Take a ride on the wild side or Smells that time forgot

Hello there,



A warm welcome to all of you, just been reading my stats for this blog and it turns out there are quite a few of you reading from USA, Canada and India. Its been quiet this week on the cooking front, however tonight I did make a blackberry smoothie. Fresh berries from natures garden, milk and sugar. Replace the lost energy I use when cycling to work and back.



As I cycle home through some of the most run down parts of the town, which , by the way are also the most run down parts of the UK, I smell two distinctive smells of food. Something that many people might not notice as they drive everywhere or walk nowhere. What are these smells?







    deep fat fryers and toast, is this the smell of poverty in the UK today?  Or is this the smell of people that have no cooking skills? Or are these questions linked? Personally I think the later, the smells are surprising considering the ethnic mix. Or has time stood still in these streets for generations.



When you have little money , all you can afford are potatoes and bread. What is for certain is that messages for healthier living and eating are not getting through to those people at the very edges of society, and the worrying thing is is that this group of people is growing in size and becoming increasingly invisible to those that can afford to drive past these streets to supermarkets filled with the produce of a global market. It reflects the world in a way, the haves and the have nots. Next time you feel hungry (which I guess is not very often) leave the car and take a ride on the wild side, smell how others live. 



JK Lee