Experimenting in the Gliffaes Kitchens Quite often people scoff at the point of Twitter but it is thanks to Twitter and the Abergavenny Food Festival that Susie made contact with Adele Nozedar, author of, ‘The Hedgerow Handbook‘. It also turns out that Adele lives just down the road from Gliffaes. After Susie went to hear [...]

Two weekend ago Abergavenny staged its now annual Food Festival, a fantastic gathering of chefs, cooks, writers, producers, farmers, foragers and quite simply anyone who enjoys good food. This event happens every September and is always worth a visit. Gliffaes Head Chef, Karl Cheetham, gave two demonstations during the weekend, one of which we filmed. [...]

Ten days ago Olivia ( my younger daughter) and I went over to Builth Wells to pick up two Oxford and Sandy Black weaners. A weaner being a young pig, just weaned from its mother, and bought to fatten up for six to eight months ready for the table. There is a growing interest in [...]

The U.K. has over 1200 different cheeses, more types than France has, which everyone thinks is the home of cheese. Wales alone has about 150 cheeses made by around 25 cheese makers. The growth of the artisan cheese maker has really taken off in the last fifteen or so years across Wales. Farmers soon realised [...]