Food Safari Blog
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Closing the gap?
May 5, 2012
At Snape Farmers Market today, there was finally a sense that the hungry gap was coming to an end! March and April, as any gardener or recipient of local vegetable box deliveries, will tell you are the boring months. Spring is in the air, we’re tired of roots, leeks and English apples have come to [...]
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Ghostly goings on in Southwold
May 4, 2012
It was an exceptionally cold and drizzly May evening as the crowds gathered in Southwold to celebrate our local brewery, Adnams, making Ghost Ship part of their permanent range. Ghost Ship is inspired by the most haunted pub in the Adnams’s estate, The Bell in Walberswick, where we base Food Safari’s Catch & Cook! Apparently the [...]
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A family of seals on our Seafood Safari
April 16, 2012
Last Saturday we were privileged to see a family of five seals sunbathing on a remote beach at low tide on the River Ore at Orford. We had set off in search of lobsters on our regular Seafood in a Day trip to Orford. It was an inspiring spring morning with the sun breaking through [...]
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Brand New Radio 4 Kitchen Cabinet – recorded at Food Safari HQ
February 2, 2012
Our television screens are crammed with food and cookery programmes, but our radios less so. Food Safari’s friend, Anna Colquhoun, the Culinary Anthropologist and her friend Robert Abel, Head of Radio at producers Somethin’ Else came up with the idea of a new food panel programme along the lines of Gardeners Question Time. The BBC were interested [...]
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A Seafood Safari on Country Tracks on BBC1
December 4, 2011
At Food Safari we are often contacted by TV producers researching Suffolk food and drink and we’re obviously delighted to help put Suffolk on the map! In June 2011 BBC1′s Country Tracks came to Suffolk to make a programme with Helen Skelton, of Blue Peter. Helen a visited historic Bury St Edmunds, a Suffolk Punch farm and [...]
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Food Safari goes west for a day at Cheese School
November 6, 2011
The thing I found hardest about being pregnant both times was not eating soft, blue or unpasteurized cheese! I’m such a big cheese fan that I asked my husband to stock up the fridge with the very best artisan cheese ready for when the baby arrived! So it didn’t take much to persuade me to [...]
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BBC2 Great British Food Revival
November 2, 2011
Back in the summer we got a call from the producers of BBC2′s Great British Food Revival who were researching a programme about rare breed beef. The programme, presented by John Torode, was screened in November and featured Food Safari’s Beef Butchery Workshop with Gerard King at the Suffolk Food Hall. The programme aimed to [...]
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Food Safari at Harvest at Jimmy’s
September 20, 2011
I knew there was a growing interest in foraging for wild food, but nothing prepared me for the hundreds of people who took part in our wild food forays at Harvest at Jimmy’s in mid-September! Over the course of the festival weekend we took nearly 300 people into the woods and along the hedgerows at [...]
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Brand new course for 2011: Artisan bread in a day
June 26, 2011
Being an enthusiastic amateur baker, I adamantly refuse to buy bread as I know I can make it better than I can buy it anywhere in Suffolk . . . .until now! Since I set up Food Safari I’ve been keen to run a bread course but I was unable to find a baker who [...]
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Truth behind the label: Free Range versus outdoor bred and reared
October 21, 2010
Yesterday’s news about the Waitrose multimillion pound ad campaign with Heston Blumenthal and Delia Smith’s, highlights the widespread confusion about the labeling of pork. You can read the story here: The Independent. On our Food Safari visits to Blythburgh Pork I am always fascinated to see how many, educated and foodie people are confused [...]
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