The best cook shop for miles around, vintage home wares, ploughman’s lunch and a wander by the river lure Jane...
Keeping chickens in your back garden is seriously back in fashion, as Rosie McGlade discovers As any good...
Does Si King ever get sick of food? Don’t be daft… Rosie McGlade is bowled over by the Geordie Hairy Biker Si King has a refreshingly upbeat view of British food and the way we cook. He considers our traditions proud and our culinary techniques terrific, and he’s not...
It’s summer, and Rosie McGlade goes in search of the perfect strawberry around the region’s pick-your-own farms – scenes of...
For James Burton, food miles are those spent tracking fowl or tracing wild woodland ingredients. Rosie McGlade meets one of...
The Dickson family of the famous North East butchers has at its heart a passion for food, as Jane Pikett discovers. Were Elena Dickson to chronicle her family history, a good place to write it might be the kitchen table, within easy reach of the family recipes which lie at...
It’s all go at Vallum Farm and Tea Shop in the Tyne Valley, where there’s a new ice cream flavour...
Ladies and Gentlemen, appetite brings you Newcastle’s favourite singer, Jason Isaacs, at home, as he cooks up dinner for Rosie...
Rosie McGlade and son Bryn spend one of their best days of the school holidays making bread Dough Works founder and artisan baker Ann Cudworth tells a lovely story about a mother whose relationship with her autistic son was transformed when they learnt to make bread together. “It meant...
Durham city and its county are among the UK’s best. We say, eat, drink and be merry and you may...
Chemist, mixologist and raconteur Noel Jackson puts the good taste back into science, discovers Jane Pikett They say that Noel...
Jane Pikett and son James (just call him the prodigal son…) get a taste for ice cream making There is little so joyous as a towering ice cream cornet topped with a Flake and a generous dollop of red sauce. Or a Knickerbocker glory, loaded with fruit, whipped cream and the...