Another Pantry
Another Pantry is a food & recipe platform that champions a seasonal, slow and conscious attitude to food. We aim to celebrate the UK food community through recipes, stories and events, releasing recipes only once every season — four times a year — in an attempt to slow things down and get us thinking about the food that's on our plates and on our screens. We hope to encourage an awareness and curiosity of the people and produce behind the food we eat, to shout about the cookbooks, food projects, newsletters and exciting things happening in the food world, and to support our food industry, whether we’re dining in or out.
Another Pantry founder & food writer Safia Shakarchi is hosting a Middle Eastern Flatbreads workshop at Camp Good Life on Sunday morning, showing you how to make simple two ingredient flatbreads and cook them over the fire. Finish your flatbreads off with your choice of a herby garlic butter or harissa butter and enjoy a mid-morning snack made with regeneratively farmed flour from Wildfarmed.
Drop in anytime between 10am and 1pm.
Meredith Bowles
Meredith Bowles is principle of Mole Architects, and Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Suffolk.
Mole is one of the country's most critically acclaimed practices, whose buildings are "not just green but gorgeous".
The firm have designed many award-winning houses, including Alain de Botton's Living Architecture houses, and Marmalade Lane, a co-housing development for 42 houses.
Katalina Caliendo
Katalina Caliendo's work is influenced by multi-species collaborative world-making processes and inter-woven dynamics in nature.
At Camp Good Life she will be running two great workshops:
Raw Clay Ceremony
”During this 1.5 hour workshop we will burnish an ephemeral cup we create using our hands. This meditative and repetitive process will seal a cup well enough to hold a cup of tea for a duration, long enough to enjoy one, two, three.. intended to be reclaimed after the enjoyment like bhar terracotta cups
Conversations with Clay
”During this 45min workshop we will engage with the haptic properties of clay to invoke dialogues surrounding place and place-making. Finishing with a collaborative arrangement of our creations.”
Wellness
This year, and for the first time at Camp Good Life, we’ll be hosting our wellness area up at Hawarden Old Castle.
These sessions will be on offer throughout the weekend between 9am and 6pm (2pm - 6pm on Friday):
Aromatherapy massage
Sports massage
Deep Tissue massage
Hot Stone massage
Holistic massage
Hopi Candling
Reiki
Japanese and Holistic Facial Massage
Seated Massage
Reflexology
Indian Head massage
(Shiatsu) - dependent on therapist
You’ll be able to book your session at the Wellness Reception.
The Temple of Peace
Come and see the book-lined private study and library of one of the giant figures of the nineteenth century, Prime Minister William Gladstone.
The ‘Temple of Peace’ is in the Castle, which was the former home of the four-time Liberal Prime Minister.
Gladstone’s study, the ‘Temple of Peace’ has remained just as it was when he lived at Hawarden. Packed with books, objects, paintings and papers, the room is part of the Gladstone family home and has very rarely opened for public visits.
The Singing Hills by Ed Brydon
The Singing Hills is a series of portraits and landscapes that portray Welsh descendants in upstate New York and Vermont, as well as their relatives and ancestral home in North Wales.
In the 1800’s and early 1900’s, many Welsh people emigrated to the US to escape poverty and suppression of their identity in order to make a better life overseas.
The American Welsh in these portraits are proud of their heritage, though some are worried that the next generation will lose this identity.
In North Wales, many people spoke of helping forge international links for Wales as it continues to find its path after devolution.
Both groups feel that their connections to each other are important to maintaining traditions and language and seeking out a place for their culture in the world.
We’re thrilled that Ed Brydon will be exhibiting these superb portraits at Camp Good Life in September.
Georgie Hayden
Georgina is a food writer, cook and presenter from North London. She was awarded this year’s Fortnum + Mason ‘Cookery Writer of the Year’ award, and the Guild of Food Writers ‘Recipe Writer of the Year’ in 2020.
Growing up above her grandparents’ Greek Cypriot taverna in Tufnell Park, she developed a love of cooking from the recipes passed down to her. She worked on Jamie Oliver’s food team for 12 years – styling, developing and writing recipes for everything from TV to magazines, campaigns to ads.
She has written 3 books – Stirring Slowly, Taverna and Nistisima, which was released March 2022. Georgina also regularly writes for publications such as Delicious, Waitrose Magazine and The Telegraph and features on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch and BBC’s Saturday Kitchen. She is also a judge for Channel 4’s latest cooking show the ‘Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver’.
Christobel Kent
Christobel Kent was born in London in 1962 and educated at Cambridge.
She has lived variously in Essex, London and Italy.
Her childhood included several years spent living on a Thames sailing barge in Maldon, Essex, with her father, stepmother, three siblings and four step-siblings.
