<p class="">Now is the season of fruitfulness in the English West Country - this article celebrates the sort of ingredients and dishes you can enjoy in September</p>

<p class="">Martin Hesp celebrates the new Taste East Devon Festival with lunch at a very special country hotel - The PIG at Combe serves a 25-mile-menu which more or less sums up all that is good about eating and drinking in the East Devon area</p>

<p class="">Martin Hesp pays tribute to the llfe of his old friend Brendan Sellick - sometimes billed in the media as “The World’s Lat Mud-Horse Fisherman”</p>

<p class="">Martin Hesp reviews a very useful cookbook indeed, one which focuses on catering for two - which is actually the number of people most likely to sit down for lunch or dinner. Two’s Company is by Exeter-based food writer and chef Orlando Murrin</p>

<p class="">Reporting an a seminal event which might well help to change the artisan bread-making scene in Britain</p>

<p class="">Food writer Martin Hesp learns about a whole new way to barbecue - something which you can literally do at the press of a button </p>

<p class="">Room with a view - or rather, dining room with a view… We’re looking for suggestions - the best cafes, pubs or restaurants with sea-views… In Devon, Dorset, Somerset or Cornwall in this particular case…</p>

<p class="">We go back to the beach with Dan the Fishman for the first seafood picnic in 18 months - good to be back having an adventure after 18 months in pandemic lockdown </p>

<p class="">Went to a barbecue this week - and for once it was actually a work meeting - but why not mix business with pleasure? At this event we were talking about an amazing new kind of barbecue called the Masterbuilt Gravity Series</p>

<p class="">All about the sunshine food of the Canaries - mojo sauces etc</p>

<p class="">Martin Hesp recalls the tie he joined a group of Dartmoor farmers on a trip to the Simmental in Switzerland</p>

<p class="">Continuing our series about great West Country chefs Martin Hesp writes about his old pal Matt Mason and recalls the day he learned to cook in Matt’s old kitchen at the Jack in the Green alongside half a dozen rugby players from the Exeter Chiefs</p>

<p class="">In our series on great West Country chefs, Martin Hesp talks to Nathan Outlaw on the very day he was told that his Port Isaac had been officially named "best place to eat in the whole of Britain…</p>

<p class="">In our series about the talented chefs of the West Country we visit Falmouth where South African Hylton Espey ahas been cooking up a very natural and delicious storm for the past five years at the Merchant’s Manor Hotel</p>

<p class="">Experimenting with recipes and food during a pandemic lockdown… Why not? You havn’t much choice if you’re only shopping for essentials once every two weeks</p>

<p class="">Continuing our series on top West Country chefs we revisit Mitch Tonks, the charming and brilliant chef with an international reputation for his seafood </p>

<p class="">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….</p>

<p class="">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</p>

<p class="">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? </p>

<p class="">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</p>