Archive - The Wallfish Journal

"We're trying to grow a rainforest within 20 years"

An exchange with Higher Farm's Matteo Grasso on trees, ducks, and the grisly truths of a more resilient food system

21 mins ago •

June 2025

The return of the Somerset Food Trail, are we all actually eating empty calories, and where to find a nice pint in Bristol

Also featuring a mugging on the author, committed by a Bristolian seagull

Jun 18 •

Long, slimy, and oft forgotten

How to revive a once abundant source of protein while returning life to Somerset rivers

Jun 4 •

May 2025

Local food personality emerges as a Sith Lord, major free-range chicken producer folds, and Somerset represented in street food awards

Also including a brief ice cream update and – bizarrely – found poetry from a food PR’s presser

May 21 •

Somerset's ice cream counterculture

Generally speaking, to buy an ice cream is to buy into industrial, ultra-processed food. Here in dairy country however, small-scale producers are…

May 7 •

April 2025

Somerset's top 31 restaurants (IMO)

Otherwise known as the WFJ’s very biased, and probably eternally provisional, 'power rankings'

Apr 23 •

How to kill the hospitality industry, find great Filipino food, and save one of the UK’s greatest cultural assets

All not quite in a day’s work

Apr 9 •

March 2025

Would you pay £10 for a bacon sandwich?

Are visitors to Frome’s Rye Bakery getting fleeced, or is this the true cost of a good, responsibly-made sarnie?

Mar 26 •

Slow Food: Snails and the Culinary Geology of Somerset

The surprising history of snail-eating in Somerset reminds us of the relationship between our food and the landscapes that produce it.

Published on Geo Somerset • Mar 19

January 2025

"Pain, tears, humiliation" in a Somerset restaurant kitchen

Toxic work cultures exist in restaurants more than you probably think – even ones claiming to be ‘ethical’ and ‘sustainable’

Jan 2 •

December 2024

Reflections on Freudian food associations, farmers asking government to "tax my ass(ets)", the search for good bacon, and some other things

This week’s WFJ was set to be a doozy.

Dec 18, 2024 •

How Somerset paved the way for UK farmers' markets

What started in Bath has grown into a national movement highlighting the shortcomings of industrially-produced food

Dec 11, 2024 •

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