BBC Good Food Magazine

Nothing beats face-to-face shopping

@JoannaBlythman

was ever so grateful for online shopping during the lockdown. What a relief it was to avoid those socially-distanced queues. And the opportunity to support small producers was an added bonus. Restaurants closed almost overnight, plunging their suppliers into crisis. Cheesemakers, for instance, reported a terrifying 80-90 per cent slump in sales. Fish merchants lost the chefs who normally snapped up most of

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