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How food and farming helped shape a Somerset commuter town's identity [WFJ #91]
This small town is home to one of the county’s biggest farmers’ markets
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Hugh Thomas
Queen of the Queen of Cups [WFJ #90]
The 'half-Arab chef with purple hair' bringing not-how-you-imagined-it Middle Eastern food to Somerset
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Hugh Thomas
How much do I spend on food? [WFJ #89]
Auditing where I buy food and drink, and how much money I dedicate to it, yields some surprising discoveries
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What's the beef with Jacob? [WFJ #88]
The MP for North East Somerset triggers a debate on cheap meat that comes with a high price
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Hugh Thomas
October 2023
The Cheese Lord cometh [WFJ #87]
A characterful and democratically-minded cheesemonger starts serving Shepton, Frome, and Devizes
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Hugh Thomas
Owen's Sausages and Hams [WFJ #86]
A "sausage culture" (not euphemistic of the patriarchy) comes to Frome
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To feast on a (Somerset) farm [WFJ #85]
The county's newest dining experience is all about championing local, regenerative, and wild food
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Notes from, and a commentary on, Local Futures' Planet Local Summit [WFJ #84]
Why food and farming was such a recurrent thread at this gathering of minds, cultures, and concepts of happiness
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Hugh Thomas
September 2023
Who grew your clothes? [WFJ #83]
Fashion, like food before it, is starting to reforge our connection with the land. The South West's role in this movement can't be understated
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Should we be paying £3.50 for a litre of ethical milk? [WFJ #82]
Somerset's newest micro dairy highlights the difference between what milk costs and how much we pay for it
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Is this the best edible expression of Somerset right now? [WFJ #81]
When dining on hyperlocal field-to-fork produce in an old cow shed in a former orchard, it's hard to think of anywhere else
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Bad gas from perfectly good food [WFJ #80]
Is producing fuel from food waste an integral part of a more sustainable Somerset, or another example of greenwashing?
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