Author: Steve Matthews

STEVE MATTHEWS INTERVIEWS DEAN THISTLETON Hello again everyone and welcome to another edition of Up Close & Personal for the Renegade Magazine. Today I’ve travelled to get to my guest.  If I could paint the scene of where we are at this moment in time… I sit under clear blue skies, snow-capped mountains and the air is crisp and clear, I feel relaxed and at peace.  Civilisation is someway off in the distance.  Where am I you ask, St Moritz, St Anton in The Alps, the Pyrenees, Banff, Whistler, Aspen? No… Huddersfield!  Not the same ring I guess. As...

STEVE MATTHEWS INTERVIEWS ANDY STACE Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Up Close & Personal. Today sees me travelling to the town of Melton Mowbray. A town of culinary excellence and the home of the famous pork pie and stilton cheese. Last month it was steak pies, this month it’s pork pies. This job is not doing my waistline any favours. The reason I mention these two things is because our guest today has a passion for food, and more importantly, he’s doing something about that passion. When I first met Andy Stace it was actually at...