Food & Drink

How meat is raised matters so much to Ian Dent and Diana Hunt that they have recently co-opted a farm between their two establishments, The Millbrook Inn at South Pool and Gara Rock at East Portlemouth where they are rearing pigs, lamb, ducks and hens.

And as the farm becomes established soon their menus will not only specify the exact field in which the meat was raised, but focus on what is available at the farm at the time.

Ian Dent and Diana Hunt, who purchased the pub this year from the South Pool community and also took over the nearby Gara Rock restaurant in March,...

Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, attended a recent Food Standards Agency reception and is pictured here getting to grips with the Agency’s Food Safety Week ‘Kitchen Check’ A recent survey1 by the FSA showed that more than 80% of the UK public admitted to one or more habits that put them at risk of food poisoning, including 1 in 3 people not checking ‘use-by’ dates, with 85% of them instead wrongly using the ‘sniff test’ and 68% just checking the colour – even though this will not always reveal whether food is safe to eat. Also 1 in 3 people admit they would eat food that has been...

Students and staff at Tiverton High School are attempting to beat the world record for the biggest ever cream tea.

They’re planning on hosting 500 guests to a proper cream tea on Wednesday and they’ll be making sure that the scones are served Devon-style with the cream going on first.

The school needs to feed more than 430 people to break the current world record for the biggest cream tea. They are inviting pupils from local primary schools, their own students and staff and special guests from the community.

It’s the brainchild of staff members Kirsty Pritchard and...

Michael Pollan is an American food writer best known as a critic of the industrial scale of food production, reflected in his books such as The Omnivores Dilemma , In Defence of Food and Food Rules . His approach can be summed up by his 'rule' - Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants . This challenge to a seeming over-reliance on nutritionists and others can help us decide what we should eat. He has always advocated individuals and families taking more control over their food. I chatted to him about the book whilst Pollan was over here for its launch. So this is not a cookery book, it is...