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Thousands of local food producers around the UK need our support, as food festivals, restaurants and cafes have been unable to run as normal. Luckily, many have adapted to online selling - and as consumers, we can help keep livelihoods going, and enjoy some seriously...
A cheesemonger, a beekeeper, a farmer and a saltseller walk into a room…
Hay Festival must be one of our most favourite places to go in the world. To attend talks, to eat and drink, to read books, what could be better? Well, to be asked to take part in a discussion on family businesses was pretty amazing. Our discussion was centred around...
A Panad With… Rude Health’s Nick Barnard
Eat right, stay brilliant - so it says on every box of our favourite Rude Health cereal. Next up in our A Panad With... feature is Nick Barnard, co-founder of the company with his wife Camilla. We rarely find someone as discerning about what they consume, as you will...
A Panad with… Green & Blacks’ Micah Carr-Hill
Following on from our interview with award-winning Chef Tomos Parry, next up is Micah Carr-Hill, a freelance Taste Consultant, who works for Green & Black's chocolate, amongst others. He is the man responsible for the tastes of most of the iconic chocolate brand's...
Creative Juices at the ready! WIN two new salts from Hoxton Street Monster Supplies
We have been collaborating with innovative Hoxton Street Monster Supplies shop for a few years now, helping produce their fabulous Salt Made from Tears range. For these clever products, our salts are beautifully packaged in glass bottles and branded as salt 'made from...
Umami & appetite
Despite developing our 3 gold star winning Umami seasoning with our friends at The Mushroom Garden several years ago, it is still the flavour that we get asked to explain to our customers the most. Taking its name from the Japanese word for 'deliciousness', Umami is a...
Curating Chocolate: The best job ever?
This year, our favourite event, Abergavenny Food Festival, got even better. This was largely due to sharing a stand with Cocoa Runners - dubbed 'the Wine Society for chocolate' by the Telegraph, this innovative company sources the very finest chocolate from around the...
A day of mellow fruitfulness
Autumn has arrived, and with it, the autumnal Snowdonia mushroom foray and feast for our book project. Here's a sneak preview of the stunning day. For more info on the book and to buy your copy in advance, head to Unbound. The sunrise was superb, red sky reminding us...
21 delicious things to try in Wales
We're not quite sure you can narrow down the Welsh foods that you must try into just 21, but we were rather excited when we read that we were included in this Buzzfeed list. Particular favourites also on the list include Gower Cottage Brownies, who makes the...
A match made in Wales
I've failed to find a succinct and clever quote to explain how potatoes and salt need each other, but the fact remains that without seasoning potatoes can be underwhelming. How wonderful is it, then, that both Blas y Tir Pembrokeshire Earlies and Halen Môn are...