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Spud Sunday: GM Spuds
“I despise patents.” So declared Cathal Garvey at the recent For Food’s Sake event on the future of food. Cathal is one of a new breed of so-called bio-hackers, which he explains as the use of...
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Spud Sunday: Potato Day Rides Again
Container planting of potatoes underway in the polytunnels at the Organic Centre March is here and that can mean one thing, and one thing only to a spud: that it’s time, once again, for the Organic...
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Spud Sunday: Swedish Spuds
“I’m a Swede, I never buy potatoes in Ireland.” So ran the subject line of an email I received a while back from a Swedish reader who was clearly very exercised by the all-too-frequent sight in of...
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Spud Sunday: Fear Of Spuds
See, the thing is that Europeans were generally suspicious of spuds in the early years after their arrival from the New World and, however hard it may be for me to imagine, a great many people were...
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Spud Sunday: Food Matters
Sometimes, eating your fill is not just about filling your belly. Though it may not be the first thing that springs to mind as you inhale a morning bowl of cornflakes or succumb to the salt and vinegar...
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Spud Sunday: Hold The Horses
They do say that every day’s a school day, and last Wednesday was a case in point. That was when we in Ireland and the U.K. learned all about an interesting new principle at work in our local food...
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Spud Sunday: It’s Complicated
There’s a section in journalist and food critic Jay Rayner’s new book, A Greedy Man in a Hungry World, which discusses the notion of comparative advantage. This is where, he explains, by dint of labour...
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Spud Sunday: 3rd World Spuds
We were chatting about potatoes in East Africa, as you do. “They call them Irish,” said Shane, who was manning the reception desk in Dublin’s Irish Aid Voluteering & Information Centre. I had...
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Spud Sunday: Super Mash
I do tire of spud-bashing. In the healthy eating context, I mean. All too often, potatoes end up on the wrong side of the whats-good-for-you conversation, as things that we need to eat less of, or seek...
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Spud Sunday: Sure Who’d Want To Be a Millionaire?
£1,000,000 Get a load of those zeroes, man. I’ll bet there aren’t many of us who would object to such a nicely rounded addition to their bank balance. Especially when all they would have to do in...
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Reconsider The Spud
Last month, I – as a blog, that is – turned seven. Fancy that. And while seven years might suggest, oh, a certain itchiness or an extended sojourn in Tibet, in spud years, I think of it as closer to...
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