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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 08 9:49 am Post subject: Re: One Local Summer challenge |
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judith wrote: |
......within a given radius of home, barring salt. pepper, spices and oil (I am inclined to add yeast to the list as well). By local, I suggest a radius of 50 miles. |
I can't imagine cooking without salt. Phew, as Maldon is 80 miles! Not within this challenge, but on the whole, not bad as foodmiles go. And this is someone who lives about as far from the see as it is possible to get (I beleive the furthest point is officially Tring, which about 6 miles from here)
Herbs are one of the easiest things to grow (if perhaps not to source) Nearly anyone could get a few plants and put them in a sunny corner (or even a window box) and keep themselves in their favourites for one meal a week. Lemongrass and coriander are the only ones I ever buy, now. Spices would be hard to cook without, if you are keen on that sort of thing.
I think citrus fruits, oil and sugar are the only things that would be truly unfathomable if push came to shove. And I think sugar may be made in East Anglia somewhere? I know oil can be produced, here, I just don't know if it is. There are plenty of other things I use which are imported (coffee, tea, rice, spices, chocoate, nuts, pulses) but not in large quantities, or as a daily staple.
Oh, and gin. |
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