Accompaniments heroes

Simon Jackson set up Water’s Edge Bakehouse in October 2020; a micro bakery run out of his own kitchen. He learned his craft having worked for several years for a couple of award winning local bakeries.

An incredibly talented baker, Simon bakes wild sourdough bread every week for The Cheese Wheel. In addition, he usually also bakes a Cheese Wheel exclusive using ingredients sourced through The Cheese Wheel.

To date our customers have enjoyed Mrs Kirkham’s Smoked Lancashire Cheese bread, Ticklemore Goats cheese and roasted red pepper focaccia and Big Stone Beer bread. The Cheese Wheel is proud to support local artisan producers.

The Jam Shack is based in Glossop, Derbyshire and run by Welsh born, Paula Quiney. With a love of great tasting food and facing redundancy, Paula turned the jam making skills she had learned as a little girl helping her nan in the kitchen into a business.

Using mainly foraged produce (last time I looked Seville oranges don’t grow in Glossop!), Paula makes preserves and chutneys that pack a punch when it comes to flavour.

The Cheese Wheel are proud to be supporting another local artisan producer and are super excited about working with Paula to develop an exclusive Cheese Wheel chutney to go with cheese. Watch this space…..

The Jam Shack (Facebook)

Great tasting chocolate, ethically sourced cocoa and palm oil free – it’s why we love it at The Cheese Wheel.

Based in York (the home of chocolate), Choc Affair put people first in every aspect of their business. They work with farmers not farms, they support education programmes at home and abroad, and their chocolate is hand-made by people not by machines.

Oh and did we mention that their dark chocolate range is suitable for vegans!

Choc Affair website

Great tasting crisps that actually taste of potato was our reaction when we first tasted Corkers Crisps five years ago.

Willow Farm in the heart of the Cambridgeshire Fens is made up of black peaty soil, rich in nutrients. It is the perfect soil for growing potatoes, which have a unique oaky taste. The crisp factory was sited on the farm.

They grow, cook and package on the farm, resulting in low food miles, but the freshest tasting crispiest crisps!

Corkers Crisps website

An essential part of any cheese board and often overlooked.

Made in Ashbourne, Derbyshire exclusively for The Fine Cheese Company, these crackers are made by people who understand cheese. The flavours in the crackers are subtle and chosen to complement artisan cheese rather than overwhelm it. Adding flavours such as fig or walnut to a cracker that partners a specific cheese makes enjoying cheese a whole new taste adventure.

Their toast for cheese range, crammed full of fruit, seeds and nuts and twice baked to form a perfectly crisp cracker are particularly delicious.

The Froggatt family has farmed in Staffordshire for four generations, caring for the land through sustainable farming. Their delicious potato crisps are hand cooked, flavoured, bagged and boxed on the farm in Staffordshire. Made from potatoes grown on the farm and cooked in rapeseed oil, grown on the farm. Crisps that taste of potato, who’d have thought it?