Friday 27 November 2009

Christmas Food Miles for Channel 4 Food

"Friends and relatives travel a long way for Christmas lunch, but you don’t necessarily want the same to be true of your food. Craig Butcher gets the low down for 4Food on which supermarkets lead the way in minimising Christmas lunch food miles.

Whole turkey
Nothing says Christmas Day lunch better than the centrepiece of the occasion - the bird. Waitrose sources its free-range turkeys from Lincolnshire although some also come from Wicklow in Ireland. ASDA’s turkeys travel from Norwich and Sainsbury’s most popular turkey is also reared in Norfolk. Marks & Spencer’s Simply Food whole turkey travels from Pembrokeshire."

To read the full article on Christmas dinner food miles by freelance food and drink journalist Craig Butcher for the Channel 4 Food website, click here

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