Tabled

Food stories (sometimes indigestible) that might change the way you eat, the history of ingredients, and travel tales about unexpected meals, with recipes.

By Julia Watson

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Tabled

Bottoms up but a clear head

Alcohol drinking is in decline. The search is on for Alcohol-Free spirits worth a cocktail. A recipe for home-made Crème de Cassis

Despite access to the countryside growing up, I never gave thought to where meals came from. Who owns the world's farmland?

Jun 17•Julia Watson