Going further than food miles Tim Lang, father of food miles, talks about food systems “Forget organic. Eat local.” Nice, simple advice, from the cover of Time magazine. But more or less pointless. There’s so much more to food systems than just the distance the food travels. Tim Lang coined the phrase food miles. We talked about the complexities of the food system.
Hummus: for better or worse Two very different approaches to the social baggage of chickpea purée. Continue Reading →
Eat This Newsletter 015 “Never apologise, never explain” is all very well, but … I’ve been away, and I wasn’t able to do much finding or sifting the flowers of the internet. So, here you go: Continue Reading →
Fifth quarter: Rachel Roddy’s Rome Living, eating and cooking in Testaccio That sink is where Rachel Roddy, an English woman in Rome, prepares meals to share with her partner Vincenzo, their young son Luca, and a horde of appreciative readers of her website and, now, her first book. Continue Reading →
Eat This Newsletter 014 Another round-up of food-flavoured findings, oddly negative for some reason. Heigh-ho. Continue Reading →