I dreamed of sailing last night – the gale raged around the house all night and still hasn’t blown itself out. Rain is battering the windows and the bright yellow leaves of my cherry tree are all over the garden. I just saw three young persons with enormous rucksacks trudge wearily past – not the [...]
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Local, seasonal, delicious
October 4th, 2008 2 Comments
The Elbournes have been growing orchard fruit for five generations. Their farm shop in Meldreth has been there since 1967, but is only open in season – pretty much August to February. The apples there smell so much more apply than those in the supermarket – the orchards are around Meldreth and the next village, [...]
Tags: apples · autumn · cam valley orchard · cam valley orchards · cambridgeshire · food · local · meldreth · orchard · produce · seasonal
Velvety Icecream
August 29th, 2008 No Comments
Norfolk icecream company Parravani’s have the kind of back story of passion, obsession and love that Häagen Dazs executives would kill for.
In 1898 Giuseppe Parravani stumbles ashore from Italy with only a piece of paper with his brother’s name on. Miraculously, through the power of word of mouth about good icecream, he finds said brother in Norwich, [...]
Tags: east anglia · food · history · icecream · norfolk · parravanis