Food & Drink

Devon County Council is running a series of free six-week cookery courses to teach residents to cook a range of basic meals while covering the top tips that help reduce food waste at home.

Eight ‘DIY Dinner’ courses will take place in towns across the county during January and February in another example of the council’s commitment to help communities reduce food waste and carbon emissions in support of the Devon Climate Declaration.

Each course will be led by an experienced community food worker and will include recipes from Recycle Devon’s newly launched cook book ‘Have...

Let’s get a couple of minor niggles out of the way first.

Niggle number one: Our starters were delivered to the wrong table, where a pair of casually-dressed young chaps gleefully accepted them, despite the fact the food wasn’t what they ordered.

You’d be right to expect that annoyed me no end but I, in fact, forgave the minor misdemeanour, because one of the recipients was my old mate, Radio Exe DJ Ashley Jeary, who looks like he could do with a good meal, or two, or maybe three.

Niggle number two: After waiting 20 minutes for our starter, the wrong soup was served...

Great Taste Award winning drinks producer Gusto Organic will be showcasing its range of adult focused premium soft drinks at The Source Trade Show on 5thFebruary 2020, the South West’s biggest trade show for the food & drink sector.

Founded by Craig Sams, (the entrepreneur behind Green & Blacks) and Will Fugard, CEO and alchemist in chief, Gusto Organic has harnessed both European and global markets with their organic, Fairtrade and refined sugar free soft drinks. Not only possessing a raft of Great Taste Awards, the Real Cola has been voted the No.1 Ethical Cola in the UK...

They’re often typecast as the villain of the piece, the most hated vegetable in the land and the only morsel left on the plate at the end of the annual Christmas feast.

But, surprisingly, 74% of people in Devon admitted that they do in fact harbour a love for SPROUTS during a poll run by the Home of the Roast, Toby Carvery.

The poll interrogated some of the most polarising aspects of Christmas, with the controversial cabbages just missing out in a list of Devon’s top three loves with Christmas films (89%), Christmas songs (84%) and present buying (76%) proving most popular...