Annie Manson lives and works in Vejer de la Frontera, Spain, where she runs bespoke cookery classes in the heart of this historic Andalucian whitewashed village. Along with a sprinkling of sherry, topped up with fabulous Spanish wines, she ensures guests will head home inspired to bring Andalucian sunshine into their kitchens. Find out more at www.anniebsspanishkitchen.com

Pig farmer and restaurant in perfect harmony. Outside Sheffield Max Freeman raises rare-breed pigs for The Milestone restaurant in Sheffield to serve to their customers. They’re happy, the pigs are happy and Nick Harman has a smile on his face too as he sees how teaming up like this has made this city restaurant an award-winner

In the company of BBC’s Olly Smith, Douglas Blyde travels to Tuscany to see how a quartet of its leading wine producers are thoughtfully modernising…

The iconic London gin is the only one to be actually still made in London, and Beefeater is the favoured gin of the new, hip, mixologists. Not bad for a spirit once the subject of 18th century vilification. At the Beefeater Distillery in South London, we meet Master Distiller Desmond Payne and he takes us through the process and into the bar!

What can you get for fifteen pounds in London Town? Half a ticket to the back row of a West End show? One and a quarter cocktails in a chi-chi Soho bar? Well how about dinner, a drink, dessert and ready-made date banter? Thomas Henry throws up his pizza.

Coinciding with the launch of the world’s largest passenger ship, Douglas Blyde boards one of the most bijou – the ‘Hebridean Princess’ – for an afternoon of tea and talks.

There is, as the adage goes, no such thing as a free lunch. Owing to the intensity and expectation of organisers, Douglas Blyde found a recent meal at Borough Market’s British restaurant, ‘Roast’ occasionally hard to digest.

To Mark Hix’s new restaurant in Soho where in the big basement a tasting of Irish Cheese is taking place. Now I am second only to Wallace in my love of the stuff, although Wallace’s Wensleydale is not my favourite by any means. Ireland certainly has the grass for the cows and goats required, but can it cut the cheese? Let’s find out.

Katie Caldesi is peeling an orange. She slices off the skin all around, cuts between a segment and without pausing turns the knife so that she comes back the other way. The segment drops off neatly and the membrane between is left still attached to the fruit. By the time she finishes the remaining orange looks like a Rolodex.

Sabrina Ghayour went to Paris and all we got was this lousy T-Shirt. Well actually she went and got a bit angry actually. Here she dishes le dirt on some bad, some good and some brilliant places to eat in the City that’s just an hour or two away.