The Fudges believe a biscuit should taste wonderful and so butter is what they choose to use, just as they use real lemon zest in their lemon biscuits. In fact all the biscuits in their large arsenal are made from fine ingredients carefully sourced. The biscuits themselves are hand crafted, shaped and baked using methods not much different from those used fifty years ago.

Chef and ‘Food Archaeologist’ Alan Coxon has recently launched his Historic Food range. This range of products will enable you to explore reproductions of some of the flavours and ingredients that once may have adorned tables of Mediaeval Knights, mighty Roman Emperors, and Ancient Greek temples with his Historic Vinaigre and Historic Pickles and Chutneys ranges. We can recomment all three wholeheartedly.

At around £7.99 for a 750ml bottle Hillfarm Virgin Rapeseed Oil is reasonably priced against the better olive oils and is more versatile. And while I am still not happy at the yellowfication of our once green and pleasant land, I can at least say this particular Rape product makes some of it well worthwhile.

Having never been a fan of watermelon, the fruit had always seemed rather lacking in body and flavour; I was pleasantly surprised by Rubicon’s Watermelon juice, their latest product.

Due to go on sale in Tesco stores from September, Norseland’s blended Wensleydale with Sour Cherry & Plum sounds an odd combination of flavours, but having tasted it, the crumbliness of the Wensleydale and its mild flavour does work with the fruits, and makes for a nice mouthful.

As a simple, effective way of feeding up to eight people, the classy Emile Henry Tagine is the tops. Like a good casserole or stew there’s pretty much nothing that can go wrong with a tagine cooking session, but it scores high marks for real wow factor and ia magical way with tenderising meat. With it we brought some North African sunshine to a somewhat overcast South London last weekend.

For those with food intolerance allergen-free foods are an essential. But there are also growing numbers of people who put health and wellness at the top of their agenda and for whom freefrom foods are a lifestyle choice. That’s why a new range called It’s A Free World! will have such a warm welcome across such a broad group of food savvy consumers.

Our favourite butchers in London, David House and Justin Preston of Allens of Mayfair, are turning their expert gaze onto Simply Real Sausages, one of the finest sausage makers in London for the past twenty years. Simply Real Sausages are now available nationwide for the first time through their brand new website.

I once got searched at Madrid airport for guns, drugs, bombs, and knives etc, all the normal things that a middle-aged, clean shaven respectably dressed, Western European man is suspected of carrying, and the coppers lifted out of my onboard bag a 2kg bowling ball of cheese. ‘Oh dear, I’m in trouble now,’ I thought, but they simply put it to one side while they cheerfully stuck needles through my toothpaste tube. I felt like pointing out that a 2kg cheese would be a far better hiding place for a bomb or gun, but thought better of it.

Canned tuna is a UK food cupboard staple, bought by nearly 90% of households. As the second biggest consumer in the world, we can have a massive impact on improving the sustainability of the fishing that fills the cans. So, if you are conscious about the ecological issues surrounding the tuna industry, why not get along and try some of the AAFA product and support their efforts to ensure sustainability of tuna stocks for future generations.