West Country Food Adventures 2019
Your guide to what's on throughout West Country Food Adventures 13 to 28 July - encouraging you to Taste the Landscape across Somerset
Your guide to what's on throughout West Country Food Adventures 13 to 28 July - encouraging you to Taste the Landscape across Somerset
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Introduction<br />
we chose to live in Somerset, we got to know our new home by eating and drinking our way around the county. A<br />
When<br />
of apples or little shed of eggs by a cottage garden would have us screech to a halt for the freshest produce.<br />
basket<br />
was real farming, with little input other than sun, soil, rain and deep understanding. We discovered cider makers<br />
This<br />
tell us the names of every tree, and bakers from dynasties of village fête-winners. Little by little we understood<br />
who’d<br />
remarkable and precious were the smokers, the shrimp-catchers, the charcuterers and the wine-makers, who use<br />
how<br />
unique landscape to develop our heritage of food and drink. It made us relish our finds more, because we knew the<br />
this<br />
of how much skill and graft had gone into their creation. But, like Breton oysters that can only be tasted in Paris,<br />
stories<br />
the best produce seemed difficult to get hold of in the place it was created.<br />
often<br />
we started a food festival, which has now grown to 16 eat:Festivals this year, spanning towns in North, South, East<br />
So<br />
<strong>West</strong> Somerset, with the greatest produce from the land around them. You’re very welcome to all of them; they’re<br />
and<br />
and fun and keep winning awards. But it all started with little adventures into food and drink.<br />
free<br />
so many of these producers have now thrown open their doors to us all, to come and discover how their<br />
Happily,<br />
flavours are made. <strong>West</strong> <strong>Country</strong> <strong>Food</strong> <strong>Adventures</strong> are an invitation to get to the root of what the land is for.<br />
awesome<br />
can ask questions, taste test, have a go or just have a picnic and go & explore a farm. We’ve tried to make it easy<br />
You<br />
get to by bus, bike, horse or on foot. Most of the events are free and many can be self-led. If you’ve been looking for<br />
to<br />
excuse to delve into the levels or moors, coast or hills of this beautiful part of the world, these <strong>West</strong> <strong>Country</strong> <strong>Food</strong><br />
an<br />
are a great place to start.<br />
<strong>Adventures</strong><br />
& Sarah Milner Simonds<br />
Bev<br />
thanks for their support to Old Mill, The Real Farming Trust and Sedgemoor District Council<br />
With
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