Local food experiment

[Karen_D]

From the BBC website about people in Fife trying a local food diet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7152009.stm

Their own blog here

http://fifediet.wordpress.com/

Wassail

Karen

[ina]

Thanks for the link - the experiment was in all the papers here a few weeks ago, but I'd really like to know more about it! Especially how serious they take it: what about stuff like locally brewed beer - which has to use imported hops, as they aren't grown up here?

[QuakerBear]

I've read about this too. It's good that it's been so well publicised. The main thing I'd have problems with would be spices. One can grow corriander indoors but has anyone tried other spices like tumeric and cumin?

[ina]

They do use these things - I think they are being a bit pragmatic here... And I also believe that not all those who take part are equally "purist" about it. You'd even be hard pushed finding local salt - although the North Sea is just outside, so you could make your own!

[the.fee.fairy]

I've read about this too. It's good that it's been so well publicised. The main thing I'd have problems with would be spices. One can grow corriander indoors but has anyone tried other spices like tumeric and cumin?

I tried tumeric once.

Its supposed to grow in the same way that ginger does - plant it in a pot of compost and it'll shoot.

I planted it...and it rotted away

BUT, i am the person (the only one in the world it seems...) who can't get an avocado stone to grow...

[ina]

BUT, i am the person (the only one in the world it seems...) who can't get an avocado stone to grow...

Try chucking them on the compost heap - that's how I got a few germinated: they need heat!

[the.fee.fairy]

I'll give it a go when the weather warms up a bit - they're more likely to freeze at the moment!

[Amaranth]

There are some more recipes recently posted on the Fifediet blog that would work in lots of other places in the winter.

[ina]

I met them at their first public event last weekend - very enthusiastic and interesting, all of them! If you do live anywhere near it, go along... The more, the better.