Tower and Town, March 2017

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Editorial:: If Food Be The Music Of Love, Eat On

My apologies to The Bard for hijacking and corrupting his beautiful verse, but I write this at the approach of Valentine's Day when so much of the language of love seems to revolve around food that it seems not entirely inappropriate to devote some of the space in this month's magazine to the joy that food brings, both the eating of it and the preparing of it.

Marlborough has become something of a foodie paradise as both in and around the town we are able to experience some delightfully enjoyable eating. Whether it is grazing the coffee shops - someone recently calculated that there were over 30 different places in town where you could get a cup of coffee - snacking a quick lunch, or indulging in a fine dining dinner, we are somewhat spoilt for choice. However very often when we eat out our thoughts do not go much further than the food on the plate in front of us, so this month I have invited the owners of three of our relatively small and independent eateries to enable us to get behind the plate. People who make a living out of cooking and washing up for others usually do so out of a passion for food, so here are the stories of the food journey three of those people have taken, together with a recipe from each of them for the sort of food that makes them that passionate. I hope - I'm sure! - they will get your taste buds going.

In addition we have some follow-up stories to the information researched by Andrew Ross in last month's magazine about those from Marlborough who lost their lives 100 years ago in the First World War, and an introduction to a new neighbour, Emma Lavelle, who has moved into the Bonita Racing Stables in Ogbourne Maisey, where Peter Makin, Bob Turnell and Sir Gordon Richards trained.

David Du Croz