We have discovered a few extra benefits to Eating Local that we did not expect to find. Obviously, drawing attention to Food Miles is the key objective and spreading the message on how to reduce our carbon footprints. Eat Local clearly does this very well. But there are extra benefits :-
A) It is ace for engaging friends and family in debates about carbon and why we are putting ourselves through such a bother.
B) Cambridge Sunday Morning Farmers Market. We now make regular visits to the Cambridge market square for organic veg, beef from Midsummer Common, fish, and home bakes. And it is no more expensive than supermarket stuff. At the moment, the target — local Asparagus and Strawberries, delicious.
C) Sourdough Bread. Home made bread is easy once I cultivated a sourdough base and got into regular habits of leaving the mixture overnight and even over days so it has time to work slowly. The trouble with modern bread using the Chorleywood Bread Making Process is its speed, industrial scale and quick-fix rising with chemicals which allow no time to let the bread rise naturally. These quick-rise chemicals disagree with lots of folk who find they cannot tolerate this type of bread. It may be the chemicals not the bread that disgrees with their insides. Or maybe it is still rising in their stomachs so they feel bloated.
Posted by Sue