produce
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Influencers Are Bad at Washing Produce
Across all of social media, I keep encountering a certain brand of annoying influencer behaviour. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok — all are packed with videos that feature someone (usually a white woman) subjecting fruits and vegetables to an elaborate cleaning and repackaging process, supposedly immediately upon arriving home with them from the grocery store. Not only…
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How to Choose, Store and Eat Grapes
For a large portion of the world, it is grape season, a vastly underrated fruit season. Whether you’re partaking of the season’s more unusual grape offerings or simply enjoying a standard green table grape, you should pick, wash, and store them with care to maximise their lifespan, and your enjoyment while eating them.
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Celery Root Is The Key To This Fresh, Vibrant Coleslaw
All photos by Thomas Lawn. There’s a certain beauty to the inside of a red cabbage or a head of romanesco, but as a group, root vegetables aren’t much to look at. Celery root – celeriac if you’re posh – is far and away the ugliest of the bunch, and it’s also my favourite root…
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Low-Fat Avocados Aren’t New, But They Are Kind Of Pointless
2Photo by Kjokkenutstyr Net A Spanish fruit company is leading people to believe that they “invented” a low-fat avocado which they are calling “Avocado Light.” This, however — as the kids say — is “already a thing.”