Stories
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
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Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
Catalogue
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Brazil vegetable oils : oleaginous seeds and vegetable oils.
Date: 1939
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Oils for all occasions / Tesco.
Tesco (Firm)Date: 1993
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On the relative photogenic or illuminating value of vegetable, animal, and mineral oils, and coal gas / by Stevenson Macadam.
Date: 1872
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Hotpoint recommend Blue Band luxury margarine : made from pure blended vegetable oils : and here is 1/3 off your first lb. of Blue Band luxury margarine. Just hand voucher inside to your grocer / Van den Berghs Limited.
Van den Berghs & Jurgens.Date: [1963?]
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Remarks on the siruba, or, Native oil of laurel, its production, uses, &c. / by J. Hancock.
Date: 1830