Speciality Foods
Romance is on the menu at Häagen-Dazs Leicester Square
Romance is on the menu at the Häagen-Dazs’ shop in Leicester Square this Valentine’s Day with