BBC Good Food Magazine

My charter for a brighter food future

What a year 2020 was! Last January we had no idea that the tectonic plates of our lives were about to shift and affect us all so profoundly. For the first time since World War Two, we worried for a time about finding enough food to eat. Weak points were exposed when our modern food supply system was put to the test. Anyone want to revisit that unsettling experience? Not me.

Our shopping and eating habits had to change abruptly. We cooked and baked more at home. We ate out less. Now, my heartfelt wish for this year is that we’ll move forward, having learnt from our collective experience how to build more food resilience into our daily lives, fuelled by a plucky determination to retain the good features of our 2020

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