Category: Dorset Food & Drink

Fat hen, elderflower fritters and the most prized of finds

Why did we stop eating the Fat Hen, wonders expert Carl Mintern, who is celebrating the season for finding the jewel in the mushroom-foraging...

Love Local Trust Local Awards are open now – have you entered?

Love Local, Trust Local Awards founder Barabara Cossins takes us back to the start of her journey, and reminds us all that local producers...

Meet your local: Round Chimneys Farm

This month Rachael Rowe visited the Rich family at their new farm shop and cafe at Round Chimneys, their historic farm at Glanville Wootton “A...

Perfect summer baking – berry and vanilla cake

We are right in the heart of our British summer, with Wimbledon season in full swing, and sparkling wine and strawberries as far as...

The business of grazing tables

Redundancy led to a business launched in a week during the pandemic – and now Sarah McCombe has been featured on TOWIE. Rachael Rowe...

Early rise in the bread shed

It’s a baker’s dozen of working hours for David Mirus, perfecting his sourdough before Wimborne awakes. Tracie Beardsley reports in A Country Living As a...

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