Dan Birk, cooking at The Devonshire Fell restaurant in Burnsall in the Yorkshire Dales, is an up and coming young chef with a great future ahead of him. His food is elegant and unfussy, stylish and well executed. Dan Birk is definitely one to watch.
We thought we might be staying longer at The Drunken Duck, by default. The night had been cold, and the previous day’s showers had frozen over the lying snow. We checked out and set off down the country lane to the side of the Inn, the car wheels skidding on black ice. I was beginning [...]
It’s the middle of May, and the weather is quite nice, a bit wet, but warmer. I think it’s time to make ice cream, to get the freezer stocked up for summer. Of course, this is Britain, and the North of Britain at that. This may be summer. This ice cream is based on a [...]