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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Gillian Kynoch visits Dundee food project

Scotland's Food and Health Co-ordinator visited the Healthy Cooking Co-operative at the Bridge Project in Dundee, as part of this year's Scottish Food Fortnight (SFF).

Ms Kynoch witnessed the work of the co-operative, which links local farmers from the Angus area with local consumers in Dundee in an effort to supply fresh fruit and vegetables to the local community along with recipes, cooking tips and nutritional information.

'I'm delighted to see the innovative work which is under way at this Dundee project and the links which have been established between local farmers and the rest of the community,' she said. 'It will be decades before we undo the damage done by our neglect of the Scottish diet but I am convinced that the tide has turned now. People are far more interested in their food nowadays, where it comes from and what is in it.
Local healthy food is becoming a part of every day life in Scotland and projects like this one in Dundee help to spread that revolution and ensures that affordable, healthy local food can be on everybody's plate.'

The Dundee project and SFF are both supported by the Scottish Countryside Alliance Educational Trust (SCAET).

Tony Andrews, chairman of SCAET (pictured with Gillian Kynoch and Andrew Greaves, Minister at Dundee West Church), said: 'The aim of SCAET is to reconnect the people of Scotland with their countryside and one of the best ways of doing this is to promote fresh local produce. Both the Dundee Food Co-op and Scottish Food Fortnight are great examples of this idea in action.'

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