I was just wondering, if you are really passionate about cooking or baking, how far would you travel to buy your ingredients ?

I ask because I once made a delia smith lime and coconut pie when some friends came over, the only thing was I had to travel to Nottingham (with a newborn baby in tow) to buy the cream of coconut which the recipe demands. :confused:

How far have you travelled for ingredients ?

I don't think i've travelled that far really. I go to Chatsworth quite regularly for meat but otherwise i don't think i've ever needed anything that has required me to travel out of the city. If i was planning something in advance i would go and get something on-line probably, there are some really good Spanish and Italian delis on the internet.

That said, i went to Florence a couple of years ago and dragged most of a suitcase home with me full of food. By far the best thing i got was a bag of crushed chillis which i have only just finished and used every week in tomato sauces for pasta. They were very strong so you only needed a pinch. Finances permitting, i would happily fly over for a weekend on a food mission (eating and buying!)

I once drove to Ilkley for sausages. I'd found out online that they had won the Yorkshire sausage champion for about 3 years so ventured up there with my brother and bought a pound of each flavour, I think I ended up with about 8lb of them. They were scrummy though.

I regularly drive 125 miles each way to buy meat and game from a shop in Stow-on-the-Wold.

Actually I don't really. But I do go to Stow quite a lot and always take a cold bag and stock up, there's an especially good butcher there. Gloucester Old Spot pork chops ... mmmmm ....