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  • Time for a Break?

    11 August 2016 Speciality Bites
    The chances are that you are reading this before you go on holiday or after you come back, and hopefully not whilst you are away! I had to chuckle to myself when listening to the headline news on the radio yesterday in the car. 7 days…

  • Try Something Different

    01 August 2016 Speciality Bites
    After a very busy summer so far, finally I have had the opportunity over the last couple of weeks to call into a few speciality food retailers

  • Moving On!

    20 July 2016 Speciality Bites
    Sorry it’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog, but this has been at the end of an extremely busy two months and I am glad to start this week as a “normal week” for the first time for a while. Trips to…

  • “MasterRind”

    12 July 2016 Town Crier
    What qualities make a good cheesemonger? That’s a question we were looking to answer recently at the British Cheese Awards, where a competition was run to identify Britain’s Best Young Cheesemonger, sponsored by Anthony Rowcliffe & Son, now in their third generation of cheese specialist

  • “Picnic perfection”

    12 July 2016 Fine Food
    It’s no surprise that one of my favourite passages in the Wind in the Willows is the one where Ratty checks out the picnic that he has put together for himself and the Mole. The enticing list of goodies seems endless: “coldchickencoldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkinssaladfrenchrollscresssandwichespotted meatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater”

  • “Brexit or Breginning?”

    12 July 2016 Expert Eye
    To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable. So runs half a Chinese proverb. As a retailer I can readily agree with that

  • “Making a spectacle of yourself”

    12 July 2016 Cheese Talk
    Until a few weeks ago I was feeling rather smug about my moved to New Zealand, basking in a four month-long near-drought with autumn temperatures rarely falling below 20ºC

  • “Blues brothers”

    12 July 2016 Opinion
    When privileged to meet and listen to the cheesemaking fraternity of the UK, I am frequently surprised by the almost consistent desire by so many to make a blue cheese type, whether as a new line or an extension of their brand

  • The Interview: Catherine Mead

    30 June 2016 News
    Catherine Mead of Lynher Dairies talks inspiration, simplicity and risk

  • What does Brexit mean for the food industry?

    29 June 2016 Speciality Bites
    Ok, so there is no doubt what was front of mind for New Yorkers over the past few days whilst I was at the Fancy Food Show. Brexit! Hotel receptionists, porters, potential suppliers, waiters were all asking what was happening in the UK

  • EU Referendum

    20 June 2016 Speciality Bites
    No doubt what the big event is this week. England and Wales’ matches this week at the Euros, whilst important to some, aren’t quite going to affect our futures as much as the vote on Thursday

  • The Euros

    13 June 2016 Speciality Bites
    Matters European are everyone’s focus for the next two weeks, by which time we may be out of Europe both politically and in the football. We’ll leave aside the football this week after Saturday’s results, and concentrate on 23rd June
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