Food & Drink
It’s hard to avoid food miles in winter if you want to add some sunshine to your plate
Carina Contini adds colour to the plate, plus Rose Murray Brown on wines from around the world
Over the autumn and winter months it’s always harder to feel satisfied with your diet and comfort food is required to keep you going. This is especially true when you try to minimise air miles, as the range of fruit and vegetables grown in Scotland at this time of year can be limited.
My home shopping origin list does stretch slightly further afield to sunnier climes over these drearier months as I know, for the sake of my health and wellbeing, I need to find sunshine somewhere and it’s usually only via food as no transatlantic trips are on the horizon.
If you stay within Europe (which I’m still hoping we will post-brexit) peppers, tomatoes, aubergines and courgettes are readily available. Bulked out with root vegetables from home it’s easy to get your daily allowance of tasty vegetables.
Food is one area in which we can all make sustainable choices. I’ll stick to the food moral high ground over the summer, but I do admit to closing my eyes slightly over the winter to get that little taste of sunshine. n