Join Exeter Cookery School for an afternoon of cookery demonstrations, tea and tastings to celebrate real vanilla.
Since its launch in 2014, National Real Vanilla Day has become an important date in the calendar year for the LittlePod company's friends, suppliers and customers, many of whom are based here in the West Country.
Following last year's hugely successful event at Bumble and Bee in Exmouth, this special day, which is dedicated to informing people about this most marvellous and exotic commodity, is being hosted by Exeter's newest venue on the quay - the fabulous...
Supermarket Morrisons is to cut prices on meat, veg and fruit this week.
A spokesman said it would be reducing prices on nearly 160 products by an average 12 per cent on the items, in the latest round of its Price Crunch campaign. The latest move comes just a month after Morrisons trimmed the price of more than 1,000 products, including toiletries and seasonal fruit and vegetables, by an average of 18%.
Retailers believe that food price inflation is unlikely to arrive until the autumn when the supply of UK-grown fresh produce reduces and they are forced to buy more food...
Poltimore House and Grounds are open with free entry on Sunday 11th September from 11 - 4pm.
There will be a children's trail and quiz (50p entry), an archery demonstration with the chance to try it for yourself for a small fee and Tudor dancing.
Come and see for yourself all that has been achieved at this historic Exeter house.
Our visitors quite often say "oh but you haven't done anything".
On the contrary the house has been slowly dried out after the corrugated iron roof was placed over it, the grounds have been cleared and replanted, the courtyard in the...
Home bakers from Bovey Tracey and around Devon will be competing in the Great Bovey Bake Off.
As part of Bovey’s Nourish Festival of food, craft and music, local bakers are invited to enter the competition, which has grown in popularity over the last three years since it started.
Previous festivals have seen a stream of competitors bringing their cakes for the official tasting, and the organisers anticipate more this year, as home baking continues to grow in popularity. This year’s categories for adults are: Victoria sandwich, chocolate cake, fruit scones and shortbread...
Poltimore House and Grounds are open with free entry on Sunday 11th September from 11 - 4pm.
There will be a children's trail and quiz (50p entry), an archery demonstration with the chance to try it for yourself for a small fee and Tudor dancing. Come and see for yourself all that has been achieved at this historic Exeter house.
Our visitors quite often say "oh but you haven't done anything".
On the contrary the house has been slowly dried out after the corrugated iron roof was placed over it, the grounds have been cleared and replanted, the courtyard in the house...
Over 900,000 people in the South West of England are at risk of food poisoning from pink burgers at Bank Holiday barbecues, according to research released today by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The research reveals that despite 69% stating they are concerned about food poisoning, almost a third (29%) of people in the South West would eat a burger that isn’t fully cooked through. One in 10 (11%) said that they actually prefer burgers cooked this way, and 61% admit to undercooking them at home. The FSA is encouraging all those who are getting their BBQs out this weekend to ensure they...
The organisers of the Nourish Festival are looking forward to this year’s festival which takes place in early September.
The Festival will bring some of the region’s top food producers and craft makers to Bovey Tracey, alongside a programme of nationally and internationally renowned musicians.
This year, Nourish Festival launches The Devon Street Food Awards in association with Devon Life, a lively competition to decide who is the Best Street producer in Devon. Devon is packed full of inspirational and exciting street food producers and Nourish celebrates our Food Heroes...
Eleven South West products (27 nationally) were bestowed with one of the food and farming industry’s highest honours, a National Trust Fine Farm Produce Award, at BBC Countryfile Live yesterday, with Tregullas Farm, the most southerly farm on mainland Britain, winning the National Trust’s first-ever ‘Farming with Nature’ award. Winner of the Overall Drinks Award, the Killerton Estate near Exeter is one of the largest estates looked after by the National Trust, and one of Devon’s most innovative producers. As pure as can be, its moreish sweet-sharp apple juice is pressed using traditional...
Music: Thu 1, Fri 2 & Sat 3 September Food & Craft: Sat 3 Sept
The Nourish Food Fair will fill Bovey's high street with some of the best producers from the South West on Sat 3 September. Stalls will be selling a huge variety of locally produced food including artisan cheeses, preserves, handmade chocolates, oils, pies and speciality mushrooms.
A selection of street food will offer Caribbean, Spanish, Moroccan, wood fired Italian pizza, French crepes, Mexican, local seafood and the good old British Banger.
The Bovey Bake Off and Junior Bovey Bake Off will...
Building upon the success and popularity of the Exeter Street Food brand, the team from the Hubb Group are launching two brand new events in Exeter for late summer / autumn 2016!
Hubb Group are launching their Cockt-Ale Festiva l (Exeter's Piazza Terracina, Saturday 24th September 2016 11am – 8pm) and The Great Artisan Feast Festival on Saturday 15th October 2016, 10am - 8pm at Exeter's Southernhay Gardens.
Cockt-Ale Festival: Drinks & Entertainment Take Centre Stage at Exeter's Piazza Terracina (24 September 2016)
