Martin Hesp
All in Food
Meat eating has had a bad press - but the media never bothers to look at the idea that there are different ways of producing meat. Now a new project called Farm Wilder intends to bring the very best environmentally-friendly meat to the market
Now is the season of fruitfulness in the English West Country - this article celebrates the sort of ingredients and dishes you can enjoy in September
Martin Hesp celebrates the new Taste East Devon Festival with lunch at a very special country hotel - The PIG at Combe serves a 25-mile-menu which more or less sums up all that is good about eating and drinking in the East Devon area
Martin Hesp pays tribute to the llfe of his old friend Brendan Sellick - sometimes billed in the media as “The World’s Lat Mud-Horse Fisherman”
Martin Hesp reviews a very useful cookbook indeed, one which focuses on catering for two - which is actually the number of people most likely to sit down for lunch or dinner. Two’s Company is by Exeter-based food writer and chef Orlando Murrin
Reporting an a seminal event which might well help to change the artisan bread-making scene in Britain
Food writer Martin Hesp learns about a whole new way to barbecue - something which you can literally do at the press of a button
Room with a view - or rather, dining room with a view… We’re looking for suggestions - the best cafes, pubs or restaurants with sea-views… In Devon, Dorset, Somerset or Cornwall in this particular case…
We go back to the beach with Dan the Fishman for the first seafood picnic in 18 months - good to be back having an adventure after 18 months in pandemic lockdown
Remembering the old Fifteen Cornwall inspired by Jamie Oliver -= with a fuzzy video of the man himself
The Sharpham Estate hosted its first open day after all the Covid lockdowns - and Martin Hesp was there to enjoy the views and taste the wine and the cheese
Went to a barbecue this week - and for once it was actually a work meeting - but why not mix business with pleasure? At this event we were talking about an amazing new kind of barbecue called the Masterbuilt Gravity Series
A famous dinner of beef, followed by beef, followed by beef, was staged a couple of years ago at The Farmer’s Arms - one opf the best pubs in Somerset
Woods at Dulverton on Exmoor has now won Britain’s Wine Pub Award of the Year for an amazing 11 years in a row
One of the most remarkable fish and chip takeaways in the UK has opened in Cornwall - it’s the dreamchild of a very talented chef called Ross Sloan
Martin Hesp recalls the tie he joined a group of Dartmoor farmers on a trip to the Simmental in Switzerland
Continuing our series about great West Country chefs Martin Hesp writes about his old pal Matt Mason and recalls the day he learned to cook in Matt’s old kitchen at the Jack in the Green alongside half a dozen rugby players from the Exeter Chiefs
In our series on great West Country chefs, Martin Hesp talks to Nathan Outlaw on the very day he was told that his Port Isaac had been officially named "best place to eat in the whole of Britain…
