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…
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…