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...]
My first – and last – pizza made with mozzarella from British buffaloes
24 March 2009 By 6 Comments
My Tomato Bum Fetish
Having not yet fully grasped the contours of the seasons as they exist in the UK, I may have waited too long for the summer of 2008, which, had it ever arrived, would have marked my fourth summer since moving from New York to London. But now that the two-digit dates of September are here, I am prepared to accept the obvious and pack up my unused, unwrinkled Agnes B. beige linen suit for ‘winter’. I will, nevertheless, hold off on my ‘autumn’ menus and cling like shrink wrap to tomato season for as long as it lasts. [Read more...]
12 September 2008 By 4 Comments
