Vicki Reeve checks into St Enodoc Hotel in Rock, where she enjoys a nine-course tasting menu at Karrek restaurant. Suffice to say this is one of the most exquisite meals I ve ever had, she declares.
A Cornish campaign to help support local communities and food banks has donated a whopping 160,000 eggs so far. The Shell Out to Help Out campaign was started by Truro-based St-Ewe Free-range Eggs and has seen an outpouring of support from the local community. For each tray sold at their current reduced price of £3, the company are donating one carton of eggs to local food banks across Cornwall. With the current Covid-19 pandemic exacerbating the growing issue of food poverty in Cornwall, Shell Out to Help Out has provided some welcome relief to families suffering from food-insecurity. Nikki Owen, head of marketing at St Ewe, said: We started the Shell Out to Help Out campaign because 52% of our business is in food services and hospitality, and when the third lockdown came along that business disappeared overnight, and you can t furlough a hen.
Eggs being bought at Cafe Chaos in Truro An egg producer based on the Roseland Peninsula is popping up at locations throughout Cornwall to sell trays of their free-range eggs to local communities - and supporting Cornwall s food banks as it does so. For each tray of St Ewe Free Range Eggs sold at their current reduced price, the producer is donating one carton of eggs to food banks across the county to try and help ease growing food poverty that s being exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Like many small businesses, St Ewe has seen more than half of its business drop off due to the pandemic, with half of customers being in the hospitality sector.