Jane Pikett enjoys lunch with Metro Radio breakfast presenter Anna Foster Anna Foster has just dropped her roasted pine nuts...
If you like Jamie Oliver and you crave more confidence in the kitchen, Rosie McGlade has the very thing Byker,...
Visitors to Wallington Food and Craft Festival can take a 250-year culinary step back in time courtesy of the Domestic Goddess of her day, Mary Smith. Jane Hall looks back to a time when women ruled the nation’s great kitchens and Newcastle rivalled London as the food capital of the...
Still following his great great grandfather’s recipe and with his ancestor’s dog taking pride of place on the company logo,...
Jane Pikett and son James (just call him the prodigal son…) get a taste for ice cream making There is little...
Chemist, mixologist and raconteur Noel Jackson puts the good taste back into science, discovers Jane Pikett They say that Noel Jackson possesses more taste buds than the average human. Not only that, but this proliferation of papillae is so finely tuned it can detect a rogue flavour before it enters...
Durham city and its county are among the UK’s best. We say, eat, drink and be merry and you may...
Rosie McGlade and son Bryn spend one of their best days of the school holidays making bread Dough Works...
Ladies and Gentlemen, appetite brings you Newcastle’s favourite singer, Jason Isaacs, at home, as he cooks up dinner for Rosie McGlade. With a little help from his wife. And daughter… When we arrive at Jason Isaacs’ house in Gosforth, Newcastle, the photographer and I, he’s in his underpants, ironing. (Ladies,...
It’s all go at Vallum Farm and Tea Shop in the Tyne Valley, where there’s a new ice cream flavour...
The Dickson family of the famous North East butchers has at its heart a passion for food, as Jane Pikett...
For James Burton, food miles are those spent tracking fowl or tracing wild woodland ingredients. Rosie McGlade meets one of the region’s most fascinating chefs James Burton, action chef, has a £300 camouflage shooting jacket and a garage full to the brim of homemade chutneys, relishes, jellies, cordials, and fruit...













