Columnist reflects on food stockpiling after eight-hour power cut

A Guardian food column argues that an emergency needs a deep pantry rather than a few specialty items like blue cheese and sardines, based on the writer's experience of an eight-hour power cut on the North Sea coast. Only one item was available, so this is a single personal account.

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1. 29 Oct, 12:35 UTCFirst appeared on The Guardian

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• What an eight-hour power cut taught me about food stockpilingThe Guardian