Petica's posterous http://peticawatson.posterous.com a place to plonk stuff posterous.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:49:40 -0800 Local supermarkets and what to do with them http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2009/12/05/more-interesting-local-supermarkets-and-what-to-do-with-them http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2009/12/05/more-interesting-local-supermarkets-and-what-to-do-with-them I wish people would use their local shops more and not go to supermarkets so much. And I don't mean the posh new shops, I mean the ones that have been there all along. Living near the Harrow Road, we've got the Jamaican corner shop or the Indian or the Lebanese and I can get 20 times the amount of fennel seeds I could get in a supermarket, for 1 fifth of the price, or yoghurt, for half the price of Sainsbury's, or waaaaaay better value vegetables, or nuts and seeds, or honeyed baklava, or olives, or yam with the shopkeeper telling me what to do with it, and the shopkeeper knowing me. Perhaps when I've got time I could start an awareness campaign as part of our local transition movement. (www.ttkensaltokilburn.ning.com) Or I could film a portrait of the local shopkeepers and their lives here. Or get them to demo their family recipes on camera in their homes.

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