Food & Drink

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...

Wild Beef, a family-run Chagford farm specialising in naturally reared and nutritionally superior beef, has announced the official launch of the Wild Beef West Country Farm Shop.

The farm shop stocks the finest artisan food and drink from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. The shop’s produce is available at Wild Beef’s market locations at Borough and Broadway, in London, and Wells, in Somerset. The range is also available by mail order.

Supporting boutique farms and suppliers, the shop brings together exceptional produce not easily accessible outside the fertile South West...