food (was: Wizard stores/ Starving artists

[Rita Winston]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Scott" <insanus_scottus at y...> wrote:
> 
> I'm still curious about food, b/c I don't think that it's generated. 
> I want to know whether, for instance, wine comes from wizarding 
> vineyards or muggle ones. What about cheese etc? I'm itching to 
> know...I get the feeling no one else is that curious.

I also want to know. If the food is grown by Muggle farmers, 1) do 
the wizarding folk have opinions about organic, pesticides, GM 
food? 2) the product must cross to the wizarding economy at 
some point, and it seems unlikely that someone like Mrs 
Weasley would shop in a Muggle supermarket with Muggle money, 
are there wizarding middlemen who buy the product from Muggle small 
farmers and sell it to wizarding small greengrocer, butcher, etc 
shops?

If the wizarding folk's food comes from wizarding farmers, JKR 
could perfectly well tell us about it, by having Our Heroes 
accompany a school friend home to the famiy farm.