Town Crier with
Justin Tunstall
Retail consultant, shares with us his cheese selling experience
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“We’re a resourceful bunch”
17 May 2019 Town CrierIt’s almost exactly 10 years ago that I sat down to create the first business plan for my cheesemonger. -
“Waxing lyrical”
12 February 2019 Town CrierOn a family holiday to Normandy in 1965, my parents and their adult friends were hugely excited by Livarot and Camembert – seldom seen back home in Hampshire. -
“What a wonderful world”
07 January 2019 Town CrierI was one of 235 judges at mthe recent World Cheese Awards,held in Bergen, Norway -
“In praise of the PDOs – Defra, sort it PDQ!”
08 November 2018 Town CrierWhen I first travelled to the USA in the 1970s, I was amazed to see “Californian Champagne”. -
“Teamlist”
10 October 2018 Town CrierI have an inkling of how Gareth Southgate, or perhaps the England Test selectors, might have felt when a key member of their team pulled a hamstring or twisted an ankle. -
“Seeing stars”
28 August 2018 Town CrierI love food awards. I enjoy helping organise them and judging at them; I spend about 30 days a year on awards-related activity -
“Cold comfort”
17 July 2018 Town CrierDo you have your own fallout shelter? I’ve never worked anywhere that believed me so indispensable to the rebuilding of civilisation that they allocated me a place in a bunker. -
“Homing in on the range”
01 June 2018 Town CrierI spent a happy morning proofreading the entries for this year’s British Cheese awards -
“How to: tell the story”
20 April 2018 Town CrierTry going into the average supermarket and asking about the cheese on offer. After an awkward silence at the outrage of unbidden interaction, the assistant might start to read whatever information is on the packaging -
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
03 November 2017 Town CrierLiterary lovers will know this is the opening lines of The Tale of Two Cities, from that Charles Dickens classic, set in revolutionary times