LESLEY Waters Cookery School has created a selection of delicious recipes using the calorie controlled Fussels’ Cold Pressed Extra Virgin Rapeseed Oil, from sophisticated salmon to roasted salt and pepper pears. Somerset farmer Andy Fussell developed a new bottle for his award-winning golden rapeseed oil with the Lesley Waters Cookery School, with a measured pump…
HISTORY greets you at every turn in York – not just ordinary, common or garden history, but BIG history, tumbling down through the centuries in a cascade of drama with an all-star cast of invaders, monarchs and mayhem. Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans – each ruled York for periods after its foundation by the Romans as…
TAKE two of Dorset’s best-known and most respected food businesses, stir well and freeze – and you have a recipe for successful innovation! At this year’s Casual Dining Show at the Business Design Centre in Islington, Purbeck Ice Cream showcased the delicious, natural ice creams and sorbets made on the farm and scooped the top…
SEE it or live to regret it! So says the poster bearing the now familiar image of a male swan posted on the “What’s On” board outside the Bristol Hippodrome. Although probably not meant to be taken literally, this was still some claim. As it was we need not have worried. From the outset, when…
CANCER is an immensely difficult subject for a play. It is inherently about the things that really matter – life and death – but for many (perhaps most) people, going to the theatre is about entertainment and having a good night out. A play about cancer in which there are only three characters, who speak…
STEPHEN Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods is a big show in every way, taking a sweeping overview of fairy stories, psychology and love. So it’s all the more impressive that the best production I have ever seen should be performed in the intimate setting of Wells Little Theatre. The 20-strong cast plays princes and farm…
MARK Hartstone, chef proprietor of La Fosse restaurant with rooms at Cranborne, is famous in the region for his cheeseboard, sharing with his customers his passion for and knowledge of local cheeses. So it was a natural progression for him to devise a tasting menu, so that diners could not only sample small quantities of…
COLIN Hayman’s innovative production of the 1950s classic The Titfield Thunderbolt is taking over the Studio Theatre in Ashley Road, Salisbury until 17th May. Not only has Colin designed a set that takes in a station, a bar and a vicarage, but even the illustrious steam train makes an appearance, just on time! Philip Goulding, brother…
JUKE box musicals, featuring the hits of a single artist or band, can either be loosely biographical, as with Jersey Boys, or completely fictitious, with the songs interwoven into the narrative, as with Mamma Mia or We Will Rock You. 20th Century Boy is one of the former, using a mildly contrived plot where Rolan…
IT seems incredible that it’s almost 80 years ago since Noel Coward’s plays Tonight at 8:30 were last performed together – when The Master and Gertrude Lawrence starred in the 1936 London production. Fortunately, that omission has been corrected by Blanche McIntyre with the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton and English Touring Theatre, and the series…