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  • Show time!

    02 September 2016 Speciality Bites
    It’s our favourite time of year, and I think my 17th Speciality & Fine Food Fair

  • “Simple and true”

    29 August 2016 On The Farm
    Autumn is a time for reflection at Jimmy’s Farm. We’re looking back on what has been a great year for us. When we started the business, the vision was to produce high quality, high welfare meat and continue the bloodlines of traditional British pig breeds,…

  • “Don’t sway to populists”

    25 August 2016 Cheese Talk
    With consumer demands continually fluctuating and markets changing on a yearly basis, it’s almost impossible to predict what the new craze or sudden ‘loser’ will be.

  • “New days and new ways”

    25 August 2016 Opinion
    Since the momentous decision of 23rd June, rarely a day has passed without someone examining the consequences, outcomes and impact of that Brexit vote

  • “Substitute”

    25 August 2016 Town Crier
    When The Who’s Roger Daltrey sings “I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth,” one might be forgiven for thinking that he came from a family of habitual deli-sample guzzlers

  • “Weather”

    25 August 2016 Fine Food
    September is an agreeable month. There’s often an interlude of decent weather in the US which has become known as an “Indian Summer” (allegedly because the Native Americans needed autumn sunshine to ripen the maize that was their staple diet)

  • “What’s so good about summer?”

    25 August 2016 Expert Eye
    For all my working life in speciality food, we have yearned for the balmy, sunshine days of summer when customers seem in a happier frame of mind and have the delightful tendency to spend a little more money in a short space of time prompted by…

  • The Interview: Nigel Cope

    22 August 2016 News
    Passion, dedicated and teamwork have helped Nigel Cope build Cottage Delight from kitchen table project to one of our industry's best-loved brands. Here, he tells us how he makes it work

  • Time for a Break?

    11 August 2016 Speciality Bites
    The chances are that you are reading this before you go on holiday or after you come back, and hopefully not whilst you are away! I had to chuckle to myself when listening to the headline news on the radio yesterday in the car. 7 days…

  • Try Something Different

    01 August 2016 Speciality Bites
    After a very busy summer so far, finally I have had the opportunity over the last couple of weeks to call into a few speciality food retailers

  • Moving On!

    20 July 2016 Speciality Bites
    Sorry it’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog, but this has been at the end of an extremely busy two months and I am glad to start this week as a “normal week” for the first time for a while. Trips to…

  • “MasterRind”

    12 July 2016 Town Crier
    What qualities make a good cheesemonger? That’s a question we were looking to answer recently at the British Cheese Awards, where a competition was run to identify Britain’s Best Young Cheesemonger, sponsored by Anthony Rowcliffe & Son, now in their third generation of cheese specialist
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