Lochmuir doesn’t exist, does it matter?

The debasement of ordinary words that have no legal protection has been common enough. Much has been written about the abuse of ‘real’ ‘homemade’, ‘natural’, ‘local’ and ‘artisan’ being but a few examples. Only a few days ago Marion Nestle wrote in The Atlantic posing the question ‘Is ‘Natural’ the Most Meaningless Word on Your [...]

The EDL march through Leicester

Hazel Paterson on yesterday’s EDL march through Leicester.

Local food – it’s not simply a question of miles

The other day the Cambridge News carried a piece headed: ‘The 30-mile diet: eating local, eating green’.  One of the latest of a number of similar events that have taken place around the country in recent times. Whilst I admire such initiatives I trouble a little that we should not lose sight of the true [...]

Tomatoland – how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit

Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook exposes the “human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry” in this compelling account. I picked up Tomatoland thinking it to be simply a book about the industrialisation of a favourite food, but it is much, much more and provides a graphic account of the politics of [...]

Food and drink trends in 2012 – what relevance for the artisan producer?

This is the time of the year we are more likely to take a nostalgic look back at recent events than look to the future, but Leatherhead Food Research has done just that in publishing its prediction of the trends in food and drink which will make the biggest impact in 2012. There is no [...]

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