How do I make sauerkraut? I am asked this quite a lot. Probably because I am always recommending that everyone eats it! Sauerkraut is German for ‘soured cabbage’. The beneficial bacteria in this relish do turn the plain green vegetable into an interesting, slightly sour, tangy flavour. It’s amazing! Everybody wants to make raw sauerkraut these days, so lets get started!
The low-fat era is over! We now know that the type of fat we eat is more important than how much fat we eat. One place where my clients often get stuck is that they like the convenience of margarine, being able to spread it straight from the fridge. Ingeniously Coco Olive Spread solves this problem, and it is so easy to make too ….
I spent the spring at Selfridges Food Hall this year. In May and June Selfridges celebrated all definitions of beauty with one of their largest campaign of the year, 
The recent international Detox Summit highlighted the dramatic increases in the amount of toxins residing in our environment and advised us to fully optimise our internal detoxification pathways in order to handle this as efficiently as we possibly can. Detoxification has become not merely a weekend activity, but a way of life in the modern world.
A warming fish soup, unusual and aromatic with added fennel and grated sweet potato. Perfect for batch cooking, double up and have two pots on the go at once. This then makes 12 portions that can then be frozen, taken to work in a flask or defrost as needed.
The most extensive analysis ever of nutrient content in organic vs conventionally-produced foods has just been published in the British Journal of Nutrition. It shows that organic crops are much higher in antioxidants and lower in toxic heavy metals. Read More
The vegan organisation, inSpiral, recently asked me to write an article for them on the 
This yummy recipe is low FODMAP diet friendly and makes a hearty afternoon pick-me up treat. If you can go the extra step to freshly grind your own cinnamon you will really notice the difference. I’m very interested in the Low FODMAP approach because of the links between asthma and gut health.
On Tuesday 20th May I will be teaching Fermented Foods (2) as part of the programme, 
I can’t wait to see this film! So many leading voices in cutting-edge nutrition, speaking together about issues that really matter.
Why is Nutrigenomics such an exciting and emerging health topic? Because we all have slightly different genetic variations – and these can change the extent to which different foods or nutrients can be helpful or harmful to us as individuals. These gene variations change our susceptibility to different diseases and can make certain dietary changes dramatically more important for one person than another.
I wrote this blog article for my aunties and uncles after listening to the 
In nearly every nutrition seminar I have been to recently ‘bone broth’ or stock is being recommended for its nutritional properties, to help with healing of the gut lining and many other conditions. This hot drink / base for soups is rich in gelatine, a good source of the amino acids, 
This year in January, May and October my colleague, Aleksandra, and I will be teaching a class on ‘Food Fermentation’, for beneficial bacteria, as part of the six week evening programme, Tags
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