Observer Food Monthly
Your plaice or mine ?
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Day three
Thank heavens, then, for Kudos Foods. The company produces ready-meals using (as far as possible) local produce. Tonight's feast, again delivered to my door, includes a red onion and goats' cheese quiche using Golden Cross cheese by Kevin and Alison Blunt; chicken with tarragon, featuring a bird that lived in nearby Hassocks; Tuscan-style Sussex lamb, with meat from Gote Farm on the Glyndebourne Estate, and a famous local delicacy - Ripe Tart - from an old recipe resurrected by Kudos. This, I muse while shovelling quiche into my mouth, is the convenience food of the future: no mess, no fuss, no preservatives, and - crucially - no guilt. 'As I see it,' says owner Avril Clarke, 'Our competitors are M&S and the supermarket ranges... but we're contributing to reducing car use by feeding 40 people a night from just one van.' I salute her with a fortifying beaker of Breaky Bottom wine from Peter Hall's beautiful vineyard snuck into a dip in the Downs. All this integrity, and I have barely moved from the sofa. Genius. Bill: £31.80

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