Jersey Royal potatoes are one of the biggest fresh produce brands in the UK food retail sector and are the Island s largest farming export. Paula Thelwell finds out more from The Jersey Royal Company s Mike RenouardTHE first Jersey Royals of the seas.
Accessible via ferry or flight, Jersey has nearly 50 miles of coastline, more sunshine than mainland U.K. and plenty for travelers to do in the Channel Islands.
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Whether boiled and slathered with butter or fried then served with crab mayonnaise, the Jersey Royal is alwys delicious.
As ashamed as I am to admit it, the entire island of Jersey birthplace of Lillie Langtry, home-in-exile of Charles II and Victor Hugo, festival haven and home to more than 100,000 residents can be summed up in three words: cows and potatoes.
Yes, I know, I know; I’m an ill-informed idiot with fodder for brains and nothing but lunch on his mind. However, I really don’t mean to be rude, but rather to offer the highest compliment. For this Channel isle has not only given us a magnificent, world-conquering mooer renowned for the lush richness of its milk but some of the very finest tubers on earth, too.