Food from Around the World

Photo Album: Imported Food

Not much food grows here in the Faroe Islands, and on my last trip to the grocery store I looked around to find out where it comes from. Here is a list of some of the foods that I saw in one little store:

pears from Holland

broccoli from Spain

red grapes from Chile

green grapes from India

limes from Brazil

pineapple from Panama

garlic from China

mushrooms from Holland

ginger from China

baby ears of corn from Thailand

nectarines from Colombia

bell peppers from Holland

tomatoes from Holland and Denmark

lamb from New Zealand

ground beef from New Zealand

I hope that the fruits and vegetables have an easier flight to the Faroe Islands than I usually do, but maybe they get special treatment. A six hour lay-over in the Copenhagen airport always makes me feel very wilted. The lamb and beef from New Zealand have come as far as anything can possibly travel and still remain on earth. New Zealand is almost exactly on the opposite side of the world from the Faroe Islands.

With the cost of travel, it isn’t too surprising that food is very expensive in the Faroes. When I shop for groceries, I try to ignore the exchange rate for krónur to dollars and don’t even think about the cost of a leg of lamb. It is a bit ironic that there are sheep all over the hillsides, out every window in my house, but the leg of lamb came from the other side of the world. In October, some of the lamb will be from the Faroes and some from Iceland, but this time of year it comes from the Southern Hemisphere.

Posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 7:52 pm; Category: General.
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