My new discovery at the Islington Farmers’ Market this past Sunday was organic British mozzarella di bufala from Higher Alham Farm, Shepton Mallet, Somerset. The suggestion of buffalo mozzarella from Cheddar cheese country appealed to me. Hadn’t Chris Arnot written good things about Higher Alham in the Independent? I decided to try the UK mozza atop my weekly homemade Margherita pizza and enhance my organic/local sourcing credentials. My iPhone calculated a distance of 202km between Islington and Shepton Mallet, whereas the route from Islington to Caserta, Italy covered 2,017 km. My net savings: 1,128 food miles. [Read more...]