To everything there was a season: deconstructing UK food availability

• DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-5740.2001.00010.x
• Publication Date: 2003-03-11T21:18:49Z
• Authors: Anne Colquhoun; Phil Lyon
• Keywords: Famine; Seasonality; Food supply; Food Prices; Food distribution

Abstract For a considerable period of time, the UK has had largely inflexible relationship between seasons and availability many foods. Plants, with their constituent fruits, foliage roots, provide numerous examples seasonality in diet. In this, both plant seasonal meat/fish variability, gives cadence to year as well potential for problems glut famine. Historically, at one extreme, problem been preserve excesses avoid starvation when food supply is predictably problematic. As an adjunct, people were also able extend pleasures particular foods greater part year. Now, start new millennium, effectiveness preservation distribution techniques such that most commodities are available time. this paper, we map progress attempts ensure security ask, by reference UK, if not expense novelty appreciation seasonality.