It is 6pm, Friday evening. I believe I can hear my desk chair creaking in the style of furniture...
Three siblings bringing a Budapest-style teahouse to Newcastle and twins round the corner running the city’s only independent coffee roastery…...
Sharon McKee recounts the culinary experiences of a trek to Macha Piccu Paddington Bear, marmalade sandwiches, roast guinea pig – that’s what people talk about when you say you’re going to Peru. Add to this the growing realisation that this trip, already a challenging trek up very high mountains, would...
…but there’s still work to do in the garden It’s windy, the forecast says the rain is going to get...
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...
Food blogger Anna Hedworth (aka The Grazer), wraps up warm and settles down to some seriously comforting food It’s that...
Ladies and Gentlemen, appetite brings you Newcastle’s favourite singer, Jason Isaacs, at home, as he cooks up dinner for Rosie...
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...
Presenter of Channel 4’s Lakes on a Plate,Peter Sidwell, who lives down the road in Cumbria, is back in bookshops...
Food blogger Anna Hedworth packs the perfect picnic with punch I love a picnic; actually, any excuse to eat outside,...
I am writing this, dear reader, in the garden, the sun streaming down in an unseasonal mini-heatwave which has had this Girl About Toon hitting the seaside for fish and chips, ice cream and walks on the beach, prioritised in that order. Tynemouth has been heaving and I’ve been a...
