Category: Dorset Food & Drink

7 Things You Can Get From a Local Butcher that You Can’t Get in a Supermarket

We all appreciate our local independent shops - but are we using them properly? Rachael Rowe asks just what your local butcher can do...

How to use your wine merchant!

The most common mistake with quality wine is to leave it too long before uncorking. Your wine merchant is always delighted to advise, says...

Simple and delicious – Breakfast Pasties (and they’re easy!)

Ingredients (makes six large pasties) For the pastry: • 125g butter (room temperature) • 125g lard (room temperature)• 500g plain flour For the filling: • 8 sausages• 1...

The Dorset food & drink stories behind the ‘Love Local Trust Local’ Awards

Barbara Cossins, founder of Dorset’s Love Local Trust Local label and annual food producer awards, shares some of the most moving stories behind this...

Meet your local: ‘Ye Olde Two Brewers Inn’, Shaftesbury

This month we’ve been chatting to Chris and John Henson-Ball, the new landlords of the Ye Olde Two Brewers almost at the bottom of...

The farm where cows milk themselves!

The trend for sourcing food locally has benefited some farmers. Rachael Rowe talks to Rachael Perrett, owner of Meggy Moo’s at Park Farm in...

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Shooting from the saddle

As winter drags on, mud and headtorches give way to arrows and adrenaline as Tamsin Doar discovers the addictive pull of horseback archery Although spring...

Planning Your Trip to the Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show: Where to Stay and What to See

There is something uniquely British about voluntarily spending a significant portion of your August weekend standing in a field in Motcombe, surrounded by pristine...