Martin Hesp explores Japanese food while visiting Hokkaido and Tokyo
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Continuing our series on top West Country chefs we revisit Mitch Tonks, the charming and brilliant chef with an international reputation for his seafood
In the second of our special articles on West Country chefs we meet Ross Sloan who now runs a remarkable ‘shell and fish takeaway’ in Porthleven in Cornwall. At the time of writing the article he was head chef at a rather lovely hotel nearby….
Time to give a shout-out to all those talented chefs out there who aren’t working at present because of the lockdown - here’s an article about the brilliant Greg Milne, head chef at St Michael’s Mount
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
