You wouldn’t think that a pig farm would be quiet, would you? ‘They’re quiet because they’re content’, Helen’s husband Sam told me when I visited them on Thursday. I was going to write a long explanation as to why their beautiful pigs...
Who doesn’t love a home cooked ham at Christmas? I have totally fallen for this ginger glaze recipe by Nigella. Remember that if you fancy doing one for yourself, our Christmas Market is open right now. As well as organic gammon, there’s turkey...
At the end of a narrow, potholed and - on Thursday at least - exceptionally muddy track on the edge of Dartmoor is a farm. And on that farm lives John. John is an organic turkey farmer. A young man on a mission,...
Charlie’s brilliant. She joined the Wylde team this week, and so I asked her what she tends to cook at home. Ramen, was the answer. You’re gonna fit in just fine, I thought. Ramen is such a fabulous dish on so many levels. It’s so...
Donald Hall was an American poet. And a really good one, too. When I was a teenager, I read his poem 'Maple Syrup'. It's about a man returning to his dead grandfather's house, with his wife. In the cellar they find a...
This skull comes from Oaxaca. At least, that’s where I bought it. In reality, it probably comes from the same factory as all the other millions of ornamental calaveras that you see for sale in Mexico. Because skulls really do seem to be something of...
Not every Wylde box is as cute as this one. But customers do tell us how beautiful the produce is. Which is rather lovely. So we'd love to celebrate this with some unboxing videos.If, when your order arrives next Friday, you can film...
Seen any deer recently?Unless you live in – and never leave – a big city, the chances are that you have.They’re everywhere. And, while they might look cute, they’re a real problem. It’s because there’s too many of them - 2 million...
It was a little restaurant in a back street not far from where we lived. They specialised in paellas and other ‘arroces’. The food was fabulous. But the thing I remember best was the sign outside the door with the opening hours on...
It ain’t often you get an invitation from a Duchess. Not me, anyway. So when The Duchess of Richmond and Gordon - I know! - invited us to her Gut Health Conference at Goodwood this week, we said yes. Obvs. And it was...
Changeover day is normally a Saturday. Turns out nature’s no different. Yesterday marked the autumn equinox – the point when the sun passes directly over the equator and starts focusing on warming up our pals in the Southern Hemisphere. As a result, this...
Spencer Metzger is a legend. Until recently he was Head Chef at the Ritz, but he first got my attention when he won Great British Menu a couple of years ago. His cooking is off the scale good, but it was his...