Recipes

Smoked chilli flakes are the secret ingredient for these delish chips. Recipe: Michael Van de Elzen Serves: 6 Time: 20 minutes My wife (and chef) Bee first started using this smoked chilli mixture to coat parsnips, then added them to a lentil salad which was pretty tasty. I’ve tweaked the recipe a few times and it always seems to work well so long as you have sweet chilli as the base. You can also add in soya sauce, miso paste, fresh chillies, or Thai fish sauce. If you like different colours, you can replace some (or all) of the kūmara...

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North Island-Powell River MP Rachel Blaney wants to take polystyrene out of Canada’s oceans. Blaney introduced a private member’s motion to the House of Commons urging the government to ban both expanded polystyrene (EPS) and extruded polystyrene (XPS) from floating structures like docks. “Research suggests that dock flotation foam is one of the leading causes of plastic pollution in Canada’s oceans, lakes, and rivers,” Blaney says. “When microparticles become part of the aquatic environment, they are consumed by fish, dolphins, whales, and birds. They can also work their way into the food system. This is a critical threat to the...

Here it is – the mammoth meatball. I bet you never expected we’d be here, but indeed, here we are: scientists have made a meatball from an extinct woolly mammoth. Let us explain. It’s all part of an experiment in the name of changing the way we view food, or meat, more specifically. Using advanced molecular engineering by Vow, an Australian cultured meat company, the experiment was unveiled at the Nemo Science Museum in the Netherlands on Tuesday. Why? Well, it’s a good question, but it seems the experts wanted to show how cultured meat could change the face of...

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