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Smaller chocolate and competitive paternalism.

Tim Worstall is irate because the Government appears to be suggesting that chocolate is sold in smaller sizes to tackle the obesity ‘crisis’.
He said that surveys and food production statistics suggested that total calorie intakes had not increased.
So, err, if calorie intake has not increased, it isn’t increased calorie intake causing the problem. It’s reduced […]

Do we really need cows?

I don’t eat much meat these days, not out of any moral objection, but mainly for health reasons. I also prefer food of better quality and good quality meat costs. If I had no choice of meat but for the water-injected mass-market dross that emerges from supermarket shelves, then I might even object to […]

What to do with halibut

My wife and I are extremely keen cooks and love to entertain. Presently we’ve been having numerous friends over prior to Baby Boot’s arrival and of course the challenge is to keep it interesting and varied.
So, Friday night we had halibut bourgignon. An odd dish you might think, and our french fishmonger certainly thought so, […]