After 18 years of cooking Directors Lunches for a firm in the City of London, rationalisation had left her bereft of a permanent job. A subsequent spell as a freelance cook for Lumley’s and the up and coming caterers Jalapeño took her to cook in some of the grandest houses in the country, introduced her to new clientele and confirmed her desire to move out of the metropolis and to build up her own business based on a developing circle of contacts and recommendations. Together with Richard who was then renting an apartment in the former Mendip Hospital near Wells, Lorna began the search for her new home in the country...