A few weeks ago I was invited to be a judge at this year’s Great Taste Awards and on Friday I left the shop for the first time and travelled down to London for the tasting. I was very pleased to be allocated ice cream with nuts, fruit cake with alcohol and plain chocolate, a little dubious about bacon and hot chutney and not terribly keen on meat based pies. But it was the pies, which really surprised me. One was amazing! Not like any pie I had seen or eaten before and totally delicious. I now need to track it down, maybe not to stock in the shop, but certainly to eat myself.
