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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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Exeter sweeps up at Devon Life Food & Drink Awards

Devon Life announced the winners of the 2012 Devon Life Food & Drink Awards at a glittering black tie event held at Exeter's Sandy Park last night. The ceremony honours the finest food and drink producers in Devon.

The Exeter Daily would like to congratulate all winners and finalists, but especially Exeter's St Peter's School for winning Best School Food Award, Ben Bulger of the Magdalen Chapter Hotel for winning Best Chef of the Year and The Hunstman Inn at Ide for winning Best Dining Pub of the Year. Special mentions also go to the Rodean Restaurant (Best Restaurant...

Chinese cookery made simple - a book review

Book review: Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese home cooking , Fuchsia Dunlop, Bloomsbury Press, 2012. £25

Fuchsia Dunlop may be known to some of you as the first western woman to train at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine in China, as told in her lovely memoir Shark's fin and Sichuan pepper (Ebury Press, 2008). Her first book Sichuan Cooking (Michael Joseph, 2001) is an insightful guide to the cooking of Sichuan province, known for the spicy nature of its food and perhaps unknown to many Westerners used to Cantonese cooking which tends to dominate Chinese take aways in the UK...

Local vegetable delivery business expands

Penny from Penny's Recipes is expanding her local, organic, vegetable order and delivery business. Penny provides a service for people at workplaces and community centres so they can order local organic vegetables online and have them delivered to their place of work.

The vegetables are grown by Shillingford Organics, which is located just outside Exeter. The scheme is designed to make local produce available to people who struggle to get to the shops or Farmers' Market. Local bread from Emma's bread will soon be available too. The scheme which already delivers to the Hub...

Quickes Traditional Cheeses' cheese-naming competition

Quickes Traditional Cheeses is delighted to announce our #namethatcheese competition. Win a visit to the dairy where you can help us make our award-winning cheese and take home a beautiful hamper of superb Westcountry foods. The Quicke family have been farming at Home Farm, near the village of Newton St Cyres in the South West of England for more than 450 years.

Thirty years ago Sir John Quicke and his wife Prue built the dairy, where Sir John’s daughter Mary continues to produce outstanding award-winning cheese today. All our flavours have our hallmark creamy complex...

Host a Christmas party in a potting shed?

A gardener’s shed is not a usual venue for a Christmas party. However this Christmas many a glass of mulled wine will be enjoyed in The Potting Shed at The Magdalen Chapter in Exeter.

This quirky private dining room is nestled within the grounds of this city centre hotel. Overlooking the manicured kitchen gardens, The Potting Shed is a sophisticated yet homely space that can seat up to 10 diners. Guests will not find a trowel or plant pot in sight. Instead sumptuous furnishings, a private lounge area and state-of-the-art technology awaits them.

The Potting Shed is within...

Tim Harris tempts us with some Apple Day pancakes

In my article about the Apple Day event at Quicke's the other day I mentioned the apple pancakes I made, but of course kept you all in suspense about how to make them. So now here is the recipe.

2 eggs 400 ml milk 250 g plain flour 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, plus more for cooking 2 teaspoons baking powder A pinch of salt 2 tablespoons caster sugar 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon or allspice 3 medium sized cooking apples, peeled, cored and grated Icing sugar, maple syrup, golden syrup or whatever you'd like on your pancakes Mix all the ingredients, except the apples, to a batter the...

Apple Day celebrated in style at Quicke's Cheeses

A celebration of Apple Day at the home of Quicke's Traditional cheese near Crediton was blessed with some sunny Autumnal weather. The sunshine bought out the crowds with visitors from all over Devon and beyond.

Many local food and drink producers were present and offering tastings and sales of some great local produce. Pebblebed Wines from Topsham were offering tastes of their beautiful dry but fruity white and rose wines, and Kennford Farm shop was selling its lovely meat products. Sandford Orchards tempted us with warming mulled cider using Barny Butterfield's secret...

Join in Apple Day fun to keep the autumn blues away

Autumn is all about celebrating the fruits of the harvest before the more severe winter months kick in, but more than that it is an opportunity to get together with friends and family to have fun in the countryside. We have a rich heritage in Devon for combining fun and food and a heartwarming community event. We take a look at just three in the Exeter area well worth a visit.

Quickes Apple Day

Apple Day is an event started in 1990, traditionally in October, by an organisation called Common Ground to be both a celebration and a demonstration of the variety of English apples and...

Devon's 'answer' to feeding ourselves and the world

A Devon Food Conference heard a call today for a move to sustainable agriculture if we are to feed the world over the next decades.

Colin Tudge, world renowned author of 'Feeding the World is Easy' and the mover behind the Campaign for Real Farming ( http://www.campaignforrealfarming.org/ ) was speaking at a meeting organised by the Anglican Diocese of Exeter. He claimed that agriculture was the most important activity people undertake and holds the key to tackling many of our current problems, from obesity to diabetes to famines. Critical to this is for agriculture to be...

Real Food Store enjoys the John Lewis effect

Having enjoyed a mini-boom since the new John Lewis store opened just up the street, the Real Store and Cafe has announced it will be opening for late-night shopping until 8pm every Thursday from 18th October. Pop in early evening to pick up your groceries, or for those wishing to plan ahead, maybe a few Christmas gifts - local chutneys, jams, biscuits, coffees or cider will go down a treat. The fresh produce is looking decidedly autumnal with corn, leeks, bulb onions, shallots, beetroot and scrumptious squash all crying out to be transformed into a culinary feast.

Food & Drink

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

Exeter sweeps up at Devon Life Food & Drink Awards

Chinese cookery made simple - a book review

Local vegetable delivery business expands

Quickes Traditional Cheeses' cheese-naming competition

Host a Christmas party in a potting shed?

Tim Harris tempts us with some Apple Day pancakes

Apple Day celebrated in style at Quicke's Cheeses

Join in Apple Day fun to keep the autumn blues away

Devon's 'answer' to feeding ourselves and the world

Real Food Store enjoys the John Lewis effect

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