Food Events
Purple Love Week - 7 days of loving great food
The simple message behind Purple Love Week, 9th – 16th February 2008, is to encourage people to go out and find great food and enjoy it with great company.
The big fight - Turkey vs Goose
Forget Hatton vs Mayweather, the big fight this month is between the turkey and the goose. If you're caught in the middle then look no further than the BBC Food website's exclusive Christmas videos to help you decide which bird will win in your kitchen.
BBC Food launches biggest ever Christmas website
The BBC has just rolled out its most impressive Christmas Food website to date at bbc.co.uk/food. You'll find inspiring ideas for the great festive feast from some of the BBC's best-known chefs, including Nigella, Rick Stein and Antonio Carluccio, who'll provide plenty of advice for your Christmas entertaining this year.
Marco Pierre White to judge Chef of the Year
Chef, entrepreneur and culinary genius, Marco Pierre White has kindly agreed to be a celebrity judge for the KNORR National Chef of the Year 2008 competition and is calling for entries from eager chefs.
World-Class chefs share secrets for Crisis
Twenty-eight internationally renowned chefs have come together to create the Crisis Cook Book, a collection of 84 of their favourite recipes in aid of the national homelessness charity Crisis. The recipes are then followed by 10 short wine essays on how to maximise your enjoyment of wine written by acclaimed wine writer Jancis Robinson.
James Martin heads to Birmingham Bites
Birmingham Bites, the campaign which celebrates the city’s diverse food and drink offering, invites you to meet celebrity chef James Martin. James, star of Saturday Kitchen, will be doing a demo on the Birmingham Bites stand (T50) at the BBC Good Food Show on Wednesday 28th November.
Pick up a pudding and run for Cancer Research UK
Pudding pandemonium is about to break out in Covent Garden with the Cancer Research UK Great Christmas Pudding Race. Teams in fancy dress are polishing up their pudding-balancing skills to negotiate an Its-A-Knockout-style course of inflatables while balancing a Christmas pud on a tray and being pelted with flour, foam and water.
Welsh food takes to the small screen this Christmas
Shoppers looking to stock up for Christmas will be in for a treat as a host of Welsh food takes to the small screen next week (November 19) in a special show on UK TV shopping channel QVC, marking the first anniversary of its True Taste of Wales Show.
Mutton renaissance at Selfridges
The start of the new Renaissance Mutton season has been boosted with news that the meat is being launched into Selfridges. Selfridges is presenting new season Renaissance Mutton at its Oxford Street food hall this week. For the first time the butchery counter will offer customers a selection of cuts including leg, diced shoulder and chops.
All Bar One hosts Favourites Festival
Thirteen might be unlucky for some, but visitors to All Bar Ones will have the chance to celebrate its thirteenth year with free samples of the world’s most exciting beers and ciders courtesy of its ‘Favourites Festival’.
Celebrate National Chilli Week
Celebrate National Chilli Week with Edible Ornamentals, passionate, dedicated and slightly obsessive growers of gorgeous, lip smacking chillies located in the Bedfordshire countryside.
London’s first Cupcakery opens for business
Not to be outdone by NY or L.A., where cupcake shops are sprouting up on every corner, London now counts with its own cupcakery. Buttercup cake shop recently opened its doors on a quiet road off Kensington High Street. “Hard to find but worth the hunt” is the shop’s motto. And if you love cake, you will indeed find it worth the hunt!
Let them eat cake
To celebrate the Diamond Wedding anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 20th November 2007, London’s Little Venice Cake Company has designed an exclusive 3 tier wedding cake.
Mich Turner launches Fantastic Party Cakes
Mich Turner, founder and director of London’s Little Venice Cake Company has launched her latest book – Fantastic Party Cakes - with a swish party at London’s Dorchester Hotel.
UK curry champions celebrate in style
Britain’s curry kings and queens were crowned in magnificent style on 21 October as the Lloyds TSB Cardnet-sponsored 2007 British Curry Awards reached their spectacular climax. More than 3,000 restaurants had started out as award hopefuls, having been put forward by a staggering 22,000 public nominations.