Food News
Cranberry sauce – the perfect autumn ingredient
You don’t need to wait for Christmas before opening that jar of cranberry sauce. Ideal with a whole host of meats and cheeses, cranberry sauces are perfect as both an ingredient and an accompaniment to your favourite dishes all year round. To show just how versatile cranberry sauce can be, Sophie Grigson has come up with some inspired recipes to keep you creative in the kitchen.
New book reveals the highs of dark chocolate
The forthcoming book by cognitive scientists Simon Wootton and Terry Horne - ‘Teach Yourself Training Your Brain’ – reveals that dark chocolate can give you a buzz and boost your brain speed, without the fatiguing side-effects of caffeine. The book also reveals that dark chocolate contains a cannabinoid brain chemical which is known as the “bliss chemical”, because it is produced in the brain when you feel good.
Brits rekindle love affair with Sunday Roast
'How to’ website VideoJug (videojug.com) has seen a dramatic rise in viewings of their Apple Crumble video recipe and other classic Sunday lunch dishes. Each Sunday for the past month VideoJug, the world’s most popular website for factual video content, has recorded a massive 100% surge in the number of views to their “How to make Apple Crumble” video. There have been similar rises in the views of other classic British recipes including how to make Roast Beef, Roast Potatoes and Yorkshire Pudding.
American style breakfast delights
Eating a hearty breakfast can help maintain a healthy weight, not forgetting that it also does wonders for your energy levels. If you are working during the week give your laborious breakfast a bit of a zing, plan something really romantic for you and your partner and what could be better than a stimulating breakfast in bed to put a spring in your step.
Crisps – the Kettle way
Kettle Chips is celebrating the launch of four exciting new seasonings. Kettle chef Chris Barnard chose the UK’s most popular crisp seasonings but did them the Kettle way, using all natural flavourings and no MSG – which some crisp makers use to enhance the to flavours artificially. Using his knowledge of natural taste combinations, he worked to create seasonings that scored top marks with crisp fans.
Britalia rules the wafers
Rule, Britalia! The Italians gave us Pinot Grigio, we gave them Pimms, they gave us Pavarotti, we gave them Paul Potts - now you can have a taste of both nations with KitKat Cappuccino, as the UK’s favourite chocolate bar gets a taste of Italy.
An Italian vegetable delight – grown in Britain
Generations of Italians have appreciated cavolo nero as a versatile yet tasty vegetable. A member of the brassica family along with kale, cavolo nero is a popular ingredient in many classic Italian meals from soups to vegetable dishes. But British grown cavolo nero is now available in the UK!
Pete Doherty beats Posh to organic nosh
Pete Doherty has come out on top for once, but as the celebrity most in need of an organic breakfast, according to a new poll commissioned by the Soil Association. The poll of 1,000 UK mums on mumsnet.com asked which celebrity most needed to wake up to a hearty organic breakfast and poor old Pete came top of the list with 37% of the vote.
Fairtrade Grapefruit becomes available nationwide
The world’s first Fairtrade grapefruit are now available in more than 500 Co-op stores across the country, replacing all the non Fairtrade red grapefruit in these stores. The fruit has been imported by Fairtrade fruit pioneers and specialists AgroFair UK.
A new addition to the fruit bowl for October
October sees the start of the Spanish Persimmon season, the shiny, firm, tomato-shaped fruit with a sweet apricot taste. Morrisons stocks Persimmon fruit when in season, from October until early December. Delicious in oriental cooking using pork and lamb, it is also perfect for salads, cakes, desserts, and can even be made into jam.
Welsh pâté producer honoured by UK food industry
From kitchen table dream to global success, Margaret Carter’s work as founder of one of Wales’ top food companies has been honoured with a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the Great Taste Awards.
A hunger for English apples
September 18 marked the official start of the English Apple season with the arrival of the major English varieties in retailers, more than 7 days earlier than last year. The taste of the apples this year is excellent and demand is greater than ever. However, whilst demand soars, many consumers are confused about which apples are actually English.
Run of success for Welsh chef’s marmalade
A chef from Hay on Wye has received one of the food industry’s highest honours - the award for Best Welsh Speciality, sponsored by the Welsh Assembly Government, at the 2007 Great Taste Awards. Mike Carnell’s Grapefruit and Ginger Marmalade proved a massive hit with the judges, who also awarded it the much sought after three star Gold award.
Support your local deli and taste British gold
The Taste British Gold campaign runs for three weeks from 28th September 2007 in local delicatessens, farm shops and small independent food retailers. It will give consumers the opportunity to sample the most exquisite artisan foods recently awarded gold in the prestigious Great Taste Awards.
Eight green steps to an organic Christmas
This year's organic Christmas is set to be bigger than ever as organic food and drink sales in the UK nudge the £2 billion mark for the first time. Sales of organic products through box schemes, mail order and other direct routes increased by a staggering 53 per cent last year.