Regional food
South West England
Luscious clotted cream, ancient cider orchards, fish silvery and fresh from the sea - this is a land of plenty. Roskilly's delicious farmhouse ice cream is made on their farm at Helston, Cornwall - you can meet the cows that provide the milk, and be tempted by a multitude of home made delights in their ice cream parlour. Devon lanes sparkle with the earliest spring primroses and early lamb is cooked with style and offered alongside real ales in thatched pubs in sleepy villages. A cornucopia of smoked delights, from eel to garlic, awaits visitors to Brown and Forrest's Somerset Smokery. Their adjoining restaurant is a magnet for 'foodies' - hot smoked salmon steaks flavoured with garlic and spices ooze flavour. Local wines are crisp and dry, perfect with freshly caught mackerel pan-fried with herbs or soused in piquant vinegar and served with locally made farmhouse breads. Restaurants perch on harboursides, menus offering the best of the day’s catch and the finest West Country beef and poultry. Cornish Yarg, a unique, nettle wrapped cheese with the tang of green pastures, is the highlight of cheeseboards and the ideal prelude to a final regional treat - Julian Temperley’s very special apple brandy from Somerset.
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