What we eat is a fragile resource, and current shortages remind us just how precious it is, says Emma Beddington
Spread thinly: a mustard shop in Dijon.Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/Getty Images’ve been thinking about mustard recently. I mean, I’m always thinking about some kind of food. Between words today, I have been plotting my snack reward for going to the post office and thinking about dinner . I have studied the menu of a restaurant I have no plans to eat at and browsed Instagram shots of multiple bakeries, picking my top pastry at each.
But I’ve been thinking about food differently recently, about the fragility of it, and the many things that need to go just right for us to have a Twix, or a bag of salad, or a jar of mustard, or whatever else we reach for unthinkingly in the supermarket . Good luck reaching for dijon right now. There probably isn’t any and it won’t be back until November, on current predictions: last year’s Canadian heatwave halved the seed harvest.
Obviously, no one dies of condiment deprivation, so it’s an OK kind of shortage, softened by a raft of mustard TikToks of
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