The Devon Food Book by Carol Trewin and Adam Woolfitt

Carol's final work: The Devon Food Book a 352 page hardback, is now available on this site and in bookshops.

The Devon Food Book will also be widely available during the Exeter Food Festival at Northernhay Gardens, 9-11th April 2010.

Sadly Carol died 14th October 2009 after a three-year battle with leukaemia. There have been many tributes to Carol's courageous nature, both as a writer and champion of the wests finest foods.

Click here to visit Carol Trewin's tribute page..

Linking the Landscape to the Food on Your Plate.

Devon produces some of the best food in Britain, from meat to fish and shellfish, cheese, clotted cream and vegetables, not to mention top class beers, cider and wines. The Devon Food Book explores the stories of some of the people behind this cornucopia of produce. Along with the history of farming, fishing and food production the book paints a fascinating picture of how Devon’s food culture and landscape have evolved together. The story is completed by recipes from some of the county’s most celebrated chefs, featuring these products.

Carol Trewin and Adam Woolfitt have already collaborated on two books, 'Gourmet Cornwall' and 'Cornish Fishing and Seafood'. Both books won the Gourmand World Cook Book Award for Best Local Cook Book in 2005 and 2006 respectively.

Click here to visit The Devon Food Book official Web site..

Carol Trewin
- has worked as the Food Editor of the Western Morning News and has written on food, farming and the countryside for many publications, including Inside Cornwall, Food Illustrated, the Field, British Farmer and Grower. Before returning to the South West she was editor of Radio 4’s Farming Today, and also worked for BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme, Woman’s Hour and the BBC World Service. Other radio programmes include On Your farm, Costing the Earth, Walston Goes Walkabout and Over the Counter. From 1997 – 2002 she was Farming Editor of the Western Morning News and later ran a £3 million food project for Taste of the West in Cornwall. In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies. From 2005 she has also been editorial consultant for Taste Cornwall Magazine, published twice a year.

Adam Woolfitt
- has been a photographer all his life, and has contributed to many titles such as GEO, Newsweek, Gourmet, Travel and Leisure, the Weekend Telegraph and Sunday Times Magazines. From 1967 to 1994 he contributed more than 25 assignments to National Geographic and NGS Books Division. He writes on digital technology for the British Journal of Photography, Image Magazine and Ag Magazine, and is a past Chairman of the Association of Photographers. He was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photographers in 2002 and won his associateship of the Royal Photographic Society while still a student at Guildford College in 1959.

"This book is a great opportunity to showcase the depth and richness of the outstanding food and drink that we have here in Devon.  A great way of finding out more about the chefs, producers and other businesses that have made the county's food culture one of the best in England." 

            Michael Caines, Executive Chef, Gidleigh Park, Chagford

Flagon Press Spring 2010 - ISBN 978-0-9557073-9-1