Wandability

Hugh Pennington

  • Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets by Joanna Blythman
    Fourth Estate, 368 pp, £12.99, May 2004, ISBN 0 00 715803 3
  • Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence
    Penguin, 272 pp, £7.99, May 2004, ISBN 0 14 101566 7
  • Food Policy Old and New edited by Simon Maxwell and Rachel Slater
    Blackwell, 184 pp, £19.99, March 2004, ISBN 1 4051 2602 7

Joanna Blythman does not like supermarkets. The bigger they are, the greater her hatred. She says they are responsible for the slow death of community life. They take the skill out of shopping. They subvert home cooking. They have done away with seasonal variety. Their buyers are bullied by their superiors to bully their suppliers. Supermarkets have an obsession with hygiene at the expense of food quality. They sell squidgy bread. And they call their staff ‘colleagues’.

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