Our current project wouldn’t be possible without the kind services and skills of Graham Waddington. Graham has been at the leading edge of British made charcuterie for over 10 years. Graham was one half of the fabulous Trealy Farm, and is now operating a smaller, more development lead operation called Native Breeds. We met Ruth… [Read more…]
Our resident curer, Matt Bedell had a chat with us about the progress of our curing this week.
We are doing it. Finally. And it’s more exciting than I ever thought it would be. Our first animals have been slaughtered and the curing has begun. Having talked about this for so long, that now that we finally are doing it, it feels quite unreal. This process is a research project. We like both farms,… [Read more…]
I find Michelin dining, for the most part, pretty stiff. I always think I am going to like it a lot more than I end up doing, and rarely do I feel as though I got my investment back. But Noma was different, and so is Extebarri, but that is where the comparisons end.
I am a food tourist. It took me a long time to come to terms with this, but now I have life is now easier. Locations of holidays are more easy to pick, satisfaction more guaranteed. Why then, have I not been to San Sebastian before?
The Kings Walk Garden holds a collection of short one day courses over the summer, and I was lucky enough to snag a place in lieu of a friend at the last minute.
This weekend made it my third consecutive weekend in Soho. I would have normally sworn off sharing my weekends with tourists, but there have been too many things to do that it would have been criminal not to.
How fortuitous that the weekend of our Pig Adventure also coincided with Castellano’s All Things Pig Dinner in Bristol. Also very lucky was that our Pig weekend also happened to be in and around the West Country, so an adventure up to Bristol – a very nice detour to make – wasn’t too far a… [Read more…]
Wiltshire has some breathtaking vistas. UK country side is hard to beat in the summer – boringly repeating myself with ‘look, it’s just like velvet!!”
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November 21, 2011
by Eliza
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