The Low-Carbon Christmas ; the Supermarket Delivery Slots Are Full and Many Suppliers Have Already Closed Their Order Books. So Why Not Go Local Instead and Do the Festive Shop Using Our Experts' Special Guide to the Best of British Produce? You'll Support Small Shops, Reduce Air Milesand Cut Your Stress Levels, Too

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OLIVER ROWE'S CHRISTMAS FOOD GUIDE

Christmas WHEN Oliver Rowe opened his restaurant Konstam in 2006, in the former Prince Albert pub in King's Cross, he tested the idea that we should eat local, seasonal food. The 34-year-old Londoner sourced as much fresh produce as possible within a circle bounded by Amersham, the most distant point on the Tube. He found flour in Dartmouth, meat from Sevenoaks, honey in Tower Hill, wine in Surrey. "But I can't cook without lemons," he says, "so certain things like that [and coffee, oranges, pepper, spices] have to be imported." It's better, Rowe suggests, to stick if you can to the spirit of seasonality than be hardline about it. He's approaching the Rowe family Christmas dinner the same way.

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The Low-Carbon Christmas ; the Supermarket Delivery Slots Are Full and Many Suppliers Have Already Closed Their Order Books. So Why Not Go Local Instead and Do the Festive Shop Using Our Experts' Special Guide to the Best of British Produce? You'll Support Small Shops, Reduce Air Milesand Cut Your Stress Levels, Too

It's a philosophy that sounds puritanical and hard to follow. Only the greenest shopper would stick to his rules, but this approach make sense. It avoids t...

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