The following is reprinted from The Western Morning News.

Food writer Carol Trewin, who worked as Farming Editor and later Food Editor of the Western Morning News, died on 14 October, 2009, after a three-year fight with leukaemia.

Carol, who was 56, joined the Western Morning News from BBC Radio Four's Farming Today Programme in 1997. She quickly earned a reputation as an expert in her field and as a great champion of Westcountry farming and food production.

After a four-year break from the newspaper, when she worked in Cornwall for the campaigning food organisation Taste of the West, she returned to the WMN in 2004 and shortly afterwards became Food Editor. She left through ill health earlier this year but continued to write articles on food until just a couple of weeks ago. Her last article, on food festivals, was published last Saturday.

As well as literally thousands of newspaper articles Carol had written two well-received books, Cornish Fishing and Seafood, and Gourmet Cornwall. She was working on a new book about the food of Devon when she died and had been dictating passages to her partner, poet and writer James Crowden, from her hospital bed in Plymouth.