She has had seventeen novels published: the first four being standalone thrillers set in Italy, followed by the six novels in the Sandro Cellini Florentine detective series.
Since then she has written seven psychological thrillers roughly in the ‘domestic noir’ genre, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Loving Husband.
She now lives in both Cambridge and Florence with her husband and five children.
Jill Dawson
Jill Dawson is the award-winning author of eleven novels, all published by Sceptre. She has won prizes for short stories, poetry and fiction and runs a mentoring scheme for new writers, Gold Dust Mentoring.
Her latest novel, The Bewitching, set in 16th century Cambridgeshire, tells the true story of a 9 year old girl who accuses her neighbour of being a witch, with dire results for all.
Jill lives in a eco-house designed by her husband the architect Meredith Bowles.
“The Bewitching is a compulsive and thought-provoking account of guilt and persecution.”
Film: Just Add Water
Just Add Water is a short film by Kristian Coburn, inspired by his new found love of cold water swimming, discovered with a friend last winter in Worthing, West Sussex.
“After my first chilly dip on a rainy Tuesday morning in January I was absolutely hooked and have been swimming in the sea two or three times a week since, sometimes twice in the same day.”
Kristian quickly realised that there is a whole community of swimmers in Worthing who swim in the sea all year round, and through speaking with them and hearing their stories, he was struck by the wide range of reasons people have for doing it, and the different things people get out of it.
That’s what Just Add Water is all about.
The Trailer
We’ve worked with Kristian for a number of years at The Good Life Society, and it is a pleasure to be sharing his passion project.
With a background in filmmaking for commercial, advertising and corporate videos, he runs a small production company called Strickland Coburn Productions Ltd - and has produced two short drama films, too, Ivan Harlow (2016) & White Knuckle (2018).
Just Add Water is part funded by Adur & Worthing Trust Creative Commissions.
Ru Callender
Photo: Andy BloorAs founder of Devon's Green Funeral Company, Ru Callender is the world's first punk undertaker.
His book What Remains? is not only the story of his life and work but also an exploration of our capacity to face death with courage and compassion.
Ru will be in conversation with longtime Caught by the River contributor and regular quiz master Roy Wilkinson.
He was moved to become an undertaker through his experience of bereavement and its aftermath. Ru spent much of his childhood in the hospice where his mother worked, and the caring, humanistic philosophy of the hospice movement is central to his work.
He opened the Green Funeral Company with Claire in 2000, and the company is now among the country’s best-known eco-friendly funeral directors; in 2012 they won Joint Best Funeral Director at the first Good Funeral Awards and were described as ‘The best undertakers of all time, by a country mile’ by Good Funeral Guide author, Charles Cowling. Ru and Claire spoke at TEDx Totnes on Death, grief, ritual and radical funerals.
MADMADMAD
Following their self-released album ‘Proper Music’ in 2019 and radio plays by the likes of Erol Alkan, Gilles Peterson and Ana Matronic, MADMADMAD released ‘More More More’, a freakish bonkers album recorded in their experimental warehouse lab, infused by the band’s alien live party set, oozing dance bass lines, spiky guitars riffs and fizzing drums.
Jeff Barrett describes their music as instrumental and abstract - free jazz psychedelic krautrock wig outs. “They are crazy fun and live they have the same affect on people as say Snapped Ankles and The Comet Is Coming.”
Luke Thompson
Born in Cornwall surrounded by animals (monkeys, parrots, frogs, dogs, bugs, mice, pigs, chickens and whatever else turned up) Luke now finds myself back in Cornwall writing about animals.
In 2016 he co-founded Guillemot Press, a very small publisher of beautiful books, with Sarah Cave.
He is a senior lecturer at Falmouth University, teaching non-fiction, poetry, publishing and collaboration.
Helen Mort
Photo: Emma LedwithHelen Mort is a poet and novelist. Her collection Division Street is published by Chatto & Windus and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Her second collection No Map Could Show Them was shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Literature Award.
She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University.
No Map Could Show Them is her first memoir (Ebury, 2022).
Emily Scott
To put it simply, Emily is passionate about food and it is in her kitchen where she feels most at home. Emily loves nothing more than delighting others through food, bringing friends and family together around the table.
Emily’s passion for the connection between food, a sense of place and storytelling is infectious, intriguing and comforting all at the same time. Her story is one which interweaves the sentimental tales of a childhood in Provence with her grandfather ‘Papa’ collecting strawberries from the fields to the hum of crickets in the warm sunshine, to the beautiful shores of Cornwall and golden sandy beaches.
Experience and memories are translated into ingredients which collectively are heightening into simplistic, rustic dishes which are easily recreated at home.
