Food festivals, televised greenwashing, could horse milk ever take off, and the most coveted British food item in Paris

It’s that time of the month again, where digestible news items of at least a vaguely interesting nature, accompanied with some commentary where…

Sep 10 • 

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August 2025

“We need to restore land in a way that's healthier for us, the environment, our communities”

Redwoods Farm’s Amy Chapple on the (not so?) lonely job of farming, regenerative fibs, and difficulty relating to non-farmers

Aug 27 • 

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Farm shops in Somerset, farm shops about Somerset, tea-dunked madeleines, and a big name London chef comes to Frome

It’s that time of the month where I welcomely or unwelcomely offer up some digestible items of a food and farming nature.

Aug 13 • 

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July 2025

Somerset's best restaurants (Summer 2025)

22 restaurants at which you might like to eat next, according to someone who thinks they know what they’re talking about

Jul 30 • 

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Fake honey is everywhere, Britain's eating behaviours will cook the government, and Jeremy Clarkson's an agro-fascist?

Here I am then, back in your inbox with a compilation of recent news and observations (depending on your perspective, some useful, some much less so…

Jul 16 • 

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"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

Jul 2 • 

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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 • 

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Long, slimy, and oft forgotten

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

Jun 4 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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April 2025

31 Somerset restaurants, ranked

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

Apr 23 • 

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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 • 

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