Bens Blog
01 Jul 2019
Bottoms Up! Ben’s Booze News for July.
When it rains it pours. I’d just got back from my wine jolly to Sicily when the phone rings...
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02 May 2019
Ben’s Wine & Tapas Booze News
Our first ‘tell us what you think so you can help us chose which new wines to stock’ tastin...
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07 Dec 2018
Mince Pies and good palm fats – an update
With our mince pies flying off the shelves at this time of year, we inevitably face questio...
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22 Oct 2018
Stop picking on farmers
Does anyone else feel that since the release a few week’s ago of the UN Intergovernme...
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15 May 2018
Raise a glass of English Fizz
There’s a bit of a do on this weekend – we’ll be open as usual for celebrators ...
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13 Mar 2018
Being realistic about bacon
I’m probably shooting myself in the foot drawing attention to ‘Yes, bacon really is killing...
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15 Feb 2018
Two very different Bakewells
The news is full of links between so called ‘ultra-processed’ food and cancer, with another...
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15 Jan 2018
Ben’s take on Veganuary
Veganuary will be over soon but, let’s not kid ourselves, things aren’t going to return to ...
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15 Jan 2018
The minefield that is food packaging
As a business we are constantly striving to do our bit to cut carbon emissions and reduce w...
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28 Nov 2017
Festive goodies
Without the stress of making thousands of organic mince pies for the Riverford veg boxes, w...
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30 Oct 2017
The grass is greener – or is it?
It seems ‘grass fed’ is becoming more and more of a buzzword – used at every opportun...
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10 Oct 2017
Prices and provenance
Pass the butter please – if you’re lucky enough to have any. Now that we’ve all accep...
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01 Sep 2017
The peril of wellness diets
The other summer food news that won’t go away seems to have been around the perils of so-ca...
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01 Sep 2017
Organic or not, food is more than just a commodity
It might just be me but the summer news season seems to have been particularly weak, with t...
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18 Aug 2017
The real problem behind Southern Salad’s demise
I talked last week on the blog about food security and how the fall in the pound, post Brex...
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11 Aug 2017
Why we need to dig potatoes
One thing all Watsons have in common, despite loving our food, is that we don’t like to spe...
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04 Aug 2017
The chicken or the egg? Either way it’s a scandal
Did you know that the average chicken has more room in the fridge or oven than it ever did ...
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28 Jul 2017
No chlorine chickens here
I’ve spent twelve months not mentioning politics (in general) and BREXIT (in particular) bu...
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19 Jun 2017
Thinking Aloud!
Please excuse the rather self-indulgent nature of the following – it’s me think...
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27 Apr 2017
It’s Happened!
The new signs and website are up. Everything else is the same so I hope you’ll agree that i...
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20 Apr 2017
An ode to Begude
With twelve of the Domaine Begude wines (including magnums of the top Chardonnay and Pinot ...
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24 Mar 2017
Ben’s Wine & Tapas Update
We’re still feeling our way but, judging from the feedback, we’re doing most things right. ...
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24 Mar 2017
More About The Name Change
Things are finally happening on the renaming front. New signs will be going up in the next ...
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24 Mar 2017
Natural Cure Bacon
From the butchery at Staverton, is our ‘Natural Cure’ bacon. Ali seems to have got it down ...
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