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I am home alone and I just ate two hotdogs in bread for dinner. With five small tomatoes. Not at all a dinner as I like to have it. Not at all a dinner according to the rules I´ve set for my kitchen. But rules can be broken, I am not hungry any more and I actually liked the sausages.
I have in previous posts written about fast food versus slow food, local food versus food which has travelled a long way, cheap no good food versus I want the best and I pay for it food.
Buying groceries in Norway almost always means visiting one of the actually quite few chain stores, where people want their food as cheap as possible, and the quality often depends on that.
Food means a lot to me. Ok, there can still be days with two hotdogs, may be........... but most of all I want the best ingredients. Herbs from my garden, vegetables, cheese, fish and meat fresh from the market. I want to smell of herbs like I was coming directly from India, I want scales from the fish on my fingers, blood from the meat on my hands. I want to knead my own dught, bake my own bread.
Luckily the trend is changing, although slowly. We are more aware of what we eat, more aware of the ethics, the sustainability, the climate.
A week in Lofoten was a feast for the palate. The photos today are from one of the restaurants we visited, Underhuset. Local fish everywhere. Prepared by the best chefs.
The title of this post is from a book I bought recently, and will start to read today. Faith in Food, Changing the world one meal at a time, by Susie Weldon and Sue Campbell with a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. Behind the book is ARC, Alliance of Religions and Conservation.
I plan to tell you more about the book after I´ve read it, and I´ll post food tales in the new category Faith in Food here on Britt-Arnhild´s House in the Woods.
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