Watch: Our Winter Chefs’ Residency with Max La Manna at Glen Dye.
Watch: Our Winter Chefs’ Residency with Ixta Belfrage at Glen Dye.
Spotting an Opportunity to Turn Waste into Worth.
So, You’ve Got a Good Idea and You Want to Start a Business?
Holly Tucker on the Importance of Independent Shopping.
6 Chefs Answer: What’s Your Most Used Kitchen Item?
Gill Meller’s Thoughts on Cooking Over Fire.
Lessons from a Journeyman.
100 Dog Breeds and Their Terrific Traits.
Carrot, Parsnip and Thyme Soup.
The secret to this is having a really delicious rich vegetable stock. This will give the soup a deep textured flavour. The ideal is to make your own, but if you can’t, be sure to choose a good quality one. Carrots and parsnips go beautifully together as roast vegetables and they work equally well as complimentary flavours in this soup.
This serves four, but you can double up the quantities and freeze the rest.
Charlie Recommends… November 2021.
Ten Things You Need To Make Winter Good.
Our thoughts this winter, across our businesses, are focused on getting our guests and customers outdoors. I believe that winter is every bit as good as summer and that our relationship with the colder and darker months has become weirdly soured.
Autumn and winter last for about half the year, so we might as well try to make the best of them.
So here’s a short piece on my favourite kit -indoor and outdoor- for winter.
A Creative Experiment in Passionate Non-Attachment.
Five Books I Loved That I Think You’ll Love Too.
My Weekend Managing The Some Good Ideas Stage At Camp Good Life.
The Some Good Ideas stage at Camp Good Life was a melting pot of, well, good ideas, and it was my job all weekend to manage the stage.
It’s a great job. I have done it for a number of years now and I think I am starting to get the hang of it - I'd call myself a semi-professional at this point on the basis that there is still about half I don’t know.
The 10 Best Things About Camp Good Life.
The Folklore and Mythology of the Rowan Tree
Caroline’s Glen Dye Wild Venison Casserole.
Charlie Recommends… August 2021.
Three Talks Not To Miss at Camp Good Life (Autumn).
Ideas are at the root of what we do here at The Good Life Society. and each year writers, thinkers, movers and shakers come along to share theirs.
From Michael Morpurgo to Michael Rosen and Helen Sharman to Dr John Cooper-Clarke (all previous Good Life Experience speakers) we’ve long punched above our weight when it comes to inspirational speakers and ideas.
This year, at Camp Good Life (Autumn), will be no different.