APPLE Day this year falls on Wednesday 21st October, but there will inevitably be very few events or celebrations – although it looks like a great year for the apple harvest. This year should have been a special celebration because it marks the 30th anniversary of the event which began as part of a campaign…
TEN years of planning and maturing in the barrels have come to fruition with the release of Dartmoor Whisky, the ideal Christmas gift for any fan of single malt. Distilled and aged in the West Country’s first whisky distillery, at the gateway to Dartmoor the former in Bovey Tracey Town Hall, this whisky is firmly…
DEVON-based farmhouse cheesemaker Quicke’s has unveiled the line-up for its first ever British Farmstead Cheese Board, hand-picked to be at their best during the Christmas festivities. Partnering with other artisan cheesemakers across the region, who craft their cheeses from milk produced within metres of the dairy, Mary Quicke has curated a winter cheese selection that…
THE World Cheese Awards, run by the Guild of Fine Food based at Gillingham, will not be taking place this year at Ovideo in the Spanish province of Asturias. The competition has been postponed to 2021, because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Guild has decided to extend Oviedo’s tenure as host city into 2021, and…
THE West Country’s dairy heritage was to the fore in the list of three star winners in the 2020 Great Taste Awards, run by the Guild of Fine Food, based in Gillingham, north Dorset. The top products in the world’s most trusted food and drink awards included cheese, yogurt, cream and curd. Single stars were…
A GROUP of young Dorset craft cider makers gathered, socially distanced of course, for a unique cider tasting in the new Hinknowle Barn venue at Rupert Best’s estate at Melplash. The Dorset Cider Apple event was a chance to taste and judge a set of single variety ciders, the culmination of a fascinating project led by…
THE French used to refer to the English as “les rosbif” – a reference to our national predilection for roast beef. It remains true that Britain – including Scotland and Northern Ireland – produces some of the world’s finest beef. But the French have some excellent beef cattle, and one of the finest breeds is…
THERE will be a pop-up food and drink market in Sturminster Newton on Saturday 12th September, making up a little for the disappointment felt by the hundreds of people who will be missing one of the best food events of the year, Sturminster Cheese Festival. The cheese festival, which includes cookery demonstrations, cheesemakers from all…
THIS is Afternoon Tea Week – a chance to celebrate a great British institution. Other nations have coffee culture or tea ceremonies, but we have a unique cultural culinary tradition of tea and cake, so between now and 16th August you should make the most of it! If you are lucky enough to live near…
BEER drinkers in Bristol will raise a glass – and a cheer – at the news that the Bristol Craft Beer Festival 2020 edition will take place at the Harbourside – the first such event for the city, and possibly the entire UK, after lock-down. The festival will take place on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th…