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PETER FROST visits Suffolk in search of good food
A moray eel

I SPENT the roasting August bank holiday weekend in Suffolk visiting my cousin Laurie and his wife Donna who live just outside of the beautiful ancient wool town of Bury St Edmunds.

Bury is rich both with magnificent ancient religious buildings and more modern cathedrals of food and drink. 

As you turn off the A14, your arrival is dominated by the huge and often sickly-sweet steaming British Sugar beet processing works. It turns East Anglia’s beet harvest into all kinds of sugars.

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