“I had a new crop that could cope with hot dry weather, and it would make flour that’s jolly popular with those who enjoy a doner kebab after a pint.That’s a double top.“As you can’t easily buy durum seed in Britain, I placed my order, through a complicated chain of middlemen, with a French seed breeder in the Rhône Valley.
And very soon, three tonnes of the stuff arrived in Calais, where it got stuck in a jungle of red tape.“The French customs said it would not be released until they were given the consignment’s EORI number, and no one on this side of the channel had the first clue what that was. “And there was no point asking the French for clarification because all you get is the Gallic shrug, a universally recognised symbol of.