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A jar of peanut butter is a wondrous thing. It has the power to reduce grown men and women into little children, greedily poking their fingers in the jar to scoop out and lick a creamy dollop of buttery, crunchy goodness. Everyone has their favourite peanut butter combination. Mine is crunchy peanut butter and manuka

  Super Natural Every Day is not a cookbook. Heidi Swanson’s latest offering is a private journal of a person who embraces food in its truest form, smattered with photos that make you want to experience and recipes that make you want to cook. I first leafed through a copy at a local bookstore last

I love pomegranates. I hate peeling or prepping them. One of my kitchen pet peeves along with refilling oil from the can into the oil bottle and cutting a pumpkin. I only get to eat pomegranate when Nick painstakingly gets all the seeds out, red juice running down his hands. (I know there is an

  I have always fancied the idea of old travelling circuses. Right from when I was a child and watched Dumbo to a young girl reading Mr. Galliano’s Circus by Enid Blyton under the covers at night to being fascinated by the mystery of HBO’s Carnivale. The adventure and romance of the gypsy life and

The Spotlight is on. And in the month of January 2012, it is on food-blogger and cookbook author Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks. Heidi has one of the oldest and most original voices in the ever burgeoning world of food blogs and photography. She has a unique perspective of food and its preparation, one that is