International Cuisine
A simple meal – or was it? I needed to cook a relatively simple meal recently, a few prawns, some salmon fillets, and some vegetables – cooked indian style from a new cook book my family had treated me to! Such is life!
I called into a cheaper high street supermarket, to purchase the goodies, and usually I always try and source local produce. Time was tight, and so I did a trolley dash, collecting the fish, prawns, cauliflower, green beans and spices as I went. I was amazed when I came home and unpacked the food. The prawns were from China, the salmon from Finland, the cauli from France, green beans from Israel, and the chillies from Zambia. The goods may have been cheaper but at what cost to the carbon footprint and the Fair-trade world? I’ll try and shop more wisely next time, and even so, the dishes were very nice and all gobbled up!
