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Local supermarket launches mission

A new supermarket has launched in the North East offering food sourced from small, local producers. The new shop, mmm…, has been opened in Newcastle’s Grainger Market by Simone Clarkin.

Clarkin has lived in Newcastle for six years, but was originally born in New Zealand and has previously lived in Russia, Italy and London. She has a background in imported foods but has turned her attention to food grown in the North East and Cumbria. Her aim is to encourage shoppers to consider where the food is from, and how this affects communities.

mmm… also sells food from elsewhere in the UK and across the world, produced in small, artisan organic cooperatives and fair trade farms. Suppliers range from a Northumbrian chilli sauce company called Trees Can’t Dance, to stone-ground organic flours from The Watermill at Little Sakeld in Cumbria.

Clarkin said: “Many of our products are handmade locally using traditional methods with the finest natural ingredients, meaning you can truly taste the difference.”

Her plans for the future include stocking spices from a Goan spice farm and hosting cookery demonstrations from local chefs. She hopes to form links with other producers in the region.

For more information visit www.mmm-food.co.uk or call 07801 357314.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .