NIBBLES & TIPPLES
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Issue 82 2020
Credit: Fen Farm Dairy
Nibbles &Tipples February Article By Cheryl Cade, Beer Educator There are a few places that trigger very special memories for me. The Assembly House is one of them. I recall the day it caught fire, I cried. It was the last link I had to my grandmother. When shopping for school shoes, if we behaved, we were treated to tea and a sausage roll in the chandelier-lit dining room, with fine china; I felt like a princess. Yet phoenix-like, it rose from the flames and it is still a treat that on down days I enjoy. Under the leadership of Richard Hughes, it has kept its traditional expectation of quality, yet innovated with its Cooking School, bringing top Food & Drinks experts to the region to share their skills. A brief chat with Richard over
English Breakfast tea and you become affected with his passion to support quality local produce, leading to a range of events from Cheese to recreations of his time at the Lavender House. It is local produce that I am thinking of at present. Over the last few years, I have been listening to people becoming more concerned about the environment. Each person having different ideas about what they can do to have less of an impact. I don’t think that there is one solution, yet I feel that if we shopped locally, brought seasonally and had knowledge of the food and drink we consume, it can make a positive impact. With this in mind, I travelled to Fen Farm, Bungay, to visit Jonny Crickmore the home of the raw milk dispenser and Baron Bygod. To say that Jonny is passionate about his cows,
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