National Spinach Day
Eat largely of spinage The twenty-sixth of March is National Spinach Day, a lead-in to talking about one of my … Continued
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Food & Drink
British Pudding Day
Pease pudding hot… Saturday 9 November marks British Pudding Day. It’s at the weekend, giving anyone who likes cooking the
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Pizza, Pasta, Parole
The ninth of February marks World Pizza Day. A day to celebrate that quintessentially Neapolitan dish which has become, er,
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Beer and skittles: beer-related words and phrases
Friday 4 August marks International Beer Day. Started in 2007, the Day honours the people who make and serve beer
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The sizzling vocabulary of the summer barbecue
It’s the middle of summer, and whether you spell it as barbecue, or barbeque or BBQ or Bar-B-Q, or simply
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National Picnic Week
Who doesn’t love a picnic? Eating is one of life’s great pleasures, second only to being outdoors and in contact
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Veg Power
‘Eat largely of spinach.’ recommended John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, in his best-selling 1747 Primitive Physick: An Easy and
Coffee Talk: the roots of the world’s favourite bean
Java. Bean juice. A cup of joe. Whatever you call it, coffee is arguably one of the most popular drinks
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Cheers! 4 unforgettable literary wines
Virginia Woolf once said, ‘language is wine upon the lips’, and we are very much inclined to agree. After all,
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