Dorset Seafood Festival
Basking in blue skies and sunshine, Weymouth had a particularly fishy feel to it at the weekend during the Dorset Seafood Festival.
The two-day event...
People in Food – Jonathan Hoskyns
From the end of June to the middle of November if you need to find Jonathan Hoskyns he will most likely be out in...
People in Food – Jolly Carter
Being creative is at the essence of Jolly Carter’s core. It has taken him to Chelsea School of Art in New York and back...
Can Dorset become Britain’s first Sustainable Palm Oil county
An initiative to convince Dorset organisations to support the use of sustainable palm oil is gaining traction. Fergus Byrne has been talking to members...
Tropical Dorset
Viewed from the front, the terraced house of Goyas and Safna Miah in Dorchester looks ordinary enough: car in the drive, neatly-trimmed grass and...
Like a duck to water
Chinese Crispy Duck has been voted Britain’s third favourite food, pipping Chicken Tikka. Ducks, once a peasant winter staple, are now bred on a...
Good Life Wife
Some town mice come with us in the packing boxes when we move to the South West. Literary types, they stow away in the crates of books where they make finely-nibbled nests out of a couple of novels. And after a good nap they set about systematically breaking into all the dry goods. Thin, grey and organised they seem quite a different species from the rounder, browner country cousins who restrict their store room damage to delicately whittling walnuts. Not taking out Foodie’s finest risotto rice collection.
People in Food – Marie Childs
Fancy a pint by a tuneful stream on a stretch of grass opposite a thatched pub, oozing rural charm? This might be just the...
People in Food – Mark Evans
There is a buzz of activity in the kitchen at Tierra restaurant in Lyme Regis. It is the morning of a new seasonal menu...
Pig Snout and Slack-ma-Girdle
Over the last hundred or so years Dorset has not been considered one of the cider counties like Devon, Somerset and Hereford, but there...
Bitter and Sweet
Who would have guessed it – a Portuguese café and food shop in Chard? But then again, who would have guessed that there was...
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...
