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Welsh Food Stories: The Peaches of Costa Ceredigion

Carwyn Graves “I’m a climate-change farmer now,” says Nathan Richards as he gestures towards the grove of Mediterranean stone fruit…

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Welsh Food Stories: Mainstreaming Welsh wine

Carwyn Graves  ‘We could put loads of lab cultured yeast into this and make it taste like a conventional Cabernet…

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Welsh Food Stories: A Tea Plantation in the Vale

Carwyn Graves The work needed to make a homely cup of tea may be hidden from most of us –…

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Welsh Food Stories: On the trail of the Welsh pie

Carwyn Graves How can you get a good hot lunch, affordably and on the go in the middle of a…

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Welsh Food Stories: Welsh Food and Women

Carwyn Graves The unsung heroes of Welsh food are without any doubt, women. Wales’ most prominent chefs may well currently…

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Welsh Food Stories: Should we try to feed the nation?

Carwyn Graves This fictitious discussion was recorded at a bar in Aberystwyth in June 2023, and is recounted here in…

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Welsh Food Stories: Weeds of the Future

Carwyn Graves Food fads are sadly all too common. But the current regenesis of Welsh seaweed, celebrated on National Laverbread…

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Review: Welsh Food Stories by Carwyn Graves

Jon Gower It’s no mean feat to write a book that has the heft of authority while at the same…

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A short history of Laverbread – the Welsh Marmite?

Carwyn Graves Porphyra umbilicalis, Bara lawr, the Welshman’s caviar, Laver bread. A dark green – or is it red? –…

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The Welsh food habits that die hard

Carwyn Graves An astonishing number of Welsh food traditions remain alive in the 2020s, despite their lack of cultural cachéand…

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Food Tales from Wales: The Land in a Piece of Sheep’s Cheese

Carwyn Graves It’s well known that sheep have fashioned the Welsh landscape for hundreds of years, but less widely appreciated…

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Welsh Food Tales: Small is Beautiful?

Carwyn Graves ‘We live locally, we have a family tradition of enjoying fish and we wanted to give it a…

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