The phrase ‘comfort food’ immediately brings to mind feelings, memories and tastes. Whether it’s your mum’s shepherd’s pie on a cold day, chocolate when you’re feeling sad, or chicken soup when you’re ill, we all have those foods that bring us comfort. For me, it’s a roast dinner on a Sunday, a veggie lasagne, or…
Deputy Editors' Column
2020 has not gone well, but this ragu recipe will
I originally wrote this editorial about how great my life was going despite how awful 2020 has been. Well, that dropped like the New York Yankees’ win possibility in the 11th inning of the 1995 American League Division Series. So, now I have to pull a 180 and write about something else. I considered writing…
#BLM, Travel
Five African cuisines you should try
African cuisine is delicious but for some reason hasn’t quite received as much praise it deserves. You can wander around the streets of Norwich and find countless restaurants suited to any taste bud, yet there is a gaping void that must be filled with these truly fantastic flavours. I’ve picked out some of my top…
Features
The Positive Power of Youtubers
The BBC does most things well. My father is a proud lifelong employee having travelled the globe on behalf of the public broadcaster. But the newly released documentary “The Restaurant That Burns Off Calories” – featuring actress Zoe Williams and chef Fred Sirieix – embodies everything wrong about our values as well as the organisations…
Music, Venue
I give you Music – the 4th wise gift at Christmas
Christmas is usually centred around three big things: food, company and presents, a scenario that will be familiar to families across the country. But if there is one huge thing in the atmosphere at this time of year, it is of course music. A typical Christmas morning, for me, is to turn the nob on…
Science
UEA is becoming hedgehog friendly
The Hedgehog Friendly Campus initiative is a national scheme run by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society designed to help universities become hedgehog friendly. Hedgehogs have declined in numbers by around a third since 2000. It is believed that since the 1950s, U.K. hedgehog population has diminished from 30 million down to around one million today….
Science
The extinction of Africa’s plants
According to a new assessment by the French National Institute of Sustainable Development, over a third of tropical African plants are on the verge of extinction. Deforestation, population growth and climate change are happening at an alarming rate and these factors are posing a very real threat to Africa’s trees, shrubs, herbs and woody vines….
Travel
Are big brands impeding on local cuisines?
When I was younger, my parents had a rule on family holidays that we could not eat at McDonald’s or Starbucks when we were away. A way of preserving the cultural experiences of our trips, this unfortunately didn’t always work. A late night McDonald’s after a delayed flight and a Starbucks early the morning after…
Travel
The delicacies and disasters of Swedish food
When one thinks of countries with strong food culture, Sweden is rarely the first one that comes to mind, or even the fifth. Yet, food is something important to us, as becomes evident during holidays when all we do is eat. But are all things we eat really that good? Absolutely not. Without further ado,…
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