Simon Wright

Simon Wright has been running places to eat in Wales for over 30 years. Wright’s in Llanarthne is a food store and cafe that has just celebrated a decade of existence. Simon is a former editor of the AA Restaurant Guide, author of a couple of books including Tough Cookies (Profile 2004) and has broadcast about food for BBC Wales and Channel 4. He was the Restaurant Consultant on all the UK and European episodes of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares between 2004 and 2015. His most recent radio series We Can’t Go On Eating Like This has just aired on BBC Radio Wales and is available as a podcast on BBC Sounds and iPlayer. Simon is currently establishing a new charity Cegin Y Bobl with the author and Welsh food historian Carwyn Graves and others to work in schools and the community teaching food literacy through cooking - ceginybobl.co.uk

Gabriele Landi – Crossbread Bakery

I started baking shortly after graduating in Politics. For more than ten years I have been focusing on the use of local grains to bake nutritious and honest bread. The biggest challenge I am facing is how to make healthy food accessible to everyone, and supporting a local network of producers at the same time. I run a microbakery based at Y Felin watermill in St. Dogamels, where I mainly use watermilled British grains.

Ellen (In The Welsh Wind)

After becoming disillusioned with life as a secondary school Geography teacher in the Midlands, Ellen returned to her home town of Cardigan with her partner Alex. After adventures walking around Wales, and setting up a bakery business together, the couple were inspired to found In the Welsh Wind Distillery after a trip to Scotland. The distillery started life in a renovated cow shed in early 2018 and moved to its current premises, the former Gogerddan Arms pub, in 2019. Producing their own multi-award-winning In the Welsh Wind and Eccentric Spirit Co ranges of premium spirits, the distillery also produces spirits for other brands and businesses across the UK and as far afield as Japan. The team are pioneering single malt Welsh whisky, created from barley grown locally to the distillery and malted on site - the only distillery in Wales to do this. The team pride themselves on being an 'open distillery' - visitors are welcome during opening hours, and the team also offer Distillery Tours, Gin Making and Gin Tasting Experiences to the public.

Emma - Y Felin

She is proud to be a second-generation miller. Six years ago, he took over the operation of Y Felin Watermill from his father, Michael Hall. His father had renovated Y Felin in 1979 and successfully ran the mill from 1981 until his son assumed responsibility in 2018. Like his father, he takes pride in sourcing only British grain, as locally as possible, to be milled at Y Felin. Y Felin is a fully water-driven mill, powered entirely by water from their mill pond, using traditional methods that have been in use for centuries. Before becoming a miller, he was a specialist Arrhythmia Cardiac Nurse. He has two children: Henri, who lives in Carmarthen and is married to Elizabeth, and Molly, who lives just outside Cardiff with her partner Jack.

Sophie - Ein Cegin Ni

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