The Real Food Blog

In nature the sun provides a complete spectrum of light frequencies, emitting all the colours of the rainbow including blue light. The big deal with natural sunlight is that the different light frequencies are balanced with each other and not isolated

Now take your computer screen, that is a very different story. The light being emitted from your screen is very heavy on the blue and the other colour frequencies needed to provide balance are lacking, especially the red. Red light is the major balancer for blue light. You could imagine this like comparing natural sunlight to your phone screen is like comparing a whole natural food with a processed food. Butter or margarine, what would you choose?

Traditional Craft-Made Soya Sauce  All of our Clearspring soya sauces are naturally brewed, regardless of whether they are labelled simply as soya sauce or they use the traditional Japanese names of shoyu (with wheat) or tamari (wheat-free) soya sauce. They are made to...

We now supply a range of Mangalitza pork products in our shop. The pork steaks are out of this world and the bacon is so special. We also have lardo, which is a cured pork fat that you slice and cook like bacon. Utterly fantastic! 

Quality black pudding used to be difficult to find as all blood was pasteurised and dried before use. This kind of processing denatured the qualities that had been enjoyed for so many generations. The texture and flavour suffered. 

We now have a wonderful blood sausage made with fresh blood collected from pigs that have been used for meat close by to this artisan producer. Buy here.

A beautiful body, radiant skin, strong muscles and joints – the feeling of being much younger and healthier than it can be according to the birth cohort: Who doesn’t dream of it? In recent times, collagen, a substance that is...

Don't come to Christmas dinner empty-handed! Prepare pretty jars of duck liver pate yourself and flavour them with coarse grey salt from Guérande and spices: Try an Asian mix with Sichuan pepper and armagnac or an Alsatian mix with black pepper, juniper berries and Riesling, or even mix of 5 spices (anise, cloves, cinnamon, ginger and black pepper)… anything goes!