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Killerton Estate takes top national award

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 08/06/2017 - 11:54am

Killerton Estate in Devon walked away with the top Overall Drinks Award at the National Trust’s annual Fine Farm Produce Awards, presented at BBC Countryfile Live in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. Conygree Farm on the Sherborne Park Estate won the Farming with Nature Award and, in all, 12 National Trust places and products in the South West came away as winners.

Now in their twelfth year, the awards aim to prove that sustainable food isn’t just good for nature, it tastes better too. They celebrate the very best produce from the Trust’s 1,500 tenant farmers and estates ­– looking...

Whirlwind of wins for Devon cheesemakers

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 07/29/2016 - 11:37am

The Devon cheesemakers have done it again!

Quicke’s have had a triple triumph at the International Cheese Awards 2016 winning two Gold medals and one Silver. Additionally, the Guild of Fine Food has also this week announced its annual Great Taste stars – with two of Quicke’s cheeses receiving two stars, and four more receiving one star.

International Cheese Awards (ICA) Organised by Nantwich Agricultural Society, ICA is one of the biggest cheese events in the world. Established in 1897, the annual awards take place at Dorfield Park, Nantwich. On Tuesday 26th July, over 200...

Taste

Event Date: 
07/10/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Tea: how do you take yours? Milk no sugar. Milk in first. No milk at all? Builders, Earl Grey… Herbal?

What’s behind our choices? What defines our identity? Do we really fall into “social tribes” and if so, how far up the social ladder is our tribe? Can we climb higher?

Inspired by the tapestries of Grayson Perry, Taste is a delicious romp of a show with humour, irreverence and playfulness at its heart. Blending dance from choreographers Sally Knight (Cscape, Kneehigh) and Neil Paris (Fabulous Beast), and writing from Murray Lachlan Young (BBC Radio 2 & 4), Taste...