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Mary Griffin

Mary is a feature writer specialising in food and drink for the Coventry Telegraph

Birmingham food festival axed - and put online
Economic Development
Birmingham’s annual food festival has been axed in favour of a new website marketing the city as a tourist destination for foodies.
Birmingham’s business district transforms into foodie heaven
Retail & Consumer
Birmingham’s business district is proving it has more to offer than pinstripes and profit margins. Mary Griffin salivates over the Colmore Business District Food Festival.
Future looks bright for Birmingham's artisan scene
Retail & Consumer
Branded as Birmingham’s first social media food fair, it promised the city’s most outspoken food fans an array of top local produce. Mary Griffin sampled the new Future Foodies event.
Coventry households team up to run their own farm
Retail & Consumer
More of us want fresh local produce but few of us have the time or space to grow it. Mary Griffin looks at a project in Coventry where 60 households have teamed up to run their own farm.
Birmingham's secret society offers foodies a taste of the unknown
Retail & Consumer
Fancy a dining experience with a difference? Mary Griffin meets 200 Brummies who did at Birmingham’s Secret Dining Society.
Warwickshire Slow Food group promotes the virtues of locally-produced food
Retail & Consumer
The Slow Food movement has inspired a Warwickshire couple to set up a deli at their home. Mary Griffin meets them.
Gardeners’ World Live boosts Birmingham’s grow-it yourself revolution
Retail & Consumer
This year’s Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC promises to be one of the summer’s best days out.
Vandals wreak havoc at Tolkein beauty spot
JRR Tolkien
Bronze Age mound that inspired the author suffers major damage
Christian Aid Week: Malawi's painful road to realising potential
Retail & Consumer
Once labelled the bread basket of southern Africa, Malawi was the continent's agricultural success story.
Michelin starred chef Adam Stokes relishes establishing himself in Birmingham.
Retail & Consumer
WITHIN a week of opening, an AA inspector had already walked through the doors of Adam's Restaurant in Bennett's Hill.
TV chefs 'to blame' for Britain's obesity crisis
Economic Development
University researchers are claiming celebrity chefs could be a cause of Britain’s obesity epidemic after finding nine out of ten recipes fall foul of healthy eating guidelines.
Study finds celebrity chefs are feeding Britain's obesity epidemic
Economic Development
University researchers are claiming celebrity chefs could be a cause of Britain’s obesity epidemic after finding nine out of ten recipes fall foul of healthy eating guidelines.
Great tastes straight from Birmingham's streets
Retail & Consumer
Birmingham's next generation of chefs are turning their backs on restaurants to run burger vans and snack shacks, writes Mary Griffin.
Birmingham draws up plans to bid for £10m cycling city grant
Economic Development
Plans to revolutionise Birmingham’s biking infrastructure have been revealed to city cyclists.
War on veggie bores at the Edible Garden Show
Retail & Consumer
Forget carrots and potatoes, gardeners could sample more exotic plants, says celebrity botanist James Wong.
Lambing season hits Nethermorton Farm in Moreton Morrell
Retail & Consumer
New lambs are the surest sign that spring has almost sprung.
Midland firm Grenade (º£½ÇÊÓƵ) does Army deal for fat-fighting pills
Economic Development
A Midland firm is set to play a major role in helping US Army soldiers branded ‘too fat to fight’ to shift the excess pounds.
Neighbours join forces to transform community into a patchwork of edible gardens
Retail & Consumer
Neighbours have joined forces to transform their urban community into a patchwork of edible gardens.
Birmingham's first whisky festival to be held in Digbeth
Economic Development
Birmingham is to host its first whisky festival with more than 100 bottles from around the world, including rare and vintage labels.
Stargazing is seeing a boom in popularity
Retail & Consumer
Millions were expected to watch the third annual instalment of the BBC's Stargazing Live this week.
Footpaths are in danger due to cutbacks
Retail & Consumer
Footpaths are in danger of falling into disrepair following council cutbacks.
Warwickshire nursery ordered to burn ash trees struck by dieback disease
Economic Development
A firm has been told to burn 100 trees as the region was hit by one of its first cases of ash dieback disease.
Ramblers campaign to save Warwickshire's footpaths
Economic Development
The Ramblers’ Association has launched a campaign on behalf of nine million of us who go walking for recreation at least once a month, saying the º£½ÇÊÓƵ’s network of footpaths is in danger of falling into disrepair.
Bompas and Parr latest installation set to a-maze
Retail & Consumer
Known for their weird and wacky installations, Harry Parr of artistic duo Bompas and Parr tells Mary Griffin about their nose for the unusual.