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Eat Local can be Luxury not Hairshirt
The resident curmudgeon I share the house with was full of apprehension about how puritanical the Eat Local project would be, how much we would have to give up, what of life’s little luxuries we would do without. Not So! Far from being Hairshirt, we find that eating local has its own [...]

We had a Bring and Share supper to start off our Eating Local project last week and my offering was a Frittata. This was a new recipe to me and turned out to be very simple, just a sort of Spanish Omelette using whatever vegetables you happen to have. At present our allotment has leeks, [...]

One of my favourite spring vegetables is purple sprouting broccoli – it is so much tastier than the more common large-headed, all-green Calabrese type, which is what you mainly get in the supermarkets all year round. Mayflower Organics in the Sunday market has it now, but lots of people grow their own. The photo shows [...]

Just completed our first day of Eating Local which was less tricky than expected. Much heated debate around the house before we began got resolved by discovering that our local butcher, Waller’s at Mitcham’s Corner by the Victoria Bridge, does local rabbit, pigeon, venison and beef. So the omnivores here were converted to the idea of eating local [...]

I never really appreciated rhubarb until I started seriously getting into eating local food, what with fruit from anywhere in the world being available effectively all the time, but now I really look forward to the spring crop, which comes so much earlier than any other fruit. Having eaten mainly stored apples all winter (and [...]