Jane Pikett eats big at The Staith House, North Shields Years ago, as Nelson Mandela tasted his first days of...
Jane Pikett enjoys the culinary, and horticultural, experience that is Peace & Loaf Time was, the majority of leaves, and certainly flowers,...
Jane Pikett takes a foodie tour of coastal Northumberland As we write, the sun has his hat on and all is right with the world, and what better opportunity for a foodie trip up the Northumberland coast than this? Home to numerous fantastic producers and outlets, this is a foodie...
Bill and Helen Logan launched their tea company less than a year ago – but they have already brewed up...
How refreshing to find a cookbook which stars in both the healthy stakes and the flavour stakes Diana Henry, author of...
Rebecca Archman meets builder-turned award-winning baker Mark Hart Baking and building houses may not strike most of us as the most compatible of trades, but Mark Hart has made a successful switch from one to the other. Within 18 months of setting up the Sweethart café and bakery in Blackhill, Co...
Lintz Hall Farm is the region’s biggest and longest-established egg producer. Jane Hall visits a family-run venture that has really taken wing...
A lifetime in food has taken Manuele Orto from his native rural Sicily to rural Northumberland – and quite a...
People who are exceptionally good at their jobs have a knack of making what they do look easy, as shown by those who “cut” fish on North Shields Fish Quay. I owned a fishmonger’s shop for five years so it’s a job I spent day after day perfecting, but this...
The Grazer, Anna Hedworth, shares her thoughts about some of 2014’s food trends, from the sublime to the ridiculous! Another new...
So how does a vegan fare at a city pub devoted to real ale and a hearty, often meaty, menu?...
It may star the simple sausage, but inventiveness is mixed into every serving at a new restaurant dedicated to it, discovers Alastair Gilmour It was the novelist, playwright and sometime member of parliament AP Herbert who said: “A highbrow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso”....
