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Thursday, 7 July, 2011
Food Scout: WRS fan creates tasty 'food from the land' near Geneva
This week Amy Eber visits a longtime WRS listener, Virgina Ward, who turned a hobby for cooking up delectable food into a small business. Ward lives in a rural agricultural village, about 30 minutes outside Geneva. She produces mainly seasonal soups, jams and chutneys, using local ingredients as much as possible. Her new website, The Adaptable Friend, promotes terroir cuisine (food from the land) and eating locally. The site, currently under development, also uncovers the links between what we eat and the history behind the ingredients used and dishes prepared:
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An orchard amid the mountains. Longtime WRS listener Virginia Wade, who lives in a rural retreat near Geneva, uses local fruit and vegetables to make appetizing soup, jams and chutney. (Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott)
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