100 Mile Diet, Meet Oliver Rowe: Restaurant Serves Local Food
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 02. 9.06
We have covered the 100 mile diet, where Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon are spending a year eating food from within a hundred miles of thier home. Restauranteur Oliver Rowe is taking the concept to a whole new level- he is opening up a restaurant where every ingredient comes from within the M25, a ring road around London. He is making his own oil from local rapeseed (canola) as an olive oil substitute; has found a local sparking wine, , flour ground in Ponders End and honey produced in Tower Hill. "I have found a mushroom farm in East Ham, fish from the Thames, a fantastic farm with lamb and pigs at Amersham and an ostrich farm in south-west London." He cheats a bit- coffee, tea and pepper; Salt is from Essex. Currently Oliver runs a popular pub called Konstam (in picture)- Konstam at the Prince Albert opens next month. ::Evening Standard
Read about the 100 mile diet, part 1 and part 2 and other posts about the benefits of local food. and don't forget localunch.
The links to parts one and two of the 100 Mile Diet are in the article. Here is the link to part ten. At the bottom of part ten are the links to parts one through nine. Enjoy!
http://thetyee.ca/Life/2006/01/25/Incredible100MileDiet/
We heard about our project recently on some work you did locally. I would really like to talk to you about Deptford, its high street and local produce. We are currently working on a Food Trail for our Made in Deptford Festival (second year. This area has such a diverse culture and was voted by Yell.Com the most diverse high street in London.
You can contact me on jo.middleton@lewisham.gov.uk or 0208 314 3674 mob 07985 213061 if you are interested in this area.
Kind regards
Jo Middleton
Town Centre Development Officer
London Borough of Lewisham