Food made for active lives.
Table & Trail is about good food, fresh air, and the pleasure of sharing both. Wholesome, flavour-packed recipes for busy families, active lives and days best spent outside.
Recipes · Stories · Adventures
Hi, I’m Ben!
I’m a photographer, father of three, lifelong lover of the outdoors and enthusiastic feeder of hungry people.
Table & Trail grew out of the way we live here in southwest France: cooking for family and friends, getting outside whenever we can, and discovering that some of the best meals are the ones waiting at the end of a day well spent.
I’ve spent years running, riding, travelling and photographing people and places around the world. Food has always been woven through those experiences. The markets you stumble across. The recipes someone teaches you. The thing you cook over a camping stove halfway up a mountain. The meal everyone piles into when you finally get home.
This is where I bring all of that together.
Some meals fuel the adventure. Others are the reason to come home. The best ones somehow manage to do both.
FOOD
What you’ll find here.
- Wholesome, flavour-packed recipes inspired by food cultures from around the world. Some are designed to fuel long runs, rides and days in the mountains. Others are simply the sort of meals that disappear quickly around a busy family table.
- Along the way you’ll find stories from southwest France, adventures further afield, and the people, producers and places that influence what we cook.
PHILOSOPHY
How we eat.
- Real ingredients. Plenty of plants, whole foods and things you can actually recognise.
- Flavour first. Healthy eating should never feel like a compromise.
- One table. No separate “healthy” food, kids’ food and grown-up food.
- No dogma. No fads, guilt or obsession with eating perfectly.
Made in the foothills of the Pyrenees.
We live in southwest France, where mountains, farms, markets and long lunches are all part of the landscape.
It’s home, but it’s also the starting point for Table & Trail. I’ll share the food and people I discover close by, as well as stories gathered further afield through travel, photography and time spent outdoors.
Because good food has always been one of the best ways I know to understand a place.
BeYOND THE RECIPES
There’s more to the story
The recipes are only part of Table & Trail. On YouTube you’ll find the films behind them: days in the mountains, visits to producers, family adventures, food cooked outside and the stories of where ingredients come from.
Instagram is where I’ll share the smaller moments along the way.
From the kitchen
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New recipes, seasonal ideas, recent adventures and the occasional thing worth eating, watching or reading.
From the kitchen
A little Table & Trail in your inbox.
New recipes, seasonal ideas, recent adventures and the occasional thing worth eating, watching or reading.