Food & Drink

A Great British favourite and a flavour reminiscent of childhood memories on sunny summer holidays at the seaside, Salcombe Dairy has just launched a new retro Raspberry Ripple flavour to their range for 2016. Just launched, Salcombe Dairy’s Raspberry Ripple is made using fresh milk, which arrives to the Salcombe Dairy parlour daily from a local farm and double cream from the creamery. Salcombe Dairy delicately combines juicy raspberry puree with Devonshire Cream ice cream to create the luxuriously creamy yet tangy Raspberry Ripple. Both gluten and egg free, this mouth-wateringly good...

Pret A Manger’s first campus shop was officially opened this week by the company’s Chief Executive, Clive Schlee, and University of Exeter’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Steve Smith. The shop, located in The Forum, opened to customers on Friday 22nd April but held an official ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday. Guests enjoyed glasses of Champagne and Pret’s signature Green Goodness juices, as well as introductions to the shop’s team members (seven of whom are University of Exeter students). Alicja Hendzel, Manager of the new Pret, said, “Our first two weeks on campus have been phenomenal...

Experts from the University of Exeter and the Met Office will bring their research out of the laboratory and into city watering holes, as the world's largest festival of public science talks arrives in Exeter.

Pub goers will hear talks on everything from exposing the myths about obesity to hunting for hidden galaxies when 19 local researchers take to the stage as Exeter joins more than 100 cities around the world who will be taking part in a global festival from the 23rd – 25th May.

Tickets are now on sale at www.pintofscience.co.uk/events/exeter .

The international...

Members from Ladies in Beef and the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution were giving away British tender-top steak butties to passers-by in Princesshay, Exeter as part of the Great British Beef Week celebrations of Red Tractor Assured British Beef.

The humble sandwich is still the staple of Britain’s mealtimes - breakfast, lunch and dinner, as an easy to make nutritious food. With over 5.6 billion sandwiches eaten in the last year alone, the British sandwich has no competition with its closest rival being Italian meals at 1.9 billion.

New research into understanding...