Sustainable Seafood
Greenpeace released a new article in the US earlier this week. This time, they’re looking at supermarkets and fish. This article on the Boston Times’ Green Blog suggests that U.S. supermarkets are not doing...
Category: Food & drink
FSC certified “green” charcoal cuts CO2 emmissions by 85%
It’s hot hot hot. Literally . . . and it’s just about to arrive at Ethical Superstore. It’s the charcoal you need for some proper green grillin’ this summer. It’s that time of year...
Black Gold – UK TV Premiere, Tonight, More4
It is now impossible to walk down the high street or through a shopping mall without seeing the mark made by multinational coffee companies, which have in recent years made coffee the most valuable...
The Chocolate Challenge
No, it is not a competition to see who can eat the most chocolate biscuits during an episode of Eastenders. Nor who can name the most different types of chocolate bar on our supermarket...
Black Gold – Out now to buy on DVD
Black Gold , the movie highlighting the plight of Ethiopian coffee growers, is now out to buy on DVD. We’ve blogged about it a couple of times, but you can read Vic’s in depth...
Whole Pumpkin Baked with Cream
Fresh from River Cottage, Hugh Fearnley–Whittingstall cooks up a seasonal pumpkin recipe perfect for those chilly autumn nights. Well, autumn looks like it’s finally arrived with a vengeance. Walking into work this morning I...
Divine Delights – Apricots
These might be the best invention ever. Take some delicious Divine Dark Chocolate and coat whole, dried apricots in it. Shazam! Dried whole apricots, richly covered in Divine dark chocolate. These really have to...
Is Honey Good for You?
It’s been eulogised in holy scriptures, but is honey actually good for you? Fig 1: Apis mellifera, the Western or European honey bee © All rights reserved, Lord V1 Honey has been eulogized in...
Friday chocolate-o-rama!
Mmmmmm chocolate. New arrival at Ethical Superstore this week is Green & Black’s organic cherry chocolate. Did you know? Chocolate was created by the Mesoamerican civilization, and cultivated by Mayans and Aztecs. The word...
Black Gold Problem: Be Part of the Solution
This movie documents a simply, unfair story – 2 billion cups of coffee are drunk every day in the £40 billion world coffee market, yet only a handful of powerful corporations including Kraft, Nestle,...