Jellied Eel Issue 26
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Shock! London’s local pubs serving good grub Feeding the 5000 with food waste London’s going back down the market ISSUE 26 2009 WINTER FREE LONDON’S PUDDINGS * SCHOOLS GROWING FOOD * LORD MAYOR’S TRIFLE PRODUCE MARKET We believe in championing small, local producers and helping to make their produce available to everyone at a fair price. We source responsibly and respect the seasons. We’re independent and we like working with independent producers. '2%%.'2/#%2s!24)3!."2%!$0!342)%3s&2%%2!.'%-%!4s 3534!).!",9#!5'(4&)3(s#(%%3%#(!2#54%2)%s7).% "%%2 #)$%2s*5)#%3-//4()%3s-/.-/54(#/&&%%s0,53&//$ !.$$2).+4/(!6%!44(%4!",% /.4(%'//24!+%(/-% /&&(!-0%23!43/52#%$-!2+%4 Present your copy of *%,,)%$%%,ATTHEMARKETORQUOTEIFORDERINGBYEMAIL 6ALIDUNTIL\Email [email protected] for our brochure &).$533T0ANCRAS)NTERNATIONAL\-ONTO&RIAM PM\3ATAM PM\3UNAM PM 7773/52#%$-!2+%4#/- Say hello to the TUCK IN! Bulletin 04 Shop Window: Hand Made Food 07 jellied Around Town 08 Feature: London’s local pubs 10 On the Menu: Sarah Moore 12 eel... Capital Growth: Schools 15 Local to London: Aunt Alice Puddings 17 Taste of London: Lord Mayor’s trifle 18 While many Londoners will be Cambridge, we were pleased to hear from preparing for somewhat frugal Tristram Stuart, author of Waste, in one of Reader’s Kitchen: Janice Hammond 20 festivities this year, lots of our our five minute slots (they’re like speed- Member Feature: Jenny Linford 21 readers will be juggling this with dating for foodies! Don’t miss the next one Diary 23 ethical concerns. Where to get the in the Spring). Tristram has followed up by writing to The Jellied Eel (p4) about his 23 turkey? Fairtrade or organic Stockist Feature: The Pavilion Café event “Feeding the 5000”, in Trafalgar chocolates on the tree? What to Square in December. Tristram is hoping to make for the vegetarian this year?! divert enough (perfectly edible) food Thanks to the Team Well we’ve tried to help out with the destined for landfill, to feed, well, whoever Content: London Food Link puds, taking a look at one of happens to be in Trafalgar Square that day Editor: Ben Reynolds London’s longest established – bar the pigeons – which he assures me Contributors: Zeenat Anjari, Rosie Christmas pudding companies won’t be turning up in the soup either! Blackburn, Maresa Bossano, Vanessa (p17), and at least as old, if not Domenzain, Ida Fabrizio, Jamie Ford, Ellie With people being more thrifty with the Garwood, Polly Higginson, Charlotte older, the Lord Mayor’s trifle (p18). Jarman, Tom Moggach, Sadie Rhodes recession, and the impact of European Produced and Published: B.I.G. Media After all this yuletide excess, many of us waste legislation over the next two years, Directors: Jamie Ford will be looking to stay off the booze and rich there are some very good economic Design: Becky Joynt Advertising: Jamie Ford pickings for at least a few days. So as part reasons to convince those who aren’t Front Cover: Max Kalis and Sourced Market of our new farmer’s market notice board moved by the environmental or social (p5), we’ve pointed out some of the reasons for not being wasteful. After all, The Jellied Eel is the free quarterly magazine for seasonal veg you can get there at the wasting food costs the average family £420 sustainable food in London, produced by London Food Link and B.I.G. Media. The magazine has a moment, to help with those diets. Maybe a year, money which would certainly help towards the costs of a fun-packed, ethical 20,000 circulation, and is distributed to all London one of our readers will come up with the Food Link members, and via shops, cafes, next best-selling diet plan around eating Christmas. restaurants, bars, and entertainment venues. local food! LFL would like to thank Hand Up Media for all their help over the last year. As many readers will know, The Jellied Eel, Cover image: Sourced Market, Clapham as well as being London’s only free food magazine, is linked to London Food Link, Advertising & Sponsorship Enquiries [email protected] the network for those Londoners Telephone: 07900 496979 passionate about ethical food. We asked these members what more they wanted out bEednit@orsiauls tEaninqwueirbi.eos rg 020 7837 1228 of The Jellied Eel and, in response to a www.londonfoodlink.org resounding cry for more on food growing, we’ve created a new section Capital Distribution Enquiries Growth , which as well as including growing ptoo lslyt@ocsku tshtaei nJweellbie.odr gE e0l20 7837 1228 tips, will focus in on different projects around London starting off this issue with schools (p15). © P a m e l At the last London Food Link network do, a T r back in November at the Duke of o n i Ben-Editor Disclaimer : Inclusion of information in The Jellied Eel does not imply that the product of service is endorsed by London Food Link or Sustain. 