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Lives Launches its Lincolnshire Cookbook

LIVES recipe book LIVES First Responders are used to providing rapid help and peace of mind for Lincolnshire communities. Now the charity can help you create something delicious with equal expedience. The charity has cooked up an amazing new book packed with local recipes, enlisting chef Darren Rogan, photographer David Harrison and Epix media to work on their project… Patience, they reckon, is a virtue. Sadly it’s not a virtue with which magazine editors are blessed. Always on deadline, we want everything yesterday and we’re eternally over-eager. Chefs, by contrast, recognise that their best dishes are those in which time has been invested; ones that have been cooked slowly, gently, with labour lovingly expended in their preparation. It’s the same...

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Curtis’s Great Local Food…

Tradition meets technology as one of Lincolnshire’s longest established butchers and bakers is making its products available on Yummy, the...

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Wholly Smoke

This month we revisited Highway 61, or at least the A17, to visit a Lincolnshire restauranteur providing phenomenal authentic barbecue...

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The Big Cheese

With such diversity, such popularity and such ubiquity in our diet, cheese is not so much food as a lifestyle,...

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Dining Out: The Petwood Hotel

Keep calm, and carry on enjoying great dining in a traditional setting… just like the Dambusters – who, of course,...

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Dining Out: Ye Olde Red Lion

It’s more important than ever to support local restaurants and pubs, so this month we’ve even more cause to recommend...

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Dining Out: A Meal Fit for the Duke

If it’s good enough for the Duke, it’s good enough for the Editor! This month Rob Davis enjoys the fine...

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Dining Out: The Red Lion at Bicker

This month we’re celebrating the autumn reopening of one of the county’s best pub restaurants, providing great food in a...

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Dining Out: The Cross Keys at Grasby

Next month will mark the Cross Keys at Grasby’s second anniversary, and what a couple of years it has been!...

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Dining Out: Stallingborough Grange

Home grown chefs, homemade dishes and a ‘home from home’ feel. These are the attributes which make Stallingborough Grange one...

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Lincolnshire’s Local Food, Drink and Restaurants…

A is for Asparagus: Asparagus is best when it is fresh and has a tip which is tightly closed, before...

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Dining Out: The Lincoln Hotel…

The arrival of a new chef at The Lincoln Hotel a year ago has lead to a huge improvement and...

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Dining Out: San Pietro…

Verisimo. The Italian operatic movement from the post-romantic era most associated with the likes of Mascagni and Leoncavallo. The best...

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Dining Out: The Old Tile Works…

This month we’re enjoying dining in style… or rather, dining around tiles, with a rather smart daytime dining experience within...

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The Lincolnshire Hamper

It’s a cliché to state that ours is the county that feeds the country, but how much of that remains...

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Dining Out: The Pig & Whistle at Healing Manor

Something new for 2019; Healing Manor’s Pig & Whistle, and what a treat it is! Not only is it a...

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Dining Out at The Quayside

The Quayside Hotel & Bar encompasses everything you could ever want in a modern dining venue; it’s in a beautiful...

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Dining Out at The Thatched Cottage

Pubs were an important part of British culture, and there would be four or five to every village. They still...

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Good Honest Ales…

This month we’ve an exclusive interview with fourth generation brewer Stuart Bateman, as Batemans Brewery celebrates 100 years as the...

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Dining Out at The Ram

The Ram in Lincolnshire’s adopted town of Newark is a bar & brasserie for all the seasons. In spring and...

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Picking Strawberries at Willows Farm

Fresh strawberries with cream is a cliché of a British summer. It’s a picnic highlight, Wimbledon classic and welcome treat after...

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Pride’s Review on the White Hart in Lincoln

The White Hart in Lincoln has always been a welcoming sight. After scaling Steep Hill or a day touring the...