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…
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…
HISTORY greets you at every turn in York – not just ordinary, common or garden history, but BIG history, tumbling down through the centuries in a cascade of drama with an all-star cast of invaders, monarchs and mayhem. Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans – each ruled York for periods after its foundation by the Romans as…
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…