Joanna Blythman

Award-winning investigative food journalist Joanna Blythman discusses the horrifying impact the import of US food might have on the UK supply chain. At Farmison & Co we are always free-range, ethical, and support traditional husbandry....

Award-winning investigative food journalist Joanna Blythman is a highly influential and authoritative commentator on the British food chain, winning countless awards for her ground breaking books and was most recently awarded Guild Food Writers Food...

Is eating red meat a life shortening habit? You might be asking yourself this question following the widely reported study from the Harvard School of Public Health, published recently in the Archives of Internal Medicine, which appeared to...

When the first new season English asparagus comes on stream, you know that summer is on the way. There's something wonderfully cheering about the arrival of the first green spears from the Vale of Evesham, East Anglia and Cambridgeshire. Asparagus...

Few sights are more enticing than a well composed cheeseboard, one that juxtaposes wedges, rounds, ovals and logs, offers different colours to please the eye, a variety of textures to please the tongue, a cheeseboard with flavour contrasts...

Cook your own food from scratch Supermarkets tell us that we are 'time-poor/cash-rich', and encourage us to buy their ready-made convenience foods. These foods are generally joyless to eat, and particularly poor value for...

When supermarkets began taking control of Britain's shopping basket in the late Eighties and Nineties, many of our traditional food treasures seemed doomed for extinction. Supermarkets weren't interested in small amounts of regional, local...

When the nights draw in, leaves fall and temperatures drop, it's the perfect time for putting lamb on the menu. What with all the annual brouhaha that surrounds the arrival of new season's lamb in April and May, you'd be forgiven for getting the...

Normally, I'm the opposite of an internet shopper. To be frank, I can't remember ever buying food online, except as a present to send to a friend. For all I've surfed food home delivery sites and drooled over the product descriptions and pictures,...