Wild mushrooms are becoming a little harder either with availability or with the quality that arrives! The plus side is that Chinese truffles have now joined Burgundy and white Alba and we should be supplying Perigord before the next newsletter!
We are moving further into the winter fruit now and this includes the arrivals of oranges, kiwi, Corsican clementine, more varieties of apples and stone fruit from Australia. Green Hayward kiwi and the slightly sweeter Summerkiwi® from France, yellow organic kiwi and popular Gold Kiwi from Italy.
We can now offer Spanish Navel oranges, but although the Salustiana juicing orange also appeared this week, the acidity is to high still to warrant a change from Southern Hemisphere fruit.
Small tray Primofiori lemons are back and the packaging of only twenty to a tray can really help some people with storage problems.
Goldrush apples are here. A freckled, blush skin with a sweet crunchy flesh.
This week will see the last day we supply baby leaf from our grower in Fontainebleau. Baby watercress will be the only product we are not able to replace, apart from that the rest of our baby leaf range will be kept but from different suppliers such as BOLE and Riez, and areas like Nice and Italy for the wild Roquette which already started this week. Our "Mesclun Superior" will be replaced by the mesclun "Japonais" composing of Mizuna, Tatsoi, Mustard, Pacshoi, red chard and baby Batavia; definitely our favourite mesclun of the year. Our mix baby leaf will be replaced by another mesclun called the "Nicois" which consists of young leaves of red oakleaf, green oakleaf, Tango, Batavia, red Batavia, cos lettuce, wild roquette, red chard and baby spinach.
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