When it comes to sugar, Suzy Stennett is definitely buying local.
I’M in two minds when it comes to sugar – the mother constantly guarding my girls from consuming too many sweets, the rest of me loyally supporting my sugar beet growing husband and the British sugar industry.
I’m always amazed that the same product can be processed from two completely different plants – sugar beet, like a large turnip, farmed throughout Europe, and maizelike sugar cane, better suited to the hotter climates of countries such as Mauritius and Belize. For the purpose of this article, I did a taste test with the family – a (small) spoonful of granulated sugar processed from sugar beet, and another processed from sugar cane – and none of us could taste the difference.
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‘Look at me!'
Jan planned a modest start to 2020. It’s not going well.
Treasure Island
Lindsay Want goes on a walking adventure around Somerleyton on the ancient island of Lothingland
New beginnings
In the bleak, dark days at the start of the year, life stirs
In black & white
Felix Aldred follows the fortunes of a family of oystercatchers on a Suffolk river estuary
Hot dates
Mark your calendar for some important milestone events in 2020
Applause, applause
Bury’s Theatre Royal, the only Regency theatre in the UK, is a hidden attraction that deserves to have its name up in lights
2020 vision
With the New Year upon us, heralding opportunities for change and renewal, we asked some of Suffolk’s leading lights about their hopes for the county and their personal ambitions for the coming months.
Dreaming Of A White Christmas
Maxine White and Ady White (not related) make Christmas happen. They’re possibly Suffolk’s closest thing to Santa’s elves.
Food From The Heart
It’s ten years since Justin Sharp opened Pea Porridge in Bury St Edmunds. He’s still proudly delighting customers with simple, satisfying seasonal food, brimful of flavour
An All Together English Walk
Lindsay Want takes a seasonal family stroll around the parklands of Huntingfield and Heveningham
