It’s spring time and we’re in love…. Sand Hutton asparagus grown by Rich and Ronnie Morritt near York is something we look forward to for ten months of the year and it never fails to disappoint. But because of the lockdown we’ve had to ration ourselves to getting hold of it just once a week when one of us ventures out for food supplies – pretty much all of which, by the way, comes from producers local to us. We’re always on the lookout for new ways to serve this green goddess

This really is a match made in heaven and is one of the best ways we know to enjoy a spring risotto with fabulous Yorkshire ingredients. We’ve been big fans of Staal Smokehouse near Beverley since we began our Yorkshire food-finding venture 8 years ago. Husband and wife team Justin and Georgina Staal have created award-winning products that will do justice to the best tables in the land. What we love about them is their use of local fish and meat where possible, plus their co

Yorkshire butcher Paul Potts is a true independent. All of the meat for his business, Food 2 Remember in the lovely Talbot Yard in Malton, is locally sourced, most of it coming from within 10 miles of his shop. And where it doesn’t, he knows exactly where it’s come from and how the animals have been reared. It might be the beginning of the Easter weekend but he’s not selling the habitual leg of lamb – rather, he’s selling hogget which is from beasts between one and two years