Edmunds Cocktail are carving a niche in the Market Place.

Tom Mayes – creator and owner – appeared with his colleague with a tantalising stand at Olympia to trade in his delicious range of cocktails produced by his two year old company….EdmundsCocktails.co.uk For each bottle or box bought the tree planting company ECOLOGI plants a tree somewhere around the world as a gesture towards climate…

Stimulating high life of Opium, Caffeine and Mescaline

StHumans rely on plants to change consciousness to stimulate calm, or completely after the qualities of our mental experience. Michael Pollen explores three very different drugs – Opium, caffeine and mescaline and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief, exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around…

All that glitters is not gold

Only in New York you can indulge  in gold dusted French fries. Serendipty3 in Manhattan, New York recently made it to the Guinness World Records  by cooking up the ultimate cheesy French fries – Crème de la Crème Pomme Frites valued at $200 USD, by creative chef Joe Calderone, and Corporate executive chef. Fredrick Schoen-Kiewert…

Spoon full of sugar could cost lot more

Nany-state scheme would cost shoppers £4.8billion a year according to John O’Connell head of the  Taxpayer’s alliance who said “ This is yet another case of middle-class meddling that will hit the poorest families hardest”. The processed food market is valued £200 billion and the food and drink service sector is close to 70 billion.…

Humans can’t digest grass

Financial Times’, chief features writer, Henry Mance, a vegan, would very much like you to be, too. His argument why lies at the centre of How to Love Animals, is challenging and funny. For some it could prompt moral reasons  that those of us who love animals, but also profit from their  suffering cravenly managed…

London’s oldest pub

Lazenby Court in Covent Garden used to lead a small courtyard surrounded by houses, but the rebuilding of the area in the 1860s to extend Hart Street now renamed Floral Street. The narrow passage and the famous Lamb and Flag Pub. In Tudor times, when all around here were still fields, the building is actually…

Food revolution to tackle additives and addiction

Pickled cucumbers were dyed green with copper-based dyes,  which most people failed to realise that the green copper dyes were extremely poisonous, in Victorian England. Fertilizer produced by sucking nitrogen out of the air now sustains about half the population of the globe, as farmers worldwide depend on the data spewing from 160 environmental satellite…

Brick Lane’s walker-friendly al fresco dining hub?

Brick Lane in London’s Bethnal Green, and Whitechapel, famous for Bangladeshi-Sylheti community associated with authentic highly rated food, is going to be pedestrianised in an effort to cut down on Toxic traffic fumes, and to allow outdoor dining and give  20, 000 daily visitors curry house of their choice. In the 17th century, skilled weaver…

UK’s only legal brothel

A claim made by a 1999 BBC documentary, By Trafalgar Square you will find what is supposedly the UK’s only legal brothel, Silver Cross pub on Whitehall. It was first licensed and opened as a pub in 1674 known as ” The Garter”, prior to this it had been a brothel with a royal license…

Organic spices empowered by Women

India, the world’s largest producer of consumer and exporter of spices, produces 75 of the 109 varieties of spices listed in the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) exported £2.64bn worth of spices in 2020 alone. Orco (organic condiments), New-Delhi-based claims to produce hand-round organic and natural spices, founded by Pragya and marketed by her daughter…