Fermented foods can keep help you healthy through the cold winter

Fermented foods can give you a real health boost during the cold winter, says food writer, Valerie O’Connor.

Now that Halloween has passed we can all mention the C word without fear of reproach.

I am a bit of a humbug however and have been busy balking at decorated trees in apartment windows since mid-October — grumbling to myself and muttering in a bad-tempered, old-mannish way.