Smoking Indoors
It has been some ten years since my move to Dorset from London and not a day goes by when I don’t count my foodie blessings. In deciding where to go my arm hovered over the map of west Dorset Read more »
Food
A selection of articles about local food producers, retailers, chefs and those supporting the local food and farming industry.
Romy Fraser
T.S. Elliot maintained that ‘April is the cruellest month.’ This year it was plain crazy, setting the record as the wettest April for 125 years while we were also officially in drought. When the deluge finally abated and the arks Read more »
Good Life Wife 07/12
The local pre-school is a treasured place where Groovy Youngest goes to play and learn—and give me a break from the Vale’s chattiest four-year-old philosophising naturalist. “Mummy this is what a flower looks like when it closes up ALL its Read more »
Join the Queue
You can wait a long time for a bus to come along and then a whole lot arrive at once. And in the food world that is happening now. The hot ticket at the moment is food made and sold Read more »
Clare Burnet
“I came to this business partly because of a love of food which I blame on my mother. She’s a complete foodie. I was born in Singapore and my parents met and married out there. My mum was really into Read more »
Rose Prince
“Several things in my life turned me into a cook. I grew up in the country but wasn’t horsey or interested in country sports so I whiled away my time making rather bad fairy cakes out of packages. My grandmother Read more »
Rick Stein
Rick Stein talks to Fergus Byrne Rick Stein is horrified when I tell him that, according to the website Wikipedia, he now lives in Australia. “So that’s why people keep coming up to me in Padstow and saying ‘Oh, are Read more »
The Carrot Crunch
Whilst some may battle with a triffid-like harvest of weeds and vegetables, Simon Ford emerges unscathed from his vegetable garden and wonders how the economic downturn is affecting those that pioneered the sale of local veg. Anyone who grows veg Read more »
Good Life Wife
Reader, I’m marrying him. Since moving to Dorset we have home-grown a free range ring-bearer each plus one bridesmaid. In the first year of our thirteen together without a drama, crisis or major distraction, we are sailing away with them, our mums and two old friends to the land where the Bong-tree grows for a wedding-moon.
Fergus Byrne Autumn 11 People & Food
In the hills above Borgo San Lorenzo, in the Mugello area of Tuscany, chef Carlo sharpens the biggest carving knife I have ever seen. He is about to serve the penultimate course of a delicious dinner in his restaurant which Read more »