Locality Archives

Autumn is Coming… And So Are My Bread Courses!

Discover all the new breadmaking courses from autumn 2024 to Christmas

The Annual Real Bread Week

Real Bread week – a celebration of good bread

Oldbury Tarts

A traditional Gloucestershire Recipe Do you make a traditional recipe from your locality? As a newcomer to Gloucestershire I really wasn’t aware of a particular recipe to make. There seemed …

Buying fish online helps our fishing industry

If you watched Cornwall: This Fishing life BBC series, you’ll have seen just how challenging fishing for a living can be. With our local fishmongers closed – they were already …

How do you take your milk? In bottles or plastic cartons?

The milk vending machine in Ljubljana's market square

Plastic or Glass Bottles, or milk by vending machine? Reducing the amount of plastic I use is on my mind these days. Should I switch to milk in glass bottles? …

British Hops Herefordshire Grown

British hops are sought by brewers all over the globe. One hop farm, Stocks Farm located on the Worcestershire/Herefordshire border grows enough hops to create 48 million pints of beer each …

An amazing orange cake by Emily Scott

I’d suggest that after chocolate, citrus is everyone’s favourite flavour. Flavours that excite the palate and add a refreshing touch. With that in mind, I am pleased to share simply …

Discover Gloucestershire Heritage Apples

How many apple varieties would you guess there are in Gloucestershire? Ten, twenty, 50? More than 100 apple varieties native to Gloucestershire have been documented: Eating apples, cooking apples and …

Make the most of asparagus

What does it take to create great asparagus? I visit the Vale of Evesham which has PGI status to find out.

Discovering Cotswolds food and drink

If you visit a new area, where do you choose to eat and drink? Of course you ask people you meet, but with an area as large as the Cotswolds, you’ll inevitably not find all the gems.

The Cotswold Cook Book will help. It celebrates the amazing food and drink in the Cotswold and includes more than 40 recipes. I’ve been reading through and getting very hungry. I’ve also started to plan visits to many of the places mentioned. What better way than to read a recipe and think, “I’d like to visit and try more”.