What to buy
Where to buy it
How to cook seasonal food
What to buy
Generally, go for stuff that's picked / reared / churned / baked / smoked locally and recently.
You can find out what local food is in season each month at Eat the Seasons .
You can sign up for a weekly email telling you what's in season each week here
Where to buy it
Best
Boxes, farmers markets, farm shops, packets of seeds and compost…
You can find good places to buy local food at Big Barn
Second best
Grocery shops and smaller independent shops.
This is more about local economies than locally grown food. Local shops are often not great for Fairtrade, organic and labeling country of origin. But shopping from them ploughs your money back into the local community rather than speeding it away to distant corporate head quarters.
Third best
Supermarkets
The National Consumer Council recently ranked supermarkets on their performance on food transport, waste, sustainable sourcing and sustainable farming.
They say Waitrose is the best. Morrisons and Somerfield are the worst.
source: NCC
How to cook seasonal food
Great websites.
You can search for recipes by ingredient at Big Barn, Abel and Cole and Eat the Seasons .
The BBC has some useful seasonal recipes.
www.veginity.com is the website of the amazing chef in The Nag's lunchtime café round the corner.
Good seasonal cookery books.
Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater.
Cooking outside the box from Abel and Cole.
Allegra's Colour Cookbook by Allegra McEvedy – founder and chef of Leon.
