Dine the
isles
Melissa Hemsley is a cook, food author, British Vogue columnist and founder of the Sustainability Sessions. Her passion for sustainability, the environment and farming, local produce and community as well as wholesome, nourishing food could not be more in line with our own Taste of Scilly ethos, as she found to her delight on a visit to Scilly last summer.
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s I flew in over the tiny dots in the shimmering silver sea, for my first visit to the Isles of Scilly, it was very evident how precious and unprotected these little islands looked. I’d heard about all the lovely local produce grown and nurtured on the islands… this microcosm of sustainable living and lifestyle – it spoke my language, and I couldn’t wait to get stuck in! My first experience took me to the Low Tide event, on a sand bar between Tresco and Bryher. It only happens a handful of times a year during dramatic spring tides, and the channel between the islands is dry enough to walk between the two on foot. Never one to pass up a party, » 67