A West Country food writer embarks on a journey of food and drink discovery around a rural part of West Devon and unearths all manner of delights
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Martin Hesp
Martin Hesp
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A West Country food writer embarks on a journey of food and drink discovery around a rural part of West Devon and unearths all manner of delights
Journalist Martin Hesp looks back at articles he has written about Cornish food producers who have recently featured on Rick Stein’s series about Cornwall - in this piece he travels to Launceston to visit Philip Warren & Son in their ‘shrine of good meat’
We visit the Cornish potato vodka makers - just like Rick Stein does in his latest TV series
In a new series of country notes Martin Hesp recalls a winter visit to Gurnard’s Head in West Cornwall
The G7 Summit is to be held in an obscure corner of Cornwall called Carbis Bay in June - Martin Hesp reflects on the West Country railway journey that will take delegates to this special place
In the third of our Scilly Walks, Martin Hesp explores the uninhabited island of Samson
In the second of our Scilly Walks we go to the north of the archipelago to enjoy a circumnavigation of the isle of St Martin’s
Martin Hesp explores The Garrison on St Marys in the Isles of Scilly one evening in the heart of winter
Martin Hesp considers the region he lives in - the West Country which is so very popular with millions of visitors in normal years - and he mulls over the idea of visiting the big green peninsula which stretches South West of Bristol
At the National Trust’s water-powered flour mill in Dunster they do an excellent job of showing the public how cereal grain is turned into something edible
