Know your food

Exotic native mushrooms

As expected, being able to enjoy the Borough market and all its bounties has been one of the highlights of living in London.  What a fabulous day, when the sun is shining, the traders are preparing their goods, and all our the visitors' eyes are glowing at the delicacies around.  How fortunate I feel when I come home and fill the fridge with the bounty, grateful I have this wonderful food in my life.

I feel very strongly, that knowing your food - where it came from and what is in it - is very important to not only our health, but the health of our planet.  The markets in London, and the number of local producers in England and beyond make this a very easy way to live.  For example, my Sunday breakfast:

• Eggs -  Organic, free range eggs from the "Old House Farm" out in Herefordshire
• Butter - "made with cream from our organically reared Guernsey Cows at Berkekey Farm Dairy" out in Swindon, bought from the notorious Neal's Yard Dairy http://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk/
• Bread - sourdough, made locally at Poilane in London
• Jam - Handmade Norfolk conserves, reduced sugar - each batch handmade in the small kitchen of the Wood Berry Farm with their home-grown berries
• Bacon -  smoked short back bacon from a happy pig raised out on the Ginger Pig's farms in Yorkshire  http://www.thegingerpig.co.uk/ 

Ok, ok ... healthy?  A little comfort food for a girl away from home once in a while ...