The A-Z of Fairtrade: Part 1
The first Annual Fairtrade Fortnight was back in 1995 and was marked by Justino Peck, a cocoa farmer from Belize, touring the country. The theme for this year is “Make it Happen – Choose...
Category: Food & drink
The transforming power of chocolate.
Sophi Tranchell, Managing Director of the biggest Fairtrade chocolate company in the UK, talks to Ethical Superstore about her hopes for the financial crisis to transform businesses for the better; competing in a market...
Groundhog Day
Today is Groundhog Day, the annual holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on which, it is said, if a groundhog emerges from its burrow and fails to see its shadow because the...
Cupboard love?
Looking around the cupboards in the house I share with three friends, it seems the current economic crisis is really hitting home. While the shelves are still just as well stocked as ever, where...
Make it Happen – Choose Fairtrade
With Fairtrade Fortnight less than four weeks away, Ethical Superstore talks to everyone’s favourite newsreader George Alagiah about getting active for Fairtrade; ethics during the credit crunch and his hopes for the future of...
Ethical SOUPerStore: The Verdict
Who ever said there is no such thing as a free lunch had obviously never thought of Soup Club! If you’ve been keeping up to date with last week’s Soup Challenge here at Ethical...
After a ‘SOUPER’ week will lunchtimes ever be the same?
I question whether or not my lunches will ever be the same after last week’s cook-a-thon. For five consecutive work days me and four of my ambitious colleagues set out to cook up a...
Ethical Soup-er Store Finale!
With the pressure firmly on, it was my turn to step up to the (hot)plate and deliver a bowl of super soup. Although I fancy myself as a bit of a budding Jamie Oliver...
Ethical Soup-er Store Challenge – Day 3
So, day three of the EthicalSoup-erStore Soup Challenge, and the task falls to me to prepare the lunchtime broth. Now, I’ve made soup before, but I like soups to be thick and chunky, and...
The Morrocan Twist
As the second ‘Souper cook’ to take part in this weeks lunch time soup challenge the bar had been well and truly set with John’s carrot and coriander number. It had set the bar...