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Posted on 06.09.11
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A wet day – the apprentices take on the Two Peaks Challenge…

On Thursday 25th August, the apprentices took on Rough Tor and Brown Willy and successfully completed the Bodmin Moor Two Peaks Challenge! The day started out dry and the apprentices were optimistic. They had to navigate to a number of points along the route and the first was an ancient stone circle just forward of [...]

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Posted on 30.08.11
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A sourcing trip to Newhouse Farm…

On Wednesday the 24th of August, our apprentices once again left the kitchen to visit Newhouse Farm in the morning, a great example of organic farming, then onto Philip Warren Butchers, Launceston, in the afternoon. Where better place to learn about the food they’re preparing and the processes involved before the produce makes it to [...]

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Posted on 22.08.11
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The Fifteen Apprentices take on the Overnight Woodland Challenge…

First off, apologies for the blurry pictures. It was the wilderness after all! At 10am the apprentices arrived at Hessaford Farm woods in the wilds of North Cornwall where they were camping for the night. The woods are literally in the middle of nowhere with the nearest road over a mile away! The woodland camp [...]

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Posted on 18.08.11
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The return of the Fifteen Farmer’s Market…

On Saturday 1st October, the Fifteen Cornwall farmer’s market will once again return to Watergate Bay and there is heaps for you to get involved with. Expect to find everything on the shopping list such as fresh veg, Cornish fish, fresh local meat and artisan cheeses as we’ve got a splendid line up of local [...]

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Posted on 04.08.11
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Fifteen Cornwall pops up at Port Eliot Festival…

…And what a fantastic few days we had there! Between the 21st and the 25th of July, head chef Andy Appleton and the Fifteen Cornwall apprentices headed to St German’s to cook up a feast at the festival. In true Fifteen style, the guys wore bright fuchsia pink Hunter wellies and the tent set up [...]

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Posted on 02.08.11
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Mastering the art of Wine

Many of you who have visited the restaurant will know Gordy our lovely sommelier but what you might not know is that he is studying to become a Master of Wine. There are currently only 289 Masters of Wine in the whole world so if successful, he will be joining a very elite collection of [...]

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Posted on 15.07.11
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What a lovely day for a bike ride

On 7 July, our latest cohort of apprentices set off on the first activity of the Summer Team Challenge with random tandem cycling on the Camel Trail. They set off from Wadebridge in pairs, swopping partners after each leg to make sure that everyone could have a go. When they reached Padstow, it was off to Rick Steins for [...]

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Posted on 19.11.10
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I did it!

Well it’s all done!!! After the months of training and racing this year, it all came down to the last 26.2 miles on the other side of the Atlantic in the Big Apple. I arrived in New York on the Friday evening before the race feeling good, if a little tired. However, I was well [...]

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Posted on 26.10.10
Filed under: Events

Gordon talks at Cornwall Wine Society event

Hello again, I was recently invited to lead a tasting for the Cornwall Wine Society at the Hall for Cornwall. I was really pleased to have been invited and to have a chance to show eight wines that I’m really keen on. I was also able to talk about what we do here at Fifteen [...]

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Oli’s update: complex carbs are important part of diet

Hi again all Last time in my healthy eating update, I talked about water, the most important thing in life… This time, carbohydrates… Over the last decade or so, ‘carbs’ have received some bad press with regards to weight loss from a number of ‘low’ or ‘zero’ carb diets . Let’s start with the term, [...]