by Alice | Apr 12, 2020 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Food
This is the story behind my new book, Meet your greens: Enliven your salads with herbal energetics. It’s about how to make amazing salads, but it’s also about a lot more than that. Meet Your Greens comes out of my lifelong interest in the different flavours of salad...
by Alice | Jan 22, 2020 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Food
The year I was 15, my father, Ralph, gave me for Christmas a small jar containing strange white curds. He said it was a yoghurt bug. But it wasn’t like any yoghurt bug I’d ever seen. It wasn’t the kind of present Dad usually gave me. He was great at choosing gifts for...
by Alice | Dec 10, 2018 | Ecology, Food
My favourite plant is the nettle. The European stinging nettle, Urtica dioica. There’s a nettle patch at the bottom of my garden. Nettles aren’t pretty or sculptural, unlike many other plants that are considered weeds. But they are interesting and very useful....
by Alice | May 27, 2018 | Alternative economics, Food, New Zealand culture
This is a post about local food. I love eating food grown in my region, the Waikato in New Zealand’s heartland. I don’t think local food is just an idealistic middle class fad, as some cynical commentators claim. But the local food economy is an interesting and...
by Alice | May 13, 2017 | Alternative economics, Ecology, Food, social wellbeing, textiles, Wellbeing
This weekend my ukulele group The Strumbles played at our local Trade Aid shop for World Fair Trade Day. Trade Aid is one of my favourite shops in Hamilton. It’s full of beautiful things and delicious fair trade food. It’s also a successful not-for-profit...
by Alice | Mar 14, 2017 | Ecology, Food, Wellbeing
Not all salt is created equal. In this post I investigate the myriad kinds of salt and what makes them different. I started researching because I wanted to know what salt is best – both from a “foodie” point of view, and also from a health point of view. I also wanted...
