IN Deadwood, where almost every shop offers gambling and Wild Bill Hickock is shot five times a day on Main Street, Mary Tautkus started her Chubby Chipmunk Chocolate shop ten years ago. She trained with the best in Belgium, and now makes truffles and various caramel delights, often with a gold flavour to match the…
MANY towns no longer have an independent green-grocer (Shaftesbury, Bridport, Wimborne and Glastonbury are among the lucky ones) but if you have a Somerset or Dorset farmers market locally you will be able to get some of the freshest, most delicious and locally grown vegetables around. A couple of years ago Somerset Farmers Market organisers…
TRAVELLING chef Philippa Davis from Shaftesbury visits some of the most beautiful places in the world, cooking for clients in locations from the south of France to the north of Scotland. She was back in Scotland again in May, cooking for a dinner party for 18 people outside Edinburgh. After several trips to Scotland’s capital,…
FOOD writer Christine McFadden, who runs classes at her home in the beautiful village of Little Bredy, visited Morocco in January, particularly to learn more about the country’s food and its unique and magical argan oil. She shares some of her experiences and discoveries at her Spicy Journeys class, Taste of Morocco, on Friday 13th…
PURBECK Ice Cream has scooped not one, but two more awards winning the most innovative watercress product as well as overall winner of the Watercress Food Awards 2014 at this year’s Watercress Festival! The annual festival at Alresford is attended by people who are looking for quality and innovation in food – and in particular,…
LEARN, Cook, Eat, Stay – that is the invitation from Dorset chef Lisa Osman as she embarks on a new adventure, All Hallows School for Cooks and Makers at Wimborne St Giles. Lisa is an accomplished chef, caterer, teacher, trainer and food judge, well-known and respected in Dorset for her dedication to local food and…
TUESDAY Night is Pie Night. Music to the ears of the many fans of Terri Porter’s pie-making skills. Terri, who has taken over the village pub at Thornford, used to run the farm shop in nearby Yetminster, where she sold home-produced meat, vegetables and her own pies, cakes, sausage rolls and more. She was a…
ALL our lives we have tried to combine our love of old buildings with our love of good food. It’s not always easy, but there have been gastro-pubs in listed buildings, fine picnics in picturesque ruins, even a good tea in a defunct railway station. So when we gave Orkney a thought as a holiday…
THERE’s something afoot in the world of cheddar. Not the discovery that the Witch of Wookey Hole is real; but something with far greater implications. This year sees the British Cheese Awards taking place within the Bath and West show. Both events have been behemoths of the British Cheese scene – Bath and West specialising…
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…