Guy Grieve hand dives for scallops of the island of Mull
Last year delicious. launched the Produce Awards to find the country’s best artisanal food producers. Earlier this month deputy editor Susan Low and I set out to meet some of the winners from Scotland and northern England. Here’s a behind-the-scenes glimpse of our foray. Look out for the profiles of the winners in upcoming issues of the Delicious. magazine.
Here’s my diary of the trip which is also published on the Delicious. website
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In March last year I was asked by Delicious. to spend a day with the best selling author James Rebanks on his farm in Matterdale, Cumbria. I worked with deputy editor, Susan Low who was tasked with interviewing James about his life as a farmer and his recently published book The Shepherd's Life while I photographed James at work with his beautiful Herdwick sheep. It was a bitterly cold day up on the fells with snow lying on the surrounding hills.
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The idea is inspired by Alastair Hendy's beautiful Christmas Book which tells the story of a baker who is down on his luck and struggling to make his business work.
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“Slow everything down when you are taking portraits” were the words that ran through my mind as I tried to keep my nerve during the first few minutes of photographing artisan baker Jez Belsten, in the tight confines his Edward Street Bakery, a converted two up two down terraced house in the heart of Saltaire village, a World Heritage Site, on the outskirts of Bradford.
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Lofoten is an archipelago off the north west coast of Norway, just above the arctic circle. The islands are warmed by the Gulf stream which makes them a climatic anomaly for this latitude. The Gulf stream means the warm sea is rich in nutrients which attracts migrant cod in the winter months. Since the time of the Vikings these islands have been at the heart of Europe's fishing industry.
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