My Life in Food

IT’S Lyme’s best kept culinary secret – but not for long. To celebrate his tenth anniversary of owning the Mariners Hotel, Jerry Ramsdale is launching a number of new initiatives with the emphasis very much on fine dining. […]

FEASTING at River Cottage, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s farm-cum-restaurant-cum-culinary school-cum venue, on the outskirts of Axminster, is a real celebration of great food set against the glorious backdrop of Park Farm. As a dining experience, it would be difficult to find a more rustic setting. […]

MY introduction to French cuisine could not have been in more simple circumstances. In the early 1980s, when I was still playing football, Lyme Regis were invited to play at match in the Normandy village of Creully, one of the first villages to be liberated after the D-Day landings. […]

GROWING up in a working class family there were few if any occasions when we dined out as a family. My mother was a great cook and I think my Dad never felt any restaurant could come up to mum’s standard. He was right. […]