Supermarket safari

I love going away on holiday. I love the different sights and sounds and tastes. And in particular I love the supermarkets. Yes that’s right the supermarkets. Not the food shops or markets but the supermarkets. The specialist food shops and markets are good too but you have to know a modicum of the language in question or be a dab hand at gesticulating to get something close to what you want and I mostly got stuck at “dos cervezas por favor”. So I say bring on the exploration of another nation’s food culture through it supermarkets (or [...]

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Boxed in

About a month ago I was contacted by the PR firm for Abel &Cole asking if I’d like to try one of their veg boxes for free,well in exchange for doing a review of it on my blog,after all nothing is truly free;although I figured they’d have a hard time trying to enforce the contract if I just scoffed the food then did nothing.

Legal matters aside there was,of course,the issue of whether to accept a freebie and whether you can write an objective review of something you didn’t pay for. In actual fact [...]

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Suffolk seaside treats

Up on the Suffolk coast for brisk walks and tasty food this weekend. Love it up here and there is plenty to keep a food addict happy –from great farm shops to favourite restaurants,good beer and excellent fish and chips. Too much to fit into one weekend so we are pretty regular visitors.

This weekend we have picked up a lot of goodies at the Friday Street Farm Shop –some to eat now,some to take back home. We always get something by Purely Pesto (who don’t just make pesto) –this time it was some [...]

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