Cool foods for hot days
IN THE winter, when the temperatures drop to ‘uncomfortably chilly’, we all know what to do: batten down the hatches, put a vest on and start cooking hearty ribsticking hot foods.
However, on those precious, few and far between halcyon days of summer, when the sun is cracking the flags, the reverse of that procedure doesn’t seem to work. Peculiarly, drinking cold drinks and wolfing down ice creams and the like does not tend to keep us cool.
As the climate change debate gathers even more momentum, it seems that we’ll all have to learn to live with increasing temperatures and potential seasonal shift. Few of
