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…
SICILY, eh? One minute it can make you smile, the next it makes you want to weep. It all depends on which of Sicily’s faces you’re seeing. Five minutes spent in its crazy capital Palermo and you’re mourning the neglect of its glorious palazzi and the poverty that confronts you on all sides. Escape the…
TRAVELLING chef Philippa Davis from Shaftesbury has had a busy winter and early spring with visits to the Caribbean, Scotland and Switzerland where she was catering in a chalet at Verbier … Never having been a seasonaire (usually someone in their early 20s who spends their winter working in a chalet and off on…
In Dublin’s fair city, there is something delicious for breakfast…. OUR favourite travelling chef, Philippa Davis from Shaftesbury, has been busy these past few weeks, including a short stay in Dublin where her healthy breakfast choices were a bit of a shock for her clients … So the conversation went a little like…
Last year, Janet Wood from Mere, joined explorer Col John Blashford-Snell and members of the Scientific Exploration Society, based at Motcombe, on an expedition to Mongolia. In her latest article, Janet describes a visit to a Buddhist monastery and temples in the capital city Ulan Bator. CYNTHIA, my room mate, woke me up at 9am…
WHAT do we need? Sunshine! When do we need it? Now! Most of us would give our eye-teeth for a few weeks of sunshine – frosty would be fine! So who can blame travelling chef Philippa Davis from Shaftesbury if she grabbed with both hands and the first available plane an invitation to go and…
WHEN you look for a skiing holiday, the first places you think of are likely to be the French Alps, the Tyrol, the Dolomites, Whistler in Canada or one of the spectacular Rocky Mountain resorts like Jackson Hole or Aspen. For the non-skiers there are other choices, and for those who want to combine a…
TRAVELLING chef Philippa Davis from Shaftesbury is back in Scotland, cooking for a shooting party on the Cawdor Estate near Inverness, home to many game birds and beasts, wild salmon, and Shakespeare’s Macbeth (which inspired her to flights of verse and fancy but probably didn’t harm the food!) … The train journey up from…