Rising Star
Austere times breed entrepreneurship. Artisan Ben Keane was made redundant before training as a patissier and starting up his own product range trading as Yeast Bakery in East London. The Yeast line is small but perfectly formed (limited to just plain, almond and chocolate croissants). Made with Shipton Mill flour and French AOC Poitou-Charentes butter, these are the best pastries you’ll taste this side of the Channel:
yeastbakery.com
Scandilicious
The craze for all things Scandinavian continues — the National Gallery is even running an exhibition,
‘Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection’ (22 June until 18 September).
So hail a fine new Nordic offering from Signe Johansen with Secrets of Scandinavian Cooking… Scandilicious (Saltyard Books, £20). Recipes to drool over include wholesome oatmeal bread, Finnish blueberry tart and sour cherry soup: signejohansen.com
Picnic Pig
One of our favourite creators of British charcuterie, the Bath Pig Company, has launched a spicy chorizo in a picnic-friendly 70g ‘snack pack’ (thebathpig.com).
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