John Raby's Food & Travel
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Month: Feb 2016
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Arriving at The Cafe down at Porlock Weir this month, I found Chef Andrew Dixon hard at work feeding a restaurant full of Exmoor Food Fest punters. Effortlessly turning out mouthwatering specialties like Pork Faggot, surrounded by seasonal vegetables and capped with a golden brown potato rosti, and then Grilled Cornish Mackerel with char-grilled vegetables…
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Read an excerpt from my new novel; a romantic thriller with a heavy slice of action set in the beautiful Caribbean… Georgetown, Exuma, The Bahamas Carrie Miller steered her nail polish red, GMC Yukon XL towards the Hotel Bluewater Bay. Tyres crunching to a halt outside the hotel, shapely legs, sporting a pair of shiny black Jimmy Choo’s,…
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Out in the sticks, a few miles north of Taunton, you will find Lower Clavelshay Farm. Ok, nothing unusual there because after all we are in rural Somerset, aren’t we? However, within this farm, you will find a gastronomic delight called Clavelshay Barn restaurant. And yes, as the name would suggest, it is in a…
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This is Barrie Tucker. Barrie is the Head Chef at the Notley Arms over at Monksilver, in West Somerset. He tells me that he once came 2nd place in a national Scotch Egg making competition. Well they do say that the proof of the pudding is in the eating don’t they? After dropping a number…
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