Local foods & the Samphire Man

Picture: Lynn News

There's a lot of talk about LOCAL FOODS, and reducing FOOD MILES (although my food workshop at the GA Conference will be 'critical' of that notion...)

Some food also has PROTECTED GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION status (PGI)

My local paper, the "Lynn News" today carried sad news of the death of Henry Dewson, who was known locally as "the Samphire Man".
I remember heading off for a field trip some years ago in the school minibus. A colleague was driving, and as we were heading out of town he suddenly pulled into a layby and ran across 3 lanes of traffic towards a horse drawn cart "parked" over the road (see picture in top hyperlink as it was the same one) and came back with a parcel wrapped in newspaper...
He'd just bought samphire: a plant which grows on the local salt marshes, and which was one of the indicator species on our coastal field trips.

Local foods for local people...

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