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Welcome to Lewes Food Market
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The pumpkins are back in town...
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When you scoop the flesh out of your halloween pumpkin make sure it is saved. Previous years have seen a huge waste of pumpkin as halloween jack o lanterns are carved and the flesh thrown away. A staggering figure of 18,000 tonnes was estimated to be thrown away last year! A 2015 survey noted that over 50% of respondents would have used the flesh and seeds if they knew how. So below are a couple of recipes from different cultures that show the diversity of the pumpkin.
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Ashurst Organics Pumpkins
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Pumpkin soup works beautifully with the Thai flavours of coconut, lemon grass, kefir lime leaves, chilli and basil. Sikil P'ak a pumpkin seed dip from Mexico makes a nutritious spicy dip. In the Indian lentil stew the wonderful spices are absorbed by the pumpkin, any leftovers are even better the next day. Bread, in many cultures, is a great way of using up leftovers from lentils to beer to seeds, the pumpkin puree gives the rolls a golden hue.
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In season now
Onions, leeks, cabbages, chard, kale, beetroot, carrots and tomatoes, squashes and pumpkins, swede and celeriac, jerusalem artichokes, sweetcorn, wild mushrooms, cobnuts, walnuts, hazelnuts and chestnuts, apples, blackberries, sloes, quince and pears. Sea bass, haddock, Dover sole, scallops, mussels, crab, lobster and oysters.
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Fresh, artisan breads - every Friday
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Flint Owl Bakery breads are handcrafted and baked in small batch sizes using high quality, organic ingredients.
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Photograph by Jazmin van Breda
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Fresh, local fruits - every Friday
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Delicious apples from Greenway Fruit Farm.
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Photograph by Jazmin van Breda
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Fresh, locally made dishes to take home - every Friday
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Kabak: Lewes-based catering outfit specialising in dishes inspired by Middle Eastern and North African cooking.
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Our stallholders can proudly tell you where and how their foods were farmed or processed as well as give you cooking advice and recipes.
Lewes Food Market offers an abundance of high quality food brought from local producers. You'll find a wide range of competitively priced, fresh produce so you can do your weekly shopping at the market.
By shopping at Lewes Food Market, you’re helping to maintain the viability of our local producers and so sustaining and protecting our local food supplies.
You’re also using fewer food miles so you are helping to protect the environment. Shopping regularly at Lewes Food Market is fun and relaxing – just the place to meet up with old friends and make some new ones.
Lewes Food Market is the result of a partnership between Transition Town Lewes,
the Lewes Town Partnership and Lewes District Council.
Photographs copyright Edward Reeves and Julia Waterlow
