Regional food
England
Lick luscious dairy ice cream on a Devon beach, crunch crisp stalks of celery in a Fenland pub or bite into a warm, floury scone in a tearoom overlooking Windermere in the Lake District. Regional food and drink in England adds 'taste!' to the glorious scenery. Start a day in the country with a visit to a Farmer's Market where stallholders got up at dawn to harvest dew touched lettuces and ripe, red tomatoes warm from the vine. See stalls heaped with cakes, pies, fudge and toffees and always a surprise – gleaming jars of chilli pickles in a sleepy Midland market square, steaming hot spicy vegetable chunks in batter from the 'Bahji Wagon' that comes regularly to the market in Royal Tunbridge Wells. Farm shops great and small, from a pile of freshly picked fruit in the corner of barn to the world famous Chatsworth Farm Shop, where a team of chefs and bakers create delicious pates and delicatessen foods and venison from the park is sold alongside 120 cheeses. Menus in Michelin-starred restaurants are a glowing testament to the quality of local produce, blackboard menus in a multitude of pubs proclaim regional specialities and vibrant cities and towns are home to restaurants offering cuisines from every corner of the globe.
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