02/03 Letter of the Issue! Dear Jellied Eel s Christmas is of course a time for feasting and abundance but as e t a Y with Christmases past, hundreds of tonnes of fresh and delicious a r u a brussels sprouts, carrots and potatoes (amongst many, many L y b other things of course) will never make it to festive tummies. k r o w t r On December 16th between 12 noon and 2pm in London's Trafalgar Square a n Feeding the 5000 will gather enough food to feed five thousand people, made from m u l l ingredients that otherwise would have been wasted - hot soup made from wonky o c s ’ carrots, potatoes cast out for being the wrong shape or size, fruit that wouldn't n o s normally be harvested, slices of bread and sandwiches, all fresh and good to eat l e N that were destined for the bin. The rescued food, will be distributed as a free lunch to 5000 members of the public on a first come first served basis - all are welcome and encouraged to come along for a truly free lunch. There will be brief addresses from members of the food and farming industries as well as civic and spiritual leaders, including the Bishop of London. There will also be a live cooking demonstration from leading chefs such as Tommi Miers as well as the smoothie bicycle which will be pressing and handing not. Waste not, want out smoothies from unwanted fruit. a Bossano top tips from Mares We are trying to let people know that food waste is not inevitable and in fact, the things about solutions are often simple, business friendly and perfectly feasible. We can all help 1. One of the good er is that to relieve pressure on the environment and on global food supplies simply by winter 's cold weath will last for wasting less food. It is our hope that next Christmas we will eat some of the slightly your root vegetables omewhere knobbly parsnips which may otherwise have ended up rotting in fields. Who a lot longer stored s no need to knows? Perhaps they’ll be all the more delicious for it. cool and dark, with e (unless store them in a fridg Tristram Stuart al heating you have your centr h!). turned up too hig Tristram, famous for his freeganism, windfall apples receives a fantastic hamper packed 2. There’s still a few es are partly around. If your appl full of produce kindly supplied by t of the bad damaged you can cu Sourced Market, so he doesn’t have to remaning bits and stew up the scour the bins for a few days. the freezer good parts to put in Available at www.sourcedmarket.com ason. for later on in the se stale bread 3. If you've got any whizz it into don't throw it away - can use them breadcrumbs . You 61% increase in sale t roast or s of fruit and veg h in treacle tart, nu As reported in the fres last issue of the Jellied Eel, since ut them in the Buywe September the gratins - or p ll retail project, managed by Lond - but on Food Link has been ezer for future use working with 17 shops aroun fre d London to give them a t to label the box so fruit and veg mak don't forgo eover. Many of the shops taking hat they are! part in the project, w you know w hich is part of Well London, were previously not stocking f cing citrus fruits, ruit and veg, and have been 4. If you are jui given help to im st. Always prove their displays and range. y not zest them fir Amo wh ngst other things this has helped leftover zest in the to increase sales, w keep the in one case by a whopping 6 w biscuits, cakes, 1%! w. / fridge. Add it to www.sus sus ion us or a tainweb.org/buywell/buyw tai act couscous, humm ell_shops/ nweb ign/ ishes to give .org/ch campa multitude of other d ildrensfood them a bit of a zing! Farmers’ Market noticeboard This issue’s featured market is one of South Downs Venison & Game eighteen operated by London Farmers Jess Garton and her husband, Jack, rent 1500 Markets. All produce comes from within a acres of woodland on the South Downs in ondon, but most Sussex. Jack’s dad is a gamekeeper and radius of 100 miles from L shooting instructor, and runs a pheasant shoot.