Tom Wheeler, from London, ate the leaves from 116ft (35.4m) of nettle stalks to claim the men's trophy, beating last year's tally of 64ft (19.5m). Defending women's champion Beth Hodges retained ...

Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) is a three-to-seven-foot tall perennial, native to the Pacific Northwest, and it is named for its painful “sting,” delivered by sharp hairs dotting its stem and ...

THE quantity of stinging nettles grown unwillingly throughout Great Britain must amount to a very considerable weight of material each year. What is its food value? According to average figures ...

Nettle pudding was the earliest, and Ruth Fairchild ... Stuffed dates were popular with the Romans, who also introduced beating eggs to make custards, cakes and fruit breads, with the added flavour of ...