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Recipe For Axel’s Vegan Mung Bean And Tofu Soup
This week is National Vegetarian Week and we have been enjoying new and wonderful vegetarian recipes including Sally’s new recipes for Moroccan Vegetable Stew and Vegetable Fajitas that we have added...
View ArticleCharities, The Law And Unintended Consequences
As some of you know, we have been looking as a socially committed but small business to give support to a charity, either Practical Action or Water Aid, and link that back to sales via the web site as...
View ArticleIs There Any Need For Sustainability?
I have recently read Tim Jackson’s “Prosperity Without Growth – Economics for a Finite Planet“. It proposes that we refocus how we manage our economies to take into account the limits on the earth,...
View ArticleSustainability and some final thoughts
In the end, politics, economics and perhaps even environmentalism are practical matters dressed up as intellectual theory, following on from my previous blog on the theory behind sustainability....
View ArticleWhat Is Not?
E = mc2 (and so m=E/c2) is the iconic scientific equation. But what happens if you put E = 0, or m = 0, into the equations. In the first, the answer becomes E = 0 and also in the second m = 0. In...
View ArticleLife So Material
“For too long we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community value in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product now is over 800 billion dollars a year, but...
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Pretty Little Rich Cake
It was Sophie’s birthday the other day. We went out en famille for a Chinese meal at Sweet Basil in Kirk Hammerton. Sophie wanted a strawberry cake, so I felt like trying something a bit...
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Cooking With A Wonderbag
Sophie came across the Wonderbag on the radio and then The Guardian, so one arrived several weeks thereafter. Basically, a Wonderbag is a modern and green take on the slow cooker and that you find in...
View ArticleAxel’s and Sophie’s quirky guide to running a small business
Here’s our list of things we have learnt over the last 10 years of running a small start-up and a guide to the way we do business. It’s all rather homespun and certainly will never find its way into...
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Cinnamongate: is cinnamon safe to eat?
We regularly get asked questions about the safety of cinnamon, e.g. “is cinnamon safe to consume?” or “how much coumarin is there in Steenbergs cinnamon?” There’s a lot of chatter about this issue in...
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