When Categorical visited the mouth-watering Style of London competition, one trade supply jokily warned that Jeremy Clarkson “had higher watch his again” as a serious competitor was edging in on his patch, providing high-quality domestically farmed produce too. Nonetheless, a spokesperson for Clawson Farms, a model title which even sounds much like Clarkson’s Farm, poured chilly water on any claims of a feud, revealing that they’re really collaborators.
The truth is, Jeremy has even began stocking one of many model’s cheeses in his Diddly Squat farm store not too long ago – its well-known Rutland Purple, which is produced in Melton Mowbray with the assistance of a centuries-old recipe. The spokesperson confirmed: “We don’t contemplate Jeremy Clarkson’s model to be a rival. As a co-operative dairy owned by round 30 native farmers, we expect that the sunshine that he’s shining on British farming is an effective factor.” She continued: “So far as we all know he doesn’t make cheese, however one in every of our crew visited his farm store not too long ago and located that it shares our Rutland Purple.
“It is a historically made artisan Purple Leicester which gained one of the best British territorial cheese final 12 months, so we’re fairly pleased with that.”
She added: “What we’ve got in frequent with Jeremy Clarkson is our use of native components (milk in our case); having sturdy roots in our area people and doing issues with craft and fervour.
“We’ve been making award successful cheese for over 100 years. We’re the most important of 4 remaining Stilton makers within the nation and see ourselves as custodians of this historic British cheese.
“All of the milk for making our Stilton comes from our farms that are situated inside 30 miles of the dairy. Like Champagne, Stilton has a PDO, and must be made with milk from Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire and observe strict guidelines about how it’s made.”
Jeremy has chosen to give attention to creating beer, along with his Hawkstone model remaining an enormous hit, and the native produce served up in his Burford pub The Farmer’s Canine, however he is additionally turned to the award-winning Clawson Farm to assist him present followers with cheese as nicely.
We will affirm that each one the ground-breaking flavours from the farm hit the spot, with the dairy being one in every of only some on the earth who’re legally allowed to supply Stilton – they usually typically mix it with flavoursome tropical mangos and gingers for the last word style accent.
The Wizard’s Hearth cheese is made with scorching Scotch Bonnet chilli relish and purple peppers for a tastebud tingling spicy flavour, whereas one other scrumptious one is Truffle Seeker, mixing floral honey with a white truffle and Porcini mushroom sauce.
Nonetheless, to date, it is simply the Rutland Purple which is considered out there at Diddly Squat – a energetic Purple Leicester which has been matured for six months earlier than making its method onto cabinets.