Emily trained in London and France and her classical training forms the backbone of her cooking style. When Emily was 23 she moved to Cornwall where she successfully ran the Harbour Restaurant in Port Isaac.
She was named best chef in the South West by Food magazine and was listed in the top 100 most influential women in the hospitality industry for two years running.
Emily moved to the beautiful village of St Tudy and transformed the St Tudy Inn to a beautiful restaurant with rooms. She sold the Inn to concentrate on other projects in May 2021.
Emily has been recognised by Michelin since 2016 and appeared on Great British Menu representing the South West on BBC 2 in 2019, during the competition Emily made sure that her ethos of pared down, seasonal cooking came across in her menu.
Emily’s new restaurant opened on the sea wall in the beautiful location of Watergate Bay on May 18th 2021, an opportunity to continue her partnership with Watergate Bay Hotel, although independent from the hotel Emily works in collaborative way to bring the best to the bay.
In May 2021, Emily was also commissioned by the Cabinet Office to create, cook and style a dinner for Royalty and the World Leaders for the G7 summit at the Eden Project. This dinner took place at the Eden Project. This was an extraordinary event seeing Emily being the first woman to cook for the leaders of the western worlds.
Meeting President Biden and the rest of the world leaders was a highlight for Emily. An opportunity that Emily and her team will never forget.
Emily’s debut cookbook Sea & Shore Recipes and Stories from a Kitchen in Cornwall was published on June 10th with Hardie Grant. Emily has appeared on Saturday Kitchen, filmed with Rick Stein and is currently writing her second book.
The Ethicurean
Matthew and Iain Pennington are the owners and chefs at award-winning restaurant, The Ethicurean (Michelin Green Star).
The restaurant, tucked away in a Victorian walled garden, offers views of the Mendip Hills and artisan food reflecting the brothers’ philosophy of eating seasonal, local and sustainable. For Iain and Matthew, taking produce from farm to fork in a matter of hours, is a serious business. The radius for the majority of their food is within 20 miles.
The brothers have learnt a lot about preservation; pickling, curing and fermenting ensure that the restaurant is functional all year around and so that food waste is kept to a minimum.
The Penningtons’ philosophy and cooking skills have earned them many accolades over the years, including winning The Observer’s Best Ethical Restaurant in 2011 and more recently being named in The UK’s Top 100 Restaurants 2017 in The Sunday Times.
Their book, The Ethicurean Cookbook, was published in 2013.
Joe Woodhouse
Joe Woodhouse grew up on farms in Cambridge and Scarborough. In his twenties he trained as a chef and worked in restaurants before embarking on a career as a food stylist and food and travel photographer.
He has been a vegetarian since he was ten years old and has since developed a deep understanding of flavoursome vegetarian cooking that draws its inspiration from seasonality and good ingredients.
He lives in London with his wife and two children, and has just published his first cookbook, Your Daily Veg.
Damian Clisby
Damian's passion for cooking was ignited by his grandfather, a butcher at Smithfield’s, who taught him how to smoke freshly caught salmon on his farm in Co Cork. Damian went on to work in some of the best kitchens in London including a stint as head chef and chef director at Petersham Nurseries (Michelin Green Star), and later opening the wonderful pop-up restaurant, Emile.
If you’ve been to The Good Life Experience in the past, it’s Damian and his team who you’ll probably have seen digging the holes for the pit-cooked lambs whilst others are still shaking off the effects of the night before.
Today, Damian works alongside our teams at Hawarden Estate Farm Shop and The Glynne Arms to create knock-out menus and deliver plates that are among the best in the country.
Xanthe Gladstone
Xanthe is a chef and food sustainability advocate. She is partially self taught but has attended the world renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School, to take their six week sustainable food course. Xanthe’s mission is to educate people of the positive effects that the right food choices can have on ourselves and our environment.
Xanthe is the Director of Food and Food Sustainability for The Good Life Society, Glen Dye Cabins & Cottages, Hawarden Estate Farm Shop, and The Glynne Arms. She curates and develops menus, oversees food and product sourcing, and strives to help these businesses run as sustainably as possible.
Xanthe also runs private catering events in London and North Wales, where she also grows vegetables in a beautiful walled garden and greenhouse.
She co-founded knuckle in 2019 — a sustainable food initiative.
Emma Warren
Photo: Camilla GreenwellEmma Warren has been documenting grassroots music culture for decades.
She is the author of ‘Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre’ (Mojo Top Ten book of 2019), ‘Steam Down: Or How Things Begin’ (an Irish Times read of the year) and ‘Document Your Culture’.
Emma was a founding contributor to Jockey Slut magazine, worked on staff at THE FACE, and spent six years as an editorial mentor at Brixton youth-run Live Mag.
She has a monthly radio show on Worldwide FM and runs her own Sweet Machine publishing.