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    Essential Italian Cooking with La Cucina Caldesi

    My name begins with N, but I’m no Nigella in the kitchen. So when I received an invite to spend the day, with London’s only Italian cookery school  learning the basic Italian essential receipes, I was more than a bit nervous. When I turned up early on sunday morning, at…

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    The Periodic Food Shop

    Time for the weekly food shop. We all know the story, down to the local supermarket, oooh mangoes 2-4-£1, beef half price and milk £1 for 4 litres! Okay foody environmental and ethical issues have been brought to light in the media recently, with numerous angles to consider. Air miles…