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Use the science of curing to turn salmon into gravlax at home

29 January 2020

Salt curing preserves salmon while allowing great flavours to develop. Find out the secrets of this age-old technique of preservation and make gravlax at home
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The life of Veronique Le Guen, record-breaking caver

29 January 2020

Veronique Le Guen died in 1990, just two years after she had set a world record for the most time spent alone in an underground cavern

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