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About Domini Hogg

Founder of Tried and Supplied, an open platform that helps food service buyers find more sustainable, local produce, and member of the Sustainable Restaurant Association, Domini interviews a wide range of passionate producers and carries out in-depth research into sustainable practices for food and drink providing the full context required to make sustainable decisions and eliminate confusion over conflicting information.

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Inside Raymond Blanc’s vegetable garden

The well-stocked vegetable garden and fruit orchard at Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons hotel, keeps the restaurant about 10%…

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Red Boat Tony on the difference between gelato and ice-cream

I can’t say I’ve ever really thought of Anglesey in Wales as being a must-visit place for ice-cream. But after…

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Meet the farmers at the legendary Cacklebean egg farm

Cacklebean eggs are the stuff of legend. I first heard of them around a year ago when I was visiting…

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Beluga and Kaluga: The curious guide to caviar

From sustainability to whether you should serve it off your own hands, there’s more to caviar than you might think….

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Sustainable food: Progress made and future trends

At the beginning of the year fires were blazing in Australia and President Bolsonaro of Brazil was supporting the commercial…

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From rundown country pub to Sustainable Business of the Year

Ollie Hunter talks about how he turned The Wheatsheaf, Chilton Foliat, a rundown Wiltshire pub, into a thriving and award-winning…

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Chef Tim Bouget on running the UK’s most sustainable restaurant

CafĂ© ODE might sound like an unassuming place, but as a three time winner of the highest Sustainable Restaurant Association…

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How to eat sustainably – advice from a chef

Trained chef and nutritionist, Julie Cleijne from Sustainable Kitchen, joins us to talk about how restaurants can create well-balanced nutritional menus…

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The farmer growing Chinese vegetables and GB-made ‘baijiu’

Farmer Pete Thompson has adapted to the times and taken a very inventive path… Taking the plunge initially into producing…

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How restaurants, pubs and cafes are adapting to Covid-19

With the announcement that all McDonald’s, Nando’s, Costa and Pret branches will close in the UK, coronavirus is hitting the…

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Farming for flavour: Meet the English trout farmer

In a little Wiltshire village with streets clearly made for carts not cars, I found Jack Glendinning, owner of Mere…

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Lassi-based gin? The couple combining Indian and British heritage

Domini Hogg finds out how a couple are combining their Indian and British heritage to create an alternative gin loved…

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The future of the humble potato, with ‘The Potato Shop’

How are potatoes grown, which are the ones to look for? To find out I went to visit The Potato…

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StreetCube: Cooking up a sustainable storm in London

In this episode we speak to Pascal Gerrard, founder of StreetCube, a series of sustainable street food kitchens dotted around…

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Food and drink trends for 2020

As we enter a new year – and a new decade! – it is time for us to look at…

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Elliott Lidstone: From shipping container to sustainable restaurant

Domini Hogg visits chef Elliott Lidstone in a converted shipping container in Bristol’s Wapping Wharf, where he’s set up his…