Food & Drink

#1 – Black Tea

It’s high caffeine content and strong flavor makes black tea a popular drink among coffee drinkers. Known as red tea in China, this variety retains its flavors for many years. The tea is blended with various other ingredients to make flavored teas such as chai and the Irish breakfast. The tea can easily be brewed with your favorite herbs and spices such as cinnamon, ginger, black pepper to get the flavor of your choice. Black tea can be brewed from four to fifteen minutes depending on the flavor and the ingredients being added to it. While black tea can give you that...

The recently revamped, seriously stylish Deer Park Country House Hotel just outside Honiton in Devon has called on wood fired oven cooking expert, David Jones of Manna from Devon Cooking School, to add another exciting dimension to their utterly fabulous courses. A series of new, outdoor wood fired oven courses will start in April and run through until the end of September 2014.

During the varied range of exciting new courses, which will take place during the week, David will share his infectious passion and enthusiasm for cooking with The Bushman wood fired oven which has recently...

Celebrating their passion for using the best, locally sourced ingredients, the award-winning The Venus Company is delighted to have joined forces with chef and TV presenter James Strawbridge to create two truly scrumptious new gourmet pasties. These utterly delicious Venus Strawbridge gourmet pasties will feature on The Venus Company’s new summer menu, which will be available in their popular cafés and takeaways in Devon and Cornwall from April.

These mouth-watering, handmade additions to Venus’ menu will be available in two sublime varieties - ‘Triple Cheese and Onion’ and ‘Minted...

The sun was shining and a brilliant day was had by all at the opening of the fantastic newly positioned and tripled in size ‘The Food Shop’ at The Shops at Dartington, on Saturday 15th March. With live jazz music and local producers treating visitors to tastings including Blueberry Brothers, Bell & Loxton, South Devon Chilli Farm, Tom’s Pies and Partridge Farm, there was a real buzz around The Shops at Dartington.

Commenting on Saturday’s launch, Managing Director of The Shops at Dartington, Barbara King said: “We were delighted with the success of the official launch of ‘The...