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• Comment on Mushrooms without fear: 9 steps to avoid poisoning yourself by neil mahler
  on Sep 26, 2010
  A very apt comment. Even eating shop fungi which are past their sale by date pose the same risks. Eating too many of a new type of wild fungi - say Wood Blewits, can give you a bad case of diarrhoea. It has not been proven, but eating Chicken of the...
• Comment on Cherry plums: a promise fulfilled by helen
  on Sep 7, 2010
  i believe i have a cherry plum tree in my garden but nobody has mentioned anything about barbs on it. my tree has hard sharp barbs on the trunk and down the branches, but the fruit are the same as the ones on a cherry plum. the barbs are not as frequ...
• Comment on Cherry plums: a promise fulfilled by emmanooka
  on Aug 28, 2010
  I have just found a bunch of these trees growing near Buttermere in the lake district and was drawn to the masses of ripe fruit. I collected 3.5 pounds of them and made jam as per a plum jam recipe. Painstaking pulling out all the seeds, but result w...
• Comment on Cherry plums: a promise fulfilled by Lorna Grace Vibert
  on Aug 26, 2010
  Hi, a friend gave me a bagful of the yellow ones this week; I had never heard of them before. We are in Rutland. Apparently there are quite a lot around here and they are also known as Mirabelles. she had made them into a tart using shortcrust pastry...
• Comment on Cherry plums: a promise fulfilled by Vic Grubb
  on Aug 7, 2010
  I found some trees outside my flat in Taunton, Somerset, UK. After gathering a good bowlful of the red variety I made a Pie with sweetcrust pastry and it was delicious with a spot of custard. Out walking recently found a tree with the yellow variety,...
• Comment on Eat British Cherries now! (if it’s July) by Corrina Gordon-Barne
  on Jul 17, 2010
  Yes! We spotted our neighbour picking cherries from a tree on our road and wandered over to ask whose it was. Turns out it's actually under the council's stewardship and doesn't belong to any particular resident - so we can all eat from it whenever...
• Comment on Rapeseed, a golden oil from yellow fields by Rapeseed Oil, a good alternative? | RealEpicurean.com
  on May 15, 2010
  [...] real benefit to this oil though it its versatility; it has a smoke point of around 230 degrees (see here) compared with just 190 degrees c (375f) for extra virgin olive oil (210c / 410f for the refined), [...]...
• Comment on Alexanders: a forgotten vegetable by Paulie L
  on Apr 27, 2010
  Love this article!! Love Wild Food! You can create loas of amazing recipes from flavours forgotten from ingredients like Alexanders. It definitley has a place in modern British Cooking. Wild food is organic, its not genetically modified, the food mil...
• Comment on Alexanders: a forgotten vegetable by Naomi
  on Apr 23, 2010
  Interesting article. We have these growing everywhere in our garden (south east Kent). I did try cooking some of the stalks but I think they taste terrible, they smell delicious when freshly cut however.
• Comment on Mysterious sheds at the heart of our food supply by Rob
  on Jan 10, 2010
  After a bit of digging around I've worked out that the RDC shown in the BBC clip is: Wincanton For Somerfield RDC Elton Head Road, Lea Green, ST HELENS, WA9 5AX You can see it here.

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