Hansen & Lyderson – Based in Stoke Newington, Hansen & Lydersen use an old-style smoking kiln and produce their salmon according to the long-standing smoking traditions that have made their family’s success in Kirkenes, Northern Norway. Every salmon is prepared less than 48 hours after it has been fished. After being carefully hand-filleted and cured with rock salt, every fish is traditionally hung and slowly cold-smoked at the smokehouse in Stoke Newington before being sliced into thick meaty slices. Ole Martin-Hansen smokes his salmon in east London, but the recipe comes from his great-grandfather, the first of four generations of Norwegian salmon smokers, using a special family recipe including juniper and beech wood. Available in some of the best restaurants, and to buy online.
Infinity Foods, Brighton – We love Infinity for bulk buying dry goods and harder to find ingredients. They’re our main pantry ingredient supplier since we started the business started 5 years ago. You’’ll find their label in health food shops all over. From Kombucha to cleaning products, they’re our go-to supplier for organic, fair trade and ethically sourced products.
Wild Beef Company (Lizzy and Richard Vines) – Founded on old-fashioned farming methods, Wild Beef produced high quality, grass fed, organic beef. Their animals lead an ideal, unhurried existence, browsing the moors and meadows. They thrive on the unploughed grasses, herbs, weeds and shrubs that root deeply on the unimproved meadows and chalk downs of Wiltshire and peat uplands of Dartmoor, Devon. By raising the animals on nutrient-rich unimproved pastures the minerals and trace elements are retained in the beef. As all food originates in the soil, it follows that the soil with the greatest fertility (minerals and trace elements) will produce food of the highest nutritional worth. Available in Somerset, London’s Broadway and Borough markets and online, we love using their produce for some of our favourite dishes such as Bone Broth, Bone Marrow and Courgetti Ragu. Perfect for winter.
Hook and Son – Purveyors of raw, organic dairy, the Hook family have been farming in East Sussex for at least 250 years. Their product is fresh, unhomogenised and unpasteurised, just as nature intended. We love Hook and Son for delicious grass-fed milk, butter and ghee. Their product is available through their website and at Borough Market, London.
Riverford Organic Farms – We’re big fans of Riverford Vegetable boxes and have been buying from them since our mum introduced us to them 10 years ago. Having organic fruit and vegetables delivered straight to your door is a simple and efficient way to enjoy a variety of fresh, seasonal produce weekly. Eating seasonally is a fun, nutritious way to enjoy the best of what’s in season. It encourages you to cook with ingredients you’ve perhaps never tried and to be creative in the dishes that you create. Eating this way also exposes you to a myriad of nutrients and ingredients that may not be commercially available in supermarkets. We took a trip to Riverford Farm to discover the farm, their philosophy and practice, and of course, to cook a delicious Courgetti Ragu using products straight from the farm. View the video here.
Kernow Sashimi - Sustainable and ethically caught is what Cornwall fisherman Chris Bean prides himself on. Fishing for 42 years, Chris arrived in this position by default and carried on. Always wanting a job with ‘hairs on its chest’, sustainable fishing fit the bill. Fishing (as opposed to farming) doesn’t disturb the natural order of things. Chris, is now their sole fisherman as opposed to using offshore product.
Brambletye Fruit Farm and Orchard Eggs – One of the UK’s few biodynamic farms. The farm supplied fruit and eggs to farmers’ markets, supermarkets and local independents. Founded on traditional farming methods, the chickens eat their food from the orchard floor and fertiliser is then put back into the land creating a sustainable cycle. Their produce is stocked at some of our favourite markets such as Maltby Street and Borough. We were lucky enough to take a trip to Brambletye lane for a tour of the orchards with Stein and Ellie.
Blackwoods Cheese Company – Developed in 2013, Blackwoods is an artisan cheese producer based in Brockley, London. All their cheeses are handmade using organic raw cows’ milk, collected from Commonwork Organic Farm in Kent. Run by partners David Holton, Rory Holwerda and Cameron Rowan, they boast over ten years combined experience in the making, maturing and selling of artisan cheeses.
Natoora Vegetables – Natoora was founded in 2001 in Paris with a network of 120 French farmers delivering fresh food to Paris and later the whole of France. In 2004, the concept was brought across the Channel, enabling us to access the same fresh food in London. They offer quality produce from markets of France, Italy and Britain, straight to your kitchen!
Baldwins – Jasmine’s local health food shop that was established in 1844. We come here to try out new health food brands, pick up essential oils, eco cleaning products and cold pressed oils such as sweet almond and sesame oil to make cost effective body oils and pick up some sauerkraut if we run out unexpectedly from our own homemade batches.