We Do! How Wedded Are the Royals to Ethical Nosh?
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London's magazine for ethical eating We do! How wedded are the royals to ethical nosh? n spri g 2 01 Free1 magazine Top of the pop-ups is su Fruit carts roll out in London e 31 Food growing universities ❋ Hot cross buns ❋ Turn on to tap G CALLINIRE THE EMP London Calling the empire at home and overseas. This is Camden Town and at long last we are free to say words of our own. Stop drinking rubbish and begin drinking quality craft beer from your own towns brewery, Camden Town Brewery. Keep up to date with what’s going on at the brewery, and with our latest beer news on offer by signing up on the website or by getting in touch www.camdentownbrewery.com Camden Town Brewery 55-59 Wilkin Street Mews London NW5 3NN Telephone: 020 7485 1671 [email protected] 19_CAMDEN AD 270 x 210_6.indd 1 11/01/2011 09:32 Tuck in! 4 Bulletin 6 Around Town Say hello to the 7 Shop Window El's Kitchen 8 To Market Queens Park G What’s in season 8 Jellied Eel 11 Feature Fruit carts 12 Feature Royal Warrant holders IRE s the end of Lent draws Carluccios banning 'red list' fish. With CALLIN 14 Local to London Ronny Liu near, and the time for even the Disney store signing up to ritual gorging comes upon Sustainable Fish City (well, actually, 15 On the Menu Pop up principles? us with Easter, spare a Vacherin who do the catering in one A 16 Taste of London Hot cross buns thought for the less than chocolatey hot of their buildings), it would seem this THE EMP cross bun. Although, sadly, now widely issue is on a roll (or even wave!). See 17 Star Stockist My Coffee Stop available all year round (yes, I do think www.sustainablefishcity.net for what 19 Capital Growth baked goods should be added to all you can do next to help our oceans. seasonality calendars!), the hot cross As you can see by the icon on the 19 Growing Calendar bun, for those of us who can remember, bulletin pages – we’re on twitter. 20 Reader’s Kitchen was once linked with Easter (that there The problem is I’m not sure that I’m being a cross on the top, guv’nor)! following the right people! I’m keen Eliza Flanagan On p16 you can read about why one to tell you about all the wonderful 21 London Food Link Café Crema London pub has such a strong history ethical food goings on around town, What’s on with the aforementioned bun. so let me know if you’re on twitter 22 London Calling the empire at For those of you a little slower off so I can start following you. the starting blocks with picking up a By the time the next issue comes home and overseas. This is copy of this issue of the Jellied Eel, it’s out, we’ll be kicking off what we hope probably as good as summer by now. will be a huge bee campaign (that’s not Camden Town and at long last The Jellied Eel is a quarterly magazine published by No doubt you’ll be overwhelmed by a a campaign for bigger bees! - it’s a big we are free to say words of our London Food Link and BIG Media. It has a circulation plethora of choices of hot new pop- campaign to help support bee-friendly of 20,000 and is distributed to all London Food own. Stop drinking rubbish and up cafes to go to, or rather, should I behaviour) with some very high-profile Link members, as well as food retailers, restaurants say event caterers! While I’m more partners. We’re also going to be looking and entertainment venues. Disclaimer: inclusion begin drinking quality craft excited than most when a derelict shop into the food on offer at the capital’s top of information in the Jellied Eel does not imply the beer from your own towns gets turned over for a week or two tourist attractions. Let us know if you’ve product or service is endorsed by London Food Link into some new concept in dining (see had any hideous or pleasantly surprising or Sustain. We do not condone the consumption of brewery, Camden Town p15) – I think the term is used a little experiences at London’s landmarks. jellied eels, as many eel stocks are currently very low. Brewery. Keep up to date with liberally when applied as an add-on Oh and the royal wedding. What Editor Ben Reynolds to events. Is this year’s Glastonbury royal wedding? I’ve been too busy Deputy Editor Kelly Parsons what’s going on at the brewery, festival going to be rebranded as worrying about my own wedding. BIG Media Director Jamie Ford and with our latest beer news the UKs largest pop-up town? Come on, crack open that Babycham… Art direction and design Becky Joynt More concerning are “pop-up” Contributors Matt Atkinson, Michael Dees, on offer by signing up on the principles. Now you see them, now Anna Fenton, Anna Francis, Clare Hill, website or by getting in touch you don’t. Sadly it seems rather too Ben Benjamin Hunt, Georgie Knight, Tom Moggach many of London’s restaurants (a Editor and Anna Sbuttoni www.camdentownbrewery.com shocking 18 per cent of 'local' claims Cover Julian Winslow are undoubtedly false but not just Editorial enquiries Camden Town Brewery in restaurants) lie to customers, [email protected] or 020 7837 1228 overstating the ethical origins of the www.londonfoodlink.org 55-59 Wilkin Street Mews food they serve. Check out our On The Distribution enquiries to stock the Jellied Eel Menu report at www.thejelliedeel.org London [email protected] or 020 7837 1228 for more details. But, fortunately for NW5 3NN Londoners, one thing that does seem Advertising and sponsorship enquiries to be improving is the fish on offer. [email protected] or phone 07900 496 979 Following the drum beating of Hugh Telephone: 020 7485 1671 and Jamie, the likes of Greenpeace and Printed by the Sustainable Fish City campaign Stones the Printers have been making huge leaps with [email protected] suppliers like Princes, caterers like Sodexo, and restaurants including Photo: Pamela Troni 19_CAMDEN AD 270 x 210_6.indd 1 11/01/2011 09:32 Aerial gardening Grow your own omelette This isn’t some bizarre science experiment, rather a chance A new book charting one for schools to win a wonderful, chicken-friendly prize by Londoner's attempts to entering a home-made omelette into a competition. The transform herself into an rules are that the omelette will have to start with aerial, edible gardener is out eggs from the school’s hens and can include in June. ‘My Garden, the City anything - as long as it has been grown and Me: Rooftop Adventures by the school and is in season and in the Wilds of London’, by ready to harvest in May. However, Helen Babbs is a personal salt and pepper is allowed! The portrait of a rooftop garden final omelettes will be judged and of a city. Find out more at the Real Food Festival on 5 at www.aerialediblegardening.co.uk and read May. www.schoolfoodmatters. Helen’s article about her experiences at www. thejelliedeel.org. s r e t t a M d o o l F o o Real Food Book ch S to: We have two copies of the Real Food Festival’s wonderful new book to be won. The pho Real Food Book was launched at the start of April and features loads of great recipes from producers and people linked with the events the festival organisers run. To enter this prize draw, please send in a picture of yourself reading the Jellied Eel in one of our stockists – see www.sustainweb.org/jelliedeel/stockists. If they’ve run out let us (and the shop) know. 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