All Woman Alive articles in September 2019
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FeaturesSteak haché with pommes frites & cheat’s Béarnaise sauce
A classic French recipe of bun-less burger & chips, that can be found in every brasserie and bistro. Kids will love it and it’s easy to create together at home
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FeaturesA brief history and timeline of French cuisine
Succulent foie gras and light-as-air soufflés haven’t always been the fare of choice in France. Until the day the Bastille was stormed in 1789, 70 per cent of French citizens were peasants and poor farmers whose diets were based mainly on grains. Bread was the primary component of their diet. ...
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FeaturesSautéed potatoes with bacon lardons & persillade
This fabulous French side dish of pan-fried potatoes and salty smoked bacon is finished with garlic and herbs, and pairs perfectly with roast meats and poultry.
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FeaturesWhite chocolate crème brûlée
Serve this super-creamy chocolate dessert on its own, or as part of an ‘assiete’ of mini chocolate puddings. It’s the perfect gluten-free dessert that requires very simple ingredients with impressive results.
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FeaturesSummer fish stew with rouille
Conjure up thoughts of Mediterranean holidays with this light but indulgent meal for two. The trick is to get the best possible flavour in to the base of the stew, often known as the broth. Then all you do is simply poach the fish in the stew at the very ...
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FeaturesWe could use bees’ honey to track environmental lead pollution
Bees’ honey is a surprisingly effective tool for monitoring lead in the environment and could be used to track pollution in areas where more established methods of sampling are hard to organise.
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FeaturesElephants help forests store more carbon by destroying smaller plants
Elephants do a lot of damage to plants as they stomp around the jungle, but, counterintuitively, this activity increases the biomass of the forest, letting it store more carbon.
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FeaturesBirds and insect species are heading north in the UK as climate warms
More than 50 species – including the purple heron, the southern emerald damselfly and the green-jawed tube web spider – have been on the move in the UK over the past decade as climate change takes hold.
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FeaturesWildlife summit to consider global ban on saiga antelope trade
The US and Mongolia are backing a ban on the trade of a critically endangered species of antelope that has seen its numbers in the central Asian steppes devastated by hunting and disease.
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NewsWe could breed climate-friendly cows that belch less methane
Cows could be selectively bred to cut their significant contribution to global warming in half, researchers have proposed.
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NewsAldi targets affluent consumers with new ‘icon’ wine range online
Aldi is targeting affluent wine consumers with the launch of a 50-strong premium and fine wine own label range that will only be available exclusively online, in a move that will double the number of core lines sold online
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NewsAldi brings back sell-out Le Creuset inspired cookware range
Some pans are an incredible £200 cheaper than a similar Le Creuset dish - and they’re in store next week
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NewsDevelopers to unveil plans for new Aldi on vacant site in Lydney
Residents will be able to have their say on the developers’ ideas tonight before a formal planning application is submitted
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NewsMicroplastics in the Arctic and the Alps may have blown in on the wind
Tiny particles of plastic have been found in high concentrations in snow samples from the Swiss Alps, parts of Germany and the Arctic, even places as remote as the island of Svalbard and in snow on drifting ice floes. These microplastics may have drifted there on wind currents.
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NewsBananas have benefited from climate change – but they won’t in future
Climate change has been relatively kind to banana suppliers so far – but in the decades to come, friend may turn to foe. Temperatures are likely to get so hot that the annual production gains enjoyed by banana suppliers will begin to drop. And in some places, total banana yields ...
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NewsRound-up: the key decisions to protect wildlife from the CITES summit
One of the world’s largest international wildlife trade summits wrapped up in Geneva yesterday, with some animals being awarded stronger protections. Here are the 7 key decisions that were made at a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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NewsFree-floating DNA to reveal the health of river and lake ecosystems
The mix of DNA floating in rivers and lakes will finally be used to monitor the state of aquatic ecosystems, after years of tests to show that the technique works.
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NewsWasps are shrinking in size and it may be because of climate change
Some black and yellow-striped picnic visitors might be smaller than their ancestors were a century ago. At least one common wasp species appears to be shrinking as a consequence of the ongoing global rise in temperatures caused by climate change.
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NewsAirline Business on Ryanair, Vietnam, Aigle Azur, cargo
The new edition of the Airline Business podcast is now available.
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FeaturesThe Essence of Provence
Whether your tastes run to cosy cottages or grand châteaus, beaches or hill towns, long lunches or languid dinners, the south of France delivers.
