Rosie McGlade visits the only farm in Co Durham making cheese from its own herd and discovers that just a year into production, everyone’s ‘herd’ of it Carol and Neil Peacock’s dairy cows have a new purpose now their morning milk is siphoned off for hard cheese and their creamy evening milk used for soft [...]

Dan May – rock roadie and musician-turned-photographer-turned-hoticulturalist-turned-cook is author of the hottest cook book of the moment. Jane Pikett talks chilli in chilly Northumberland Exciting news. Chillis make you thin (the heat – the ‘diet-induced thermic effect’ – helps the calories burn; bring it on!). Plus, they are good for warding off vampires, deterring marauding elephants [...]

The talented team at Newcastle’s Centre for Life is about to create one of the most complex and challenging dinners of their culinary life with a version of the last dinner aboard Titanic. Jane Pikett meets head chef and kitchen captain, Colin Bowden Chef (he is never addressed as Colin – never!) is up to [...]

Martin Zuch’s life is like a novel, but his plans to turn an area of Zambia into Africa’s biggest honey farm are real enough. Rosie McGlade meets an extraordinary entrepreneur whose driving force is to give hope to others  Having never farmed in his life, Martin Zuch took the astonishing leap from stock markets and [...]