How to shop with the seasons

I didn’t know I’d be getting lunch when I went to meet Flora-From-Natoora at their Sloane Street store, but she made a magnificent salad whilst we discussed ways that we, as shoppers, can make choices that are sustainable as well as delicious when buying fruit and veg.

I hope you enjoy this chat which is full of practical tips and info (as opposed, I hope, to idealised politics and virtue-signalling as these debates sometimes are). I’d be really interested to know what you think and your views on these thorny issues, so do leave a comment:

Show Notes

Natoora supplies radically seasonal (see interview for a explanation of what that means) fruit and veg, as well as bread, charcuterie, dairy, and more, to 1000 restaurants in London but also to consumers via Ocado, Waitrose and Natoora stores and home delivery app.

Flora Donovan is Training and Research Manager at Natoora. She also trained at Leith’s School of Food and Wine, is a trustee of TastEd and an around good egg.

And here is the very simple but splendid dish she assembled as we chatted:

Tomato, peach and burrata salad

Serves 2

• 2-3 tomatoes

• 1 peach or nectarine

• 1 apricot (from Kent)

• Best quality olive oil

• Salt

• 1 burrata

• A few basil leaves

Nothing to do but roughly slice the tomatoes and the fruit, douse in olive oil, season with salt, the top with the basil and burrata and tuck in.