Today we find out how some of Cambridge’s local independents began, by accident or design. We celebrate the tomato with an essay from Laura Donohue and ideas for cooking them from local chefs Tristan Welch, Sam Carter, Rosie Sykes and Jamie Mountford. Also, Steve Thompson goes foraging and has ideas for fermenting, including honey with … [Read more...]

Cambridge's Rice Boat cooks Keralan food, we find out what it is, how they achieve the authentic flavours and how it was that the idea of Cobra beer arose not in India, but in Cambridge. Local chefs Tristan Welch and Rosie Sykes with ideas for onions and Dave Fox explains what to do about the new pest that is attacking the onion family on … [Read more...]

Why the Maypole pub is under threat. Guild of Food Writers' runner up, Laura Donohue, tells us about apricots. Tristan Welch, Alex Collis and Sam Dyer cook straight from the allotment as part of Cambridge Sustainable Food's Cambridge Vegetable Festival. Steve Thompson of the Green Man in Grantchester goes July foraging. The effect of the Mill Road … [Read more...]

Matt Bentman and Alan Alder present the fortnightly food magazine. In this edition, Sam Carter reveals how one of the dishes at Restaurant 22 is made, plus ideas from local chefs Rosie Sykes, Tristan Welch and Jamie Mountford. Quadrille's Sarah Lavelle reviews The Guild of Food Writers' top book. Dave Fox has advice on how to prepare your vegetable … [Read more...]

Food writer Felicity Cloake on her six-week cycle tour of France in search of the perfect croissant. We go foraging with Steve Tompson of Grantchester's Green Man. Rosie Sykes and Tristan Welch with ideas for potatoes. The Oxford-Cambridge wine tasting 'taste off'. Local food blogger Laura Donohue talks about...food! … [Read more...]

Tim Hayward on the forthcoming book celebrating 100 years of Fitzbillies; the new Little Petra in Mill Road; the new NY Wines in Shelford; ideas for broad beans from Rosie Sykes, Tristan Welch and Jamie Mountford; foraging with Gemma Whiting of Linton Kitchen; Bovril and Cola in food history with Lesley Stenitz. Presented by Matt Bentman, Alan … [Read more...]

A visit to Cambridge's newest artisan food shop, Meadows. Local chefs' reactions to the demise of Jamie Oliver's restaurants. Ideas for asparagus from Tristan Welch and Rosie Sykes. Vine and Cork: bringing you wines from small-volume producers of Italian wines that you won't find elsewhere. Presented by Matt Bentman and Alan Alder. … [Read more...]