Currious, are you from the UK?
I am very interested to find out what the best local substitutes are for the foreign foods, unfortunatly at the moment i think i may be a bit intolerant of wheat! What fermented food do we have in the uk? whats beans do we have? are wheat and barley the only grains, whats best for regular consumption?
The reason i want local is not primarily a health issue, it is more of an enviromental one, how many miles did my food travel to get here? how much oil was burned? Also, though we are fortunate in that we can get foods from abroad cheaply at the moment, i very much doubt that in the future this will be so. (heard of oil production peaking anyone? -
http://www.fuellingthefuture.org/faq.htm) Of course, our health very much depends on the environment we live in, and the health of the world as a whole.
Thankyou for the link - it looks like i will have to make time to read this!
Thanks
Mark