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…
ALTHOUGH Tunworth looks just like a Camembert, it’s so much more. This bloomy white rinded cheese has earned the ultimate accolade of Supreme Champion at the British Cheese Awards on two occasions, in 2006 and again last year, 2013. Made by Stacey Hedges and Julie Cheyney at the family farm in Herriard, Hampshire, this artisan…
A WILD mushroom pie has taken a Bournemouth man into the finals of the Badger Ales national pie competition, which will be judged at the Hall & Woodhouse pub-restaurant in Bath on Thursday 6th March. Russell Clarke beat nearly 700 entries to reach the finals. He won the first round of the vegetarian category, impressing…
WHEN customers ask for this cheese, they pronounce it one of two ways: “Oh-gleshield” or “Ogg-leshield”. I spoke with Jamie Montgomery, who makes this fine cheese in North Cadbury, Somerset and he says it’s Oh-gleshield. That’s settled, then. Jamie’s celebrated unpasteurised cheddar, Montgomery, uses milk from his Friesian herds, while Ogleshield is made from the…
BADGER Ales, produced by family firm Hall & Woodhouse at the Blandford St Mary brewery, has won a Silver Award in the 2014 Design Effectiveness Awards for its new brand identity created by BrandOpus. The award acknowledges the success of Badger’s rebranding across the nine-bottle range. This new identity has created a strong on-shelf presence,…
TOWN Mill Cheesemonger, Justin Tunstall’s tiny specialist cheese shop at Lyme Regis, has beaten nearly 300 entries nationwide to win the Cheesemonger Of The Year award in the annual Farm Shop & Deli Awards. Justin, who writes The Cheeseboard monthly article for the Fine Times Recorder, was understandably thrilled at the success. He said: “Wow!…
AS you may have heard, Denhay have ceased production of their illustrious cheddar, following in the footsteps of Cranborne Chase and Windswept Cow, fellow Dorset cheese-makers who pulled the plug on their cheese activity in recent years. George and Amanda Streatfeild made the decision with a heavy heart, but thankfully the other wing of their business, Bacon, will continue from strength…
TRAVELLING chef Philippa Davis from Shaftesbury has been working in Israel and her latest postcard recipes reflect the delicious cuisine of this ancient land where so many culinary and religious traditions meet … My first adventure out was a food tour of Jerusalem. Taking the road from Tel Aviv we travelled down the same paths…
FOOD awards proliferate, from broadcast media to local newspapers, but there are a handful that represent the zenith for food businesses, food and drink producers, restaurants, pubs, growers and retailers. They include the BBC Radio 4 Food Programme awards, the Guild of Fine Food’s Great Taste Awards, run from the Guild’s HQ in Gillingham, and…
FORAGING is the fashionable word in food circles, but in fact country people have been doing this for centuries (for ever!) and the first, and still the finest, guide to foraging for wild food is Food For Free, by this country’s greatest natural history writer, Richard Mabey. But a new book from two women who…