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Celebrating Devon’s best: Entries open for the 2026 Food Drink Devon Awards

The countdown has begun as entries officially open for the highly anticipated 2026 Food Drink Devon Awards. Following the resounding success of last year’s event, the awards once again promise to celebrate the very best food and drink Devon has to offer, from artisan producers and innovative brands to much-loved cafés, pubs, restaurants, bars, takeaways and retailers.

Widely recognised as the gold standard for food and drink excellence in the county, the Food Drink Devon Awards shine a spotlight on the talent, passion and creativity that make Devon such a celebrated food and...

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Bridget's Organic Thai Green Vegetable Curry

Always use organic produce for a really healthy meal. Varying the organic vegetables will not stop this dish from tasting amazing, it will be a sizzler!

Lightly fry some leeks, onions and spring onions in a little butter/olive oil, mix in one jar of organic Thai Green curry paste, then place into a slow cooker. Add one tin of coconut milk.

Peel, remove seeds and chop/slice; carrots, parsnip, turnip, swede, spinach, harlequin squash (remove skin), purple sprouting broccoli, one red pepper, spinach and a medium potato.

Cook in the slow cooker until vegetable are to...

A Little Twist on Pink Radish

Slice or spiral organic pink radish, add some white balsamic (or white wine vinegar), olive oil and chopped parsley Keeps crunchy if refrigerated.

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Organic Chicken and Vegetables

Another great meal made with all Shillingford Organics vegetables. Organic chicken breast cooked on a bed of onions in organic butter, boiled potatoes, broad beans, pointed hispi cabbage, topped off with spinach and cauliflower cheese, made with gluten and wheat free flour.

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Bridget's Organic Veggie Supper

Boil some potatoes, whole carrots and towards the end of cooking add the calibrese and broad beans. While this is cooking, melt organic butter and olive oil in a wok, add courgettes, then some onions, followed a few minutes later by roughly chopped black kale and spinach.

Drain the other veg and toss it into the wok to coat it in the buttery oil, season and serve.

Click here to find out more about Shillingford.

Or click here to watch the video 'Food for a sustainable future.

All Vegetables from www.shillingfordorganics.co.uk

Delicious and mouthwatering Afro-Caribbean cuisine in Exeter?

Afriteo Restaurant, a subsidiary of Afriteo Enterprise UK, opened its doors today on Exeter's South Street, spicing up the city's food scene with its authentic Afro-Caribbean and continental cuisine. It is, as far as we are aware, the first and only of its kind in Exeter and possibly even Devon.

Restaurant proprietor Tochukwu E. Onu says: "It is in our belief that everyone who likes trying out food from around the globe will enjoy our delicious and mouth-watering dishes, which have been tailored to suit the taste buds of everyone. With our unique Spice-o-meter...

Put fun with food on the menu this summer holiday

Budding young chefs in Exeter are being given the chance to roll up their sleeves, put on their aprons and show off their culinary skills at Fun Kitchen cookery workshops.

During the summer holidays children aged between eight and fourteen, are being invited to cook up a selection of scrumptious treats and mouth-watering dishes in the Fun Kitchen at St Peter's Church of England School, Exeter.

To fit around parents' busy working lives, children can be can dropped off from 8.30am with an entertaining and fun-filled day of cookery activities going on until 5.30pm.

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Exclusive new restaurant bus service launched in Devon

A bus service with a difference is to be launched in Devon catering for foodies and partygoers looking for a new al fresco eating-out experience.

On The Green bus is a restaurant on wheels with a dining room on the top floor and a first-class catering kitchen and bar below.

The bus is available for private parties or events but will also be taking to the roads of South Devon so diners can eat, drink, and take in some of the jewels of the area.

Customers will be able to mix and match five routes with five menus of locally sourced, top-class food – or create their own...

Pub and restaurant’s idyllic live larder takes local sourcing a step further

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,...

Devon dairy products recalled

People in Exeter are being warned not to consume a particular brand of dairy products.

The recall of dairy products is linked to Dunn’s Dairy, Drewsteignton Devon

Public Health England and West Devon Borough Council are urging consumers in Devon who received milk and cream products from Dunn’s Dairy, Beacon View Farm (Drewsteignton, Devon) to not consume and dispose of them.

The dairy is not to be confused with Dunn’s Dairy of Underdown Farm, Exbourne.

This recommendation comes after a joint Public Health England and West Devon Borough Council investigation...

Neil Parish MP does the ‘Kitchen Check’

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...

Food & Drink

Celebrating Devon’s best: Entries open for the 2026 Food Drink Devon Awards

Bridget's Organic Thai Green Vegetable Curry

A Little Twist on Pink Radish

Organic Chicken and Vegetables

Bridget's Organic Veggie Supper

Delicious and mouthwatering Afro-Caribbean cuisine in Exeter?

Put fun with food on the menu this summer holiday

Exclusive new restaurant bus service launched in Devon

Pub and restaurant’s idyllic live larder takes local sourcing a step further

Devon dairy products recalled

Neil Parish MP does the ‘Kitchen Check’

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