Food and Drink

Celebrate your Somerset food heroes

Friday, March 05, 2010

BLACKMORE Vale Media launched the second annual Taste of Somerset Food and Drink Awards last Thursday in the elegant setting of Jardines, the garden room restaurant at Roger and Monty Saul's Kilver Court farm shop and garden, Shepton Mallet.

Guests at the launch...

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Taste of Somerset Awards 2010 Making it possible ...

Roger Saul and Leona McDonald of Sharpham Park and Kilver Court with the hamper that was won by Ruth Kimber of Wincanton's Kimber's Farm Shop. Picture by Ian Sumner

Friday, March 05, 2010

THE Taste of Somerset Awards are made possible by the generosity and support of local businesses - many of them food and drink producers themselves -...

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Bee Shack comes out of hibernation!

Friday, March 05, 2010

HONEYBUNS Bee shack Café comes out of hibernation this Saturday 6th March. The cafe at Naish Farm, Holwell, is open from 11am – 4pm serving...

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Fine wines from Hampshire

Friday, March 05, 2010

WIMBORNE Wine Society welcomed two employees from Wickham Wine Vineyard based at Shedfield, Hants, and the manager from the former Wimborne Winerack...

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Confessions of a foodie

Friday, March 05, 2010

Scampi fries, spam fritters, bloater paste or Beluga caviar ... Simone Sekers laps it all up I was in a bit of a rush as I grabbed a jar of marmalade...

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Confessions of a foodie

Friday, March 05, 2010

Scampi fries, spam fritters, bloater paste or Beluga caviar ... Simone Sekers laps it all up I was in a bit of a rush as I grabbed a jar of marmalade...

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Cooking with Mrs Simkins

A traditional taste of Ireland for St Patrick's Day

Friday, March 05, 2010

Soda Bread IT's St Patrick's Day on 17th March, so be prepared in good time with this distinctly Irish flavoured recipe. Soda bread is quick and easy...

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Robin retires after half a century in the Chalke valley watercress beds

With the watercress harvester in the background, Robin Hitchings is shown with boxes of newly harvested cress.

Friday, March 05, 2010

FOR 50 years Robin Hutchings has worked with one of nature's most nutritious crops. "And I still enjoy eating it," he says. When he helped out his...

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Taste of Dorset award -winner on national television

Friday, February 26, 2010

VIEWERS of Country Tracks on television on Sunday morning will have seen an interesting series of features about Dorset, including restoration of the...

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Taste of Dorset award-winner on national television

Friday, February 26, 2010

VIEWERS of Country Tracks on television on Sunday morning will have seen an interesting series of features about Dorset, including restoration of the...

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