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Food for London: ‘Serving a food-waste feast to the homeless? It’s obvious’ Evening Standard
It was two years ago when dietitian Hannah Style walked into her local Sainsbury’s in Kilburn and asked to speak to the manager. “Give me all your groceries that are going in the bin, all your misshapen vegetables and all the fresh food you haven’t sold and I will use it to feed the homeless,” […]
Bittersweet Salad
Recipe courtesy of Yotam Ottlolenghi, taken from Plenty (Ebury Press, £26), an exclusive collection of vegetarian recipes.
Is Kosher Meat Always Moral? Asks Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
My grandfather was a butcher. And though he has long since passed, I recall his passion for service and his love of animals, even though he thought that his obligation to the world was to use their flesh as food. The juxtaposition of a benign, kindly man flaying the flesh of an animal, their blood […]
‘Fake’ fur being sold on British high street is actually from cats, rabbits, and raccoon dogs, investigation reveals
“Fake” fur being sold on the high street is actually from cats, raccoon dogs and rabbits, an investigation has found. Items bought from popular stores Missguided and House of Fraser, which were labelled as faux fur, were found to be real after tests by a fibres expert. Sky News found that a pair of gloves […]
Sweetcorn shakshuka
Recipe courtesy of Ori Shavit. Ori is a food journalist, blogger and animal rights campaigner. She publishes recipes on her blog vegansontop.com, teaches vegan cooking classes and promotes veganism in Israel. You can read her ‘My Life as a Vegan’ interview by clicking here.
Are veg restaurants kosher?
JVS Trustee Dan Jacobs surveys the issues around eating out at non-kosher veg eateries. The UK is blessed with a multitude of great quality vegetarian and veganrestaurants. It begs the question; do we as vegetarian / vegan Jews needto be concerned about the kashrut (the body of Jewish religious laws concerning the suitability of food) […]