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“Eat for Devon”: useful websites and further reading
Looking for inspiration for locally sourced food? Here are some websites that might help:
http://www2.btcv.org.uk/display/freefoodguide
BTCV’s Grow Your Own Food Guide, this downloadable guide aims to help you get the best from food and reduce the impact on our environment and is crammed with tips, advice and recipes.
http://www.food-mag.co.uk/index.php
Your free guide to the best restaurants, pubs, cafes, accommodation, recipes and shopping in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, Bath and Bristol.
http://www.lovetheflavour.co.uk/
Described as Your essential guide to the best eating and drinking in Devon, this guide aims to promote Devon-based businesses committed to producing and using local raw materials and ingredients.
http://www.tastebudsmagazine.co.uk/
A free magazine that celebrates food and drink in Devon.
“Eat for Devon”: menu ideas
By the way, look what I spotted in the Co-op:
West Country milk
All their milk is labelled “produce of the West Country”.
“Eat for Devon”: launches Saturday 21 August
Our challenge to eat food produced or sourced locally starts tomorrow on Saturday 21st August. We’ll be in Teignmouth Triangle from 10am so please come and say hello.
“Eat for Devon”: inviting people to join us
I work at Torbay Hospital, and have invited some colleagues to join me in this experiment. Please are you able to encourage friends and relatives, colleagues, or people in clubs/societies etc. to “eat for Devon”? It would be great to let us know of groups who have been invited to join us, so please ‘leave a comment’.
“Eat for Devon”: preparation for our local food challenge
Our challenge starts on Saturday 21st August, so I’m starting to think about shopping and menus for the coming week.
Some staple items may be tricky? Has anyone found a source of Devon-produced milk, bread, cereals? Please click on ‘leave a comment’ to share ideas.
I’ve started asking some local shops if they will help explain where the food they sell is sourced. Interested ones based in Teignmouth so far include:
Redfern’s Butchers, Lloyd Maunder Butchers, Ruffles Delicatessen, Nutters, Poppadums, the Great Catch fish shop, Tibbs Greengrocers, the Home Made Bakery, the Owl and the Pussycat, Cubby Hole newsagents and the Co-op.
Please talk to your local suppliers and if they are willing to help, add them by clicking on ‘leave a comment’.
You can also download a copy of the Eat for Devon poster. Perhaps you could display one in your window?
Transition Network conference, June 2010
Lisa and Helen enjoyed a fascinating roller-coaster of learning experiences with over 300 delegates at the 2010 Transition Conference. The official conference details are available here: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/newsletter/2010-jun/june-2010-0
Teign Estuary Transition 