McCain joins Hovis in dropping promised 100% British sourcing after poor harvest j.mp/WYILdp

(McCain, world's largest producer of chips, buys 12% of the British potato crop) j.mp/WkXm6P

Don't miss the Cook supplement in this Saturday's Guardian! "The return of the fava bean" Word of Mouth

Call for sugary drinks duty in Budget 2013 to improve children's health with free school meals... - hy-pop-ecated tax? j.mp/WddgR7

Food Standards Agency to prosecute farmer Hook & Son and Selfridges over raw milk vending machine j.mp/Wr9u5L

Growing Success: impact of Capital Growth community food growing campaign - food, friends, safety, biodiversity.. j.mp/XrxCnn

Shrewd analysis of #horsegate by Stephen Jardine Horsemeat scandal is the price of trying to produce food on the cheap dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-…

Full-page ad from Burger King on #horseburger today.

MT Continental Kitchen Julia Glotz the answer to all this is make your own from ground beef from a good local butcher >> Hear, hear!

Iain fm Stocks Farm talks about starting their small fm from scratch - bit.ly/Ypd7bQ Buy their produce at Stoke Newington FMkt on Sat

...or "The renaissance of an ancient bean" - Hodmedod in the print edition of today's The Guardian Cook... fb.me/2cnjCASRe

Prime cuts: Food Ethics Council WWF UK report on eating less but better meat, including 9 ways to define "better" j.mp/XRYw6c

Nutmeg in its "apricot" in Grenada - mace still crimson.

A confident food choice: all organic food must "be fully traceable back to the farm" - Rob Sexton of Soil Association j.mp/14HQrqM

'Vapours rise like the windy excretions of a cat' Amol Rajan on crisps The Independent independent.co.uk/life-style/foo…

Improvised polytunnel on the derelict Heygate estate in south London #urbanveg j.mp/Yyr35y

"English mustard was at the point where it nearly died": the East Anglian farmers who grow most of Colman's mustard farmersguardian.com/home/arable/ho…

Summer of Soil, 7 Jul - 9 Aug, Järna, Sweden: inspiring a collaborative movement to rebuild & maintain living soils j.mp/12Tg8Tm

WW2 food advice - buy with thought, cook with care, less wheat & meat, buy local, serve just enough, use what's left j.mp/18RrT0P

Guess which country has the largest confectionery aisles... j.mp/15TeUJX