In a move that should boost London's Borough Market plans are afoot to
establish a food school, a Food Centre of Excellence.It is planned that the Centre will promote healthy eating and offer courses for children on how to cook at home using seasonal foods. Borough Market is soon to be twinned with the wounderful La Boqueria Market in Barcelona which has its own food school. The one in Southwark would be self financing with a café and a boookshop but the Borough Market Trust, a registered charity, aims to raise £250,000 to refurbish a building occupying 1 Cathedral Street to create the Food School in.
Both the English and Spanish markets are applying for EU funding to support the twinning. They plan to mount exchange visits in which stallholders from the Catalan market would offer Spanish delicacies in Southwark and vice-versa.
La Boqueria, is a colourful covered market which operates 6
days a week just off Las Ramblas in the heart of Barcelona. The current structure dates from 1914, but the market's
history stretches back to the 13th century.
