Corridor Kitchen » supermarkets http://www.corridorkitchen.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 On ‘ugly’ fruit and natural disasters http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/02/ugly-fruit-and-natural-disasters/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/02/ugly-fruit-and-natural-disasters/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:02:17 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=625 I am ashamed to admit that the only thing I remember of Cyclone Larry is that it meant I could no longer afford bananas. Suddenly they were a luxury item at around $14/kilo. I remember the café I worked at having to pay more for a loaf of banana bread than I’ve seen before or since. What I didn’t know at the time was that my definition of banana may differ from that of the major supermarkets. But more on that later.

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With all these natural disasters recently, there seems to be one issue (besides donations and tax levies) that the media uses to relate to those of us on the outside looking in: food prices. Articles on the impact of flooding and cyclone Yasi on fruit, vegetable and sugar cane crops in the immediate future and on the price of winter produce in the months to come, not to mention the loss to our coal and tourism industries, abound.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/02/ugly-fruit-and-natural-disasters/feed/ 7