Just had a request from the other side of the world about what my thoughts are on where the future of Good Food is going.

It set me off on a bit of a rant which you may find interesting....or not.
Would like some thoughts re: this interesting subject!

I believe we are at a brink of the unknown in our society. We are living on a £ trillion+?? debt mountain and only an idiot cannot see that a £ trillion is an unredeemable figure in real solid monetary terms.

Our society is based on borrowed promissory notes that we all pay enormous promissory note interest on!

When it all boils down, if this very precarious position started to collapse, the majority of people would starve. We are far too dependent on our food being brought to us via the Juggernaut and the freeway.

Basically I am interested in the foods that people would have to find and prepare if there were no such thing as a supermarket with food in stock. Just as Russians had to deal with a decade or so ago.

For me the future of Good Food is knowing how to make and maintain a stock pot, how to find and prepare food from the wild and from home grown sources. Unfortunately, as in Russia, our society is no longer able physically or mentally to do this unless the people are very rich (landowners) who shoot game or they are poor and live in remote country areas.

If you have productive land in an area near town under the circumstances mentioned above everything you produced would be stolen overnight.

Catching and preparing food from the wild seems to have been bred out of today's youth. The very idea is an anathema to them. I wonder how many could find wild garlic on the way to school the way we used to?

I would like to see the walk-in larder with the cold meat safe built in (zinc box on a north facing wall) being incorporated in new homes again.

I would like to see the demise of the most useless and dangerous piece of home equipment the refrigerator. The greatest bug store ever invented.

I would like to see people stock up on staple foods like flour grain and beans with good cooking fat
and learn how to cook properly from scratch.

I would be glad to see the supermarkets fall so that we would no longer be inflicted with products in pretty packaging that consist of unwanted by-products from some other industry.
We would be better off eating the packs!

At one point in time The UK was considered the finest producer of foods and had the most productive farm lands Our lamb and beef had no equal for its type. It seems that generations of techniques and fine stock breeding have been thrown out of the window in recent years.

Attitudes are so ridiculous, for instance people are ranting on and on about free range chicken; yet the eradication of the red fox from the UK (an introduced species by the way) which would go a very long way to ensuring all poultry could affordably be free range. would have people up in arms in protest.
How do they imagine that the French can produce the most magnificent and flavorful birds for a reasonable price..... they don't have marauding verminous foxes attacking everything from the pet rabbit to every hen in the yard