Local Food Britain

Apr

03

Historic sausage back on the menu

Meat

The Jolly Farmers pub restaurant in Buckland near Reigate is helping their local butcher put a lost sausage back on people’s plates.

Mar

20

A question of trust

Local Food in Sussex

Fallout continues to rain down from last year’s headline-grabbing ‘Horsegate’ scandal, which shook the foundations of the food industry. As well as inciting a distrust of budget cuts, it ignited a renewed interest in food traceability. Complacency turned to curiosity as consumers questioned the origins of their food.

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Mar

14

in the news

Feb

18

Corner the market

Surrey Events

Local Food Surrey’s Alice Whitehead meets the man behind the new Grayshott Market that is taking a radically different approach to promoting local food

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Grayshott Market street food

Feb

04

Exotic sips from Sussex

Local Soft Drinks

Love is in the air, and Valentine’s hearts adorn the shops, so it’s appropriate that this month we’re focussing on ginger - a food that’s reputed to be an aphrodisiac! We're not sure whether it will spice up your love life, but there’s nothing quite like it for banishing the winter chill - from within.

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Ginger Lemonade

Jan

15

Buy British to help the economy, says government minister

Food

Last week, BBC News reported that environment secretary Owen Paterson had raised questions at an Oxford Farming Conference about why 24% of the food eaten in the UK is imported.

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Nov

29

A happy high street Christmas

Local Food in Sussex

Big name shops would love us to believe that Christmas magic begins when we step through their doors. From the moment we are met by Wham lamenting the heartbreak of “Last Christmas” (29 years on, we all know exactly what happened to poor George Michael’s heart “the very next day”), they want us to feel all warm and fuzzy as we bop along the aisles; our trolleys twinkling under the fluorescents, faces lit with excitement at special offers on turkey foil and mass-produced festive nibbles.

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Supermarkets Christmas Local Shops

Sep

27

Be game! Pop a pheasant in the pot

Local Food in Sussex

There's never time to get bored if you "eat the seasons". As one food fades from the seasonal calendar, another takes its place. So it’s bye for now to the fresh flavours of summer and hello to robust autumn treats, such as one of my favourite game birds - pheasant.

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Pheasant Game

Sep

27

Pheasant: not a bird for all seasons

Game

One of the best things about “eating the seasons” is that there’s never time to get bored. As one food falls off the seasonal calendar, another takes its place. So it’s goodbye to the vibrant flavours of summer and hello to richer autumn treats, such as one of my favourite game birds - pheasant.

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Pheasant Game

Sep

02

Thirty steps to food heaven

Food

Pickled firecracker peppers, creamy mold-ripened cheese, coral rosé with a hint of lychee and creamy oysters that smell of the seashore – all the gems you’d expect from a forage through the French appellations or a culinary caper through the Italian DOCs, right? Wrong.