had the most fertile … in the state. But now the ground is dry, rice and coconut harvests across the taluk …
A child’s food allergies can be terrifying in the first instance, but they shouldn’t mean being sentenced to a lifetime of unexciting food. Matilda Lee offers suggestions for a healthy, tasty, non-allergenic diet
… red kidney beans, figs, apricots. Try Rice Dream’s rice milk with added calcium, oat milk or … almond milk. Grains : include amaranth, brown rice, cornmeal, oatmeal, quinoa. Omega-3 : …
The Danes might not like it much but marmite is one British institution that’s worth keeping. Here's why, love it or hate it, marmite is an eco-friendly essential
… other foods the B vitamins occur in are brown rice, whole wheat, molasses and soya beans, …
Ladakh is framed by the Karakoram mountains to the north and the Himalayas to the south. Yet even in this remote environment the forces of global consumerism are intruding. Nicola Graydon reports on the locals' inspiring defence of their culture
… the story is very different. Subsidised rice, sugar, wheat and other foodstuffs, … diet and, more importantly, undercutting the price of locally harvested produce. A … flour, for instance, sells for half the price of local flour and is destroying the …
Haiti is a failed state: one of those places that just can’t seem to get its act together, despite the best efforts of benevolent Western powers. Or so the mainstream media would have you believe. Yet history tells us a more complicated story.
… minister. Consequently, import tariffs on rice were eliminated, which led to a massive increase in subsidised US rice exports to Haiti and the devastation of Haitian rice growers. The US also demanded the right …
From the Atkins to the Dukan, protein-based diets are big news in the celebrity world. But what effect is our love affair with meat, fish and cheese having on the environment?
… vegetables. Small amounts of bread, cereals, rice, fruit, salad and vegetables are slowly …
Wealthy countries and agribusiness want farmland, poorer countries need capital – but what happens to the locals? By Martin Large and Neil Ravenscroft
… Large and Neil Ravenscroft Rising food prices, the drive for food security, biofuels … The corporations sell the crops at high prices to the rich north. The result is that … plans for acquiring 500,000ha of basmati rice land in Indonesia. Middle Eastern states …
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis.
… What really makes your mind up though is the price of the flight – as little as £4.50. For … is still dependent on the river (for growing rice, fishing and transportation), walls in … and the flow of fresh water permits the rice cultivation. Its levels are already …
As the world’s poorest countries sink further and further into debt, Western corporations grow fat from government-backed projects that fuel conflicts, harm the environment and have built-in kickbacks.
… ‘Ex-Im can be a powerful ally,’ Edmund B Rice, president of the US corporate lobbying … people. Indeed, it is commonplace for the prices of projects that receive ECA funding to …
Since colonising Tibet in 1959, China has ripped out virgin forests, dug up minerals and metals, and dumped nuclear waste with little regard for the fragile ecology of the Tibetan plateau.
… the dams have a profound impact on the rice growers and fishermen of downstream …
‘This is the Indian dream!’ shouts Mohit, clutching a tattered plastic bag as he joins the impatient throng gathering at Hall A of the Auto Expo in New Delhi. Around us more than 100,000 Indians are aggressively jostling for space and a precious glimpse of the £1,200 Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car. It is a vehicle that, put simply, costs less than the optional DVD player on the new Lexus LX470 SUV.
… Small wonder since the Nano costs half the price of the cheapest car currently on the … at no more than 100,000 rupees ‘the new price point translates into a 65 per cent … for the global auto industry. As petrol prices continue to rise, consumer tastes around …