Not quite coals to Newcastle, but a story which was in the Daily Mail today regarding the pointy vegetable...Asparagus is grown in England, and it has a short season. Here's some I bought earlier... You'll notice it wasn't from England...
The story concerns the fact that the asparagus is arriving into Evesham (where much of England's asparagus is grown) from Peru. You'll notice that it's not just the supermarket featured in the article that imports asparagus.
There has been no end of similar stories relating to the sourcing of food locally... The Summer 2010 issue of 'Geography' is on the theme of food - more on that in a future blog post...
Image by Alan Parkinson
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