Food News
A New Logo For Fine Food
Provenance, traceability, trustworthiness, excellence in food and above all, great taste. At last a logo you can trust! It stands for ‘Proven Fine Food’. The Great Taste Awards is the recognised mark standing for excellence in fine food, provenance and great taste.
The Facts Behind The Hype Of Organic Foods
The Organic food market in Europe grew by an average of 25% each year between 1990 and 2000 to a turnover of around £6 billion in April 2000. The growth in the United Kingdom has been especially strong with a five fold increase in the last five years.
Italian Flavoured Pastas Exclusively At Harvey Nichols
A new range of gastronomic Italian flavoured pastas are now available exclusively from Harvey Nichols. Available in six exciting flavours such as Chocolate, Basil, Chilli & Garlic, Truffle, Castelmagno Cheese and Strawberry & Barolo, each strand of pasta is handcrafted using the finest quality durum wheat, kneaded with fresh eggs and contains no additives or preservatives.
Welsh Ice Cream Producer Gets Gold Mark
A Welsh ice cream company has become the first producer processor to qualify for the prestigious ‘Gold Top’ quality standard. Carmarthenshire based Cowpots, is run by the Bowman family, who use the rich creamy milk from their farm’s pedigree herd of Jersey cows to create a delicious range of premium ice cream.
Hell's Kitchen Returns With New Chef At The Helm
Marco Pierre White will step back into the kitchen for the first time in seven years when he takes over the reigns at TV’s most exclusive restaurant and puts a team of celebrities through their paces. Hell’s Kitchen is returning and the first ever British chef to achieve three Michelin stars - before handing them back - is in charge.
Break Bread To Get Ahead In Your Relationship
New research by Old El Paso reveals that many modern relationships are in need of a good feed. In fact, the age old adage that; ‘people who eat together, stay together’ rings more true in 2007 than ever before. It’s time to get ready to switch from tray to table if you want to keep your personal relationships on track.
Go Organic And Online This Christmas
Take a succulent, organic bronze turkey, add delicious organic chipolata sausages, mix with award-winning, dry-cured, organic streaky bacon and you have the finest ingredients for the perfect Christmas lunch – all delivered direct to your door. With a festive meat hamper from Eversfield Organic, this year you can relax and enjoy a stress-free, gourmet Christmas.
Eatsomewhere.co.uk Counts The Hits
Online local specialist Infoserve has reported a 19% surge in hits for recently revamped website eatsomewhere.co.uk - one of the UK’s most comprehensive eatery directories which incorporates around 300,000 restaurants, cafes and pubs.
Festive Goodies For Fairtrade Foodies
Cafédirect, the UK’s leading Fairtrade hot drinks company, has teamed up with The Gluttonous Gardener to provide the perfect Christmas gift for green-fingered gourmets. The ‘Coffee Lovers Crate’ is sure to be a winner with coffee connoisseurs and garden goddesses alike.
Freedom Food Organic Salmon Launches At Morrisons
Morrisons has become the first retailer to stock Freedom Food labelled salmon that is also certified organic, into 164 of its stores nationwide. Organic Boned Scottish Salmon Fillet and Organic Smoked Salmon comes from farms that are assessed to strict RSPCA welfare standards.
Stelios Launches easyPizza In The Midlands
Stelios the serial entrepreneur and founder of easyJet has introduced one of his more recent easyGroup businesses to Coventry. easyPizza is a pizza delivery business and is now operating three Coventry sites based in Bedworth (Mill Street), Earlsdon (Spon End) and Wyken (Hipswell Highway), which means that anyone in Coventry and Bedworth can now order an easyPizza meal.
Ready Steady - Lesley's Out Of Time!
Ready Steady Cook favourite Lesley Waters has run out of time in the charity challenge to find Britain’s favourite British turkey recipe. Her recipe for Turkey Koftas, using red onion, red pepper and cranberries for colour, was judged by visitors to Britishturkey.co.uk , but failed to find enough voters to keep her in the contest.
A New Generation Of Organic Meat Free Burgers
The food team at Cauldron like nothing better than coming up with new and inspiring ideas for their imaginative range of meat-free recipes. Their latest creations - Organic Mushroom & Wensleydale Burgers; Organic Mushroom & Stilton Burgers; and Organic Tofu & Aduki Bean Chilli Burgers – are true to form.
No More Soggy Lunches
Fed up with limp, soggy crisp bakes? Try Cauldron’s new Organic Shiitake Mushroom & Tofu Crisp Bakes. They are crispy all over, as a crisp bake should be, and make an irresistible treat for lunch or supper.
The Easy Way To Seriously Super Summer Picnics
We Brits just love to picnic and whether it’s sandwiches by the sea or a more sumptuous affair, even the smallest amount of pre-planning will transform any picnic into perfection.