yorkshire
Apparently Cornish Pasties Aren’t Actually From Cornwall
In a recent article for the food studies journal Petits Propos Culinaires, Yorkshire-based food historian Peter Brears claims that Cornish pasties originate from London.
Space Beer Doesn’t Taste as Great as You Thought It Would
Last month, Yorkshire-based John Smith’s became the first brewery to send beer into space—with questionable results.
British Dairy Farmers Are Staging Cow-Led Supermarket Protests
Dairy farmers have taken to supermarkets across the UK in protest of the milk price cuts putting many out of business. These “trolley dashes” see farmers clear shelves of milk, with some even bringing cows along.
Cry-Baby of the Week: A Guy Called the Cops Because a Cat Ate His Bacon
Also this week: A man was banned from Starbucks for confronting people who were illegally parking in the store's handicapped parking space.
Yorkshire Is Crazy About This 100-Year-Old Relish
Concocted using a secret 19th century recipe and almost impossible to buy outside of Yorkshire, Henderson’s Relish is a condiment that inspires cult-like devotion in the north of England.
How a Pig Farmer Taught Me to Respect Her Pork
Commercial slaughterhouses aren’t that keen on wafty ex-vegetarian writers coming down to see kill their pigs, but Anna Longthorp—one of Yorkshire's few female pig farmers—invited me to see everything, from birth to bacon.
The Sweetest Rhubarb Is Forced Inside a Pitch-Dark Shed
In West Yorkshire, "forcing" rhubarb allows the plant to develop outside before it is dug up and placed in a lightless building for the later stages of its life, where it grows so rapidly that you can hear it squeak and pop.
Dairy Farmers Are Paying the True Price for the UK's Cheap Milk
British shoppers are happy to pick up a pint of milk for just half a pound, but out in The Yorkshire Dales, nearly half of dairy farmers have left the industry in the past ten years.
How Marmozets' Becca McIntyre is Shaking Up British Rock's Gender Imbalance
If Becca McIntyre of Marmozets keeps refusing to give a shit, she might finally end the big old cock fest.
MUNCHIES Guide to the North of England - Episode 3
Ben's gastronomic tour of the North takes him to Yorkshire, where he embraces the meaning of "graft," learns the importance of a chip butty, and finds out how to make a pork pie.