Eat to Beat disease: healing your body with food

Eat to Beat disease: healing your body with food

It’s a sobering fact that up to 95 percent of cancers are linked to environmental and lifestyle factors with 30 percent of cancer deaths linked to diet. The importance of reducing unhealthy fats, processed foods and meats, sugar and alcohol is well known. But how you...

Frazzled by Facebook

Practical hacks for protecting your privacy and your sanity. Social media is busily disrupting our communications habits and relationships. Thanks to Facebook we can now stay in constant contact with distant family members, school chums and hundreds of (so-called)...
Make your own perfect paneer

Make your own perfect paneer

On a trip of a life-time to India last year, I was lucky enough to take a cooking class with  formidable cook  and entrepreneur Shashi. Up some narrow stairs and beneath the Sunrise restaurant in the beautiful lake city of Udaipur, Shashi’s spotless kitchen is host to...
Nutty-seedy crackers: try these tasty Scandinavian treats

Nutty-seedy crackers: try these tasty Scandinavian treats

Looking for a savoury biscuit for snacking or your next cheese platter?  Want to avoid gluten, dairy, grains but baulking at the cost of expensive whole food versions at the health store?   Just want a yummy cracker that is not plastic packaged, filled with additives...