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…
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…
TRAVELLING chef Philippa Davis from Shaftesbury has been back to France again (we can’t tell you how much we envy her, but then we don’t cook as well as she does!) and this week’s postcard from Philippa was full of the delights of visiting a lovely family who live in the Midi-Pyrenees, west of Toulouse…
HOME in the West Country, from her busy life as a travelling chef, Shaftesbury-born Philippa Davis is enjoying the explosion of blossoms and green life around her in Wiltshire … Happy as a pig in a bun…. BLOSSOM is exploding all over Wiltshire at the moment with magnolia flowers and cherry blossoms bursting out…
IF you really can’t stomach even the thought of goat’s cheeses, then please look away now. If you are tentative or just curious about them, then this Dorset made goat’s cheese, Nanette, is more than worthy of your consideration. If you actively like them, then this is a must for you to sample, as it…
TASTE of the West judges who visited the Riverside Restaurant at West Bay sent a rave review, awarded the restaurant a gold star and concluded “this place should have a Michelin star.” Arthur Watson, who this year celebrates 50 years of running the Riverside with his wife Jan, was understandably thrilled: “It is a wonderful…
A SHAFTESBURY couple have launched a new range of healthy teas, inspired by their travels in South America. Teatonics has been founded by Charles Grummitt and Rosie Marteau with the aim of creating new, healthy and exciting blends discovered in these lesser known tea drinking cultures. After quitting their city jobs to travel around Paraguay,…
CHARCUTERIE is an ancient craft originally intended as a way to preserve meat (usually pork) before the advent of refrigeration. It is carried on today for the unique flavours derived from the preservation process and is an integral part of modern cuisine. In medieval times local guilds were developed to regulate the food production industry…
IF you have a sweet tooth and an eye for pretty things, there is a must-see new shop opening in Wincanton High Street over the Easter weekend. Cake maker and creative cake decorator Vicky Riddick is opening The Small Cake Shop, at the entrance to Carrington Way, on Saturday 19th April, in time to enjoy…
WHEN New Zealand dairy farmer Louise Talbot moved to Dorset with her family she was surprised to discover that almost nobody made their own cheese – quite the opposite of what she was used to. Louise decided to share her expertise by setting up a cookery school with a difference – Louise brings her Cutting…