British farmers forced to pay the cost of the supermarket price wars The Guardian, Saturday 2nd July2011. As profits soar at the supermarkets, food producers say they are being forced out of business by unfair buying practices. You can pick up a punnet of British raspberries – at their best this weekend – on a [...]
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British farmers and the supermarket price wars
Posted in The price of food, UK food, Uncategorized, tagged farmers, grocery market action group, national farmers' union, price, raspberries, supermarket, supermarket price wars, the guardian on 02/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you don’t support independent restaurants, get used to soulless pizzas
Posted in Chains vs. independent businesses, UK food, Uncategorized, tagged chain restaurants, Creelers, Edinburgh, independent restaurants, Pizza Express, soulless on 01/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »
1st July 2010, The Times The effect of restaurant chains like Pizza Express is that independents barely make a profit After a particularly joyless visit to an Edinburgh Pizza Express last Sunday, all four of us ended up with mild food poisoning. Of course, I can’t prove that the restaurant was responsible, but the leathery [...]
Is this the worst dish in food?
Posted in Armenia, Uncategorized, tagged armenia, food, khash, poverty, the times on 28/05/2011 | Leave a Comment »
May 28th 2011, The Times Take 4 cow’s hooves and ankles and 1 brain (optional); boil for 32 hours (without seasoning); remove scum; gnaw bones. Haute cuisine, Armenia-style Khash, “the masterpiece of Armenian cuisine”, is always eaten early in the morning. “It is not wise to eat it late,” says our host, Shirak. “Khash is [...]
Can you feed your family on £50 a week?
Posted in The price of food, UK food, Uncategorized, tagged family, food price, Sainsbury's, supermarket, supermarket prices on 19/05/2011 | 1 Comment »
May 19th 2011, The Times Sainsbury’s believes you can, but when Alex Renton took up the challenge, he found his household of foodies and fussy eaters had serious misgivings. Eighty-four meals, £50, one happy family, say the new Sainsbury’s adverts. They promise to feed a family of four for seven days for less than the [...]
A letter to God — and a reply from Lambeth
Posted in faith, Uncategorized, tagged belief, father christmas, is God an invention?, letter to God, Lulu, religion, the archbishop of canterbury, the times on 21/04/2011 | Leave a Comment »
April 21st 2011, The Times When his six-year-old daughter, Lulu wrote a letter to God, Alex Renton did his best to get her an answer — with a little help from the Archbishop of Canterbury. M y daughter came home from primary school a few weeks ago and sat down to write a letter to [...]
Foodie’s angst: Are my kids food neurotics?
Posted in UK food, Uncategorized, tagged children, family, fish fingers, fish sauce, KFC on 17/04/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Alex Renton and family during lunch, Foulden, Berwick on Tweed. Tom Main for The Times 17th April, The Times My kids want KFC. Where did I go wrong? On the way to lunch at Giorgio Locatelli’s restaurant in London, we crossed Oxford Street. My son Adam, 11, trudging along grumpily at the prospect of a [...]
Did the British hook the Indians on tea?
Posted in India, Uncategorized, tagged britain, chai, india, tea on 11/11/2010 | Leave a Comment »
11th November 2010, The Times Three cheers for chai: given all the food pleasures that India has given us, it’s only fair we reciprocate with tea It’s you British who got us addicted to it,” said my Rajasthani friend Shukla, as he downed what must have been his tenth cup of tea of the day. [...]
All this cheap meat will cost us the Earth
Posted in Going green, Uncategorized, tagged eating animals, environment, going green, Jonathan Safran Foer, meat, vegetarianism on 25/02/2010 | Leave a Comment »
25th February, 2010 The headline read “Why I lost my appetite for meat”, the article was by a favourite novelist, but my wife wouldn’t pick up the magazine. “If I read it, I know I’ll have to become a vegetarian again and I just can’t bear to,” she said. I was braver — nothing this [...]
Do we need a dairy godmother?
Posted in Uncategorized on 07/01/2010 | Leave a Comment »
7th January 2010, The Times As milk prices drop and British dairy farms go bust, the Tories want to create a supermarket ombudsman. Can consumers help? Walk along the dairy shelf next time you are in a supermarket, and you can watch an accident happening. It is a serious one, meaning the loss of dozens [...]
