Editor ponders the increasing unwillingness of children to clear their plates, and comes up with an old-fashioned solution When I...
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It’s all go at Vallum Farm and Tea Shop in the Tyne Valley, where there’s a new ice cream flavour and lots of activity on the four-acre veg patch. First to the ice cream, and the 20-plus flavours made from the milk of owners Vicky and Peter Moffitt’s brown Swiss...
Jean-Christophe Novelli was tied to his chair at school, shared a flat with Keith Floyd, kept 25 dogs at one...
Chemist, mixologist and raconteur Noel Jackson puts the good taste back into science, discovers Jane Pikett They say that Noel...
Some things never change, and for that we can be thankful. At the heart of Newcastle city centre, The Grainger Market is only 23 years short of its 200th birthday and the differences between today and opening day in 1835 are probably not that great. It remains the city’s largest...
Summer is here and a weekend in the foodie village of Cartmel is on the cards. Rosie McGlade finds...
The best cook shop for miles around, vintage home wares, ploughman’s lunch and a wander by the river lure Jane...
Presenter of Channel 4’s Lakes on a Plate,Peter Sidwell, who lives down the road in Cumbria, is back in bookshops with Simply Good Pasta; a seasonal selection of light and snappy fresh pasta recipes. We like these… Divided into seasonal sections and based around Peter’s honest and down to earth...
Does Si King ever get sick of food? Don’t be daft… Rosie McGlade is bowled over by the Geordie Hairy...
Keeping chickens in your back garden is seriously back in fashion, as Rosie McGlade discovers As any good cook will tell you, it’s the quality of your ingredients which count, particularly in cake baking and puddings, where eggs really come into their own. But who knew that it’s...
