“Roll on October. It’s the ideal time to start brewing again after the heat of summer. The hop harvest is gathered in, the apples are ripe for cider-making, the summer fruits have been stored, and there’ll soon be sloes to pick after the first frosts for sloe gin. But best of all, the room temperature at home will have dropped to around 18-20°...just the perfect temperature to get brewing”  – Doug Rouxel 

Food related quotes from Miss Piggy.

Stand anywhere outside in May and you can almost hear green shoots growing. Leaves are unfolding and the early flowers bursting from their buds. Trees and hedgerows are suddenly green again and gardens come to life. No wonder May was always the 'merry month', praised for both its beauty and for new leaves to relieve the monotony of winter diets.

Kent is surrounded on all sides by sea and from the sea comes a rich harvest of seafood that has been gathered for thousands of years. The county has a variety of coastlines, from wide mudflats to the famous chalk cliffs, and each type of coast provides its own particular type of shellfish.

Whitstable has always been the centre of the oyster fishing industry.