Food and Drink

A you Game for it?

Food lovers will be spoilt for choice this Autumn with the wide variety of game available at the start the new game season, in particular, venison, partridge and pheasant. Look out for the exciting range of convenient cuts now available that enables you to use game in a wide variety of everyday dishes from spaghetti bolognaise using venison mince to curries using pheasant breasts.

Fizzing Festive Fun This Christmas

There’s a huge range of fun and festive treats in store for you at the General Tarleton Inn, at Ferrensby, North Yorkshire this year. In fact, there’s so much going on over this year’s festive period, you’ll have to try hard to find an excuse not to go along to one or more of the fun treats on offer. This is the place where GT not only stands for General Tarleton, but also ‘Good Time’.

Dita Von Teese Becomes Cointreau Ambassador

Cointreau is delighted to announce that, effective immediately, Dita Von Teese will be its worldwide brand ambassador. A press conference will shortly be held with the celebrity to unveil the details and scope of this partnership, initially signed for two years. The rapprochement between Cointreau and Dita Von Teese was seen as entirely natural by both parties.

Share Your Blushes With Echo Falls

Embarrassing moments happen to us all and many of us have had those mortifying experiences when you want the ground to swallow you up right there and then. To honour all those toe-curling incidents, Echo Falls are encouraging girls to get together and share their stories of shame with a glass of their new Pinot Grigio Blush.

Ken Hom To Be Awarded With Honorary Doctorate

Celebrity chef Ken Hom, widely regarded as one the world’s greatest authorities on oriental cooking, is to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University on 12 September 2007 at 2pm in recognition of his ‘outstanding success within the international food world’.

Curtain Up For Zucca Café & Restaurant

It’s show time for Zucca, a new contemporary Italian restaurant which has opened at the famous Royal Lyceum Theatre, on Grindlay Street, Edinburgh. One of Edinburgh’s most accomplished chefs Richard Glennie fought off stiff competition to win the contract for the 45-cover Lyceum restaurant which occupies the mezzanine floor and the café on the ground floor of the Victorian building.

Cooking With Chocolate Is Divine

Absolute Press, in collaboration with leading Fairtrade chocolate company Divine, is publishing “Divine Heavenly Chocolate Recipes with a Heart” this month.

Local Food Is Favourite Fare In UK’s Smallest Town

Mary Ann Gilchrist the chef patron of Carlton Riverside with husband Alan has put Llanwrtyd Wells on the culinary map with the fine cuisine in their new boutique restaurant with rooms. It has been awarded four gold stars by the AA Hotel and Restaurant Guide for its excellence of food, service and accommodation. The new 2008 Good Food Guide gives it the second highest rating in Wales with the score of 6, which she has maintained for a decade.

Morrisons Celebrates Organic Fortnight

To mark the UK’s biggest celebration of organic food, Organic Fortnight, Morrisons have reduced prices by a third on over 100 of their own brand organic products. The Soil Association’s annual drive to promote the benefits of eating organic produce runs from the 1st to the 16th September and Morrisons are holding staggered promotions in store throughout Organic Fortnight, encouraging customers to try a great range of organic products.

Irresistible Winter Warmers

Winter may well be closing in and with it, the urge to stay in watching videos and eating chocolate! However there are few excuses not to stay healthy - despite the cold and the rain - as The Food Doctor has something to tempt everyone this winter with their Just Steam Meals range.

Morrisons Serve Up A ‘Delizioso’ New Range

Now you can serve up authentic Italian style pasta dishes with restaurant quality at home, with a little help from Morrisons new The Best range of Pasta Sauces. Produced in Italy and using only the very best ingredients, Morrisons have created four new and exciting sauces based on authentic Italian recipes. The only thing we can’t help cook up is the romance.