Welcome to the Cotswold Explorer! A weekly show about food, drink, history and cookery, presented by Robin Shuckburgh, produced by Arrow Productions.
We’ll be exploring anything from the village used as ‘Downton’ – Bampton all the way to the Dancing Trousers Cookery School cooking up something delicious.
Latest Video
How to Make Chocolate Fondant
This week in the Dancing Trousers kitchen Alexis Thompson teaches us how to make a wonderful chocolate fondant, perfect as a desert after any meal, great for those with a sweet tooth. Watch below: The recipe is as follows: Ingredients 50g softened unsalted...
Bampton and Downton
Exploring Bampton: the Village used as ‘Downton’ in ‘Downton Abbey’ – the Grammar School
Another episode of Exploring Bampton is finally here, and in this third episode we're exploring the old Bampton Grammar School, now used as the Bampton Library and Archive. The roof is being completely restored. Robin takes us through the history of the building, how...
Food
The White House Pub and Restaurant in Bladon, Oxfordshire
The White House Pub and Restaurant in Bladon, near Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire is a wonderful local pub that offers a great variety of food and drink, in the very village Winston Churchill lived in. We spoke to the head chef Kevin who gave some great advice on...
Drink
The Gin Pantry – The Plough in Clanfield
We made a visit to the Plough in Clanfield near Bampton, to look at the wonderful gin pantry and a selection of over four hundred gins. Robin takes us through the history of gin, how it is made and how it came to be such a popular drink in today's age. Robin does...
Cookery
How to Make Chocolate Fondant
This week in the Dancing Trousers kitchen Alexis Thompson teaches us how to make a wonderful chocolate fondant, perfect as a desert after any meal, great for those with a sweet tooth. Watch below: The recipe is as follows: Ingredients 50g softened unsalted...
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