It's about much more than food.

"The central question of Saunders’ life is what happens when you try to create an alternative and it becomes so successful that it is co-opted by other people into the dominant culture."

Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food | Food | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/jan/23/nicholas-saunders-forgotten-genius-changed-british-food

#NicholasSaunders #AlternativeLondon #NealsYard #BoroughMarket #MDMA

Depressed that I can't find anything on the internet about an event I attended with @kleptones & others in either 1996 or 1997 in #Brighton at the #BrightonDome which featured #TerenceMcKenna via video link & #RobertAntonWilson & #NicholasSaunders in person speaking about #psychedelics, #history, #consciousness and #death

I might have to go in to the attic and start digging in the archives to see if I can find any paper relics of this remarkable occasion.

Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food | …I was vaguely aware of Nicholas Saunders but had no idea of the extent of his impact on British food – and where we are now

An excellent little reader on one person and how they influenced foodie Britain, bootstrapping both Neal’s Yard and Borough Market and many of the retailers which got their start there:

Malcolm Veigas, an assistant director with Bolton Council, once gave an interview to the BBC’s Food Programme in which he cited Borough as the lightbulb moment for councils that wanted to harness the new interest in food to rejuvenate their areas. “Market professionals up and down the country, when they heard about what was going on in the Borough, realised that the future of retail markets in the UK was going to be predicated on food.”

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/jan/23/nicholas-saunders-forgotten-genius-changed-british-food

https://alecmuffett.com/article/108961

#food #nicholasSaunders #stuffToRead