Martin Hesp
You can buy some very, very good butter from the supermarket - Trewithen Dairy’s being among the best - but every once in a while if you’ve time, why not have a go at making a pat of butter?
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
Bob Bell continues his remarkable reflections of the Roomful of Blues Hot Little Mama Tour of 1981 when the band travelled the length and breadth of North America playing gigs at towns and cities large and small. In this episode Bob remembers characters such as Freddie Cisneros and long nights down by the bayou
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
There are an awful lot of new names for the months of the year - like Veganuary or Flexibuary - but do they add up to more than a hill of beans?
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
Golden Cap is the highest point along the whole of England’s South Coast - and the walk from there to West Bay is one of the most glorious you’ll find from Dover to Land’s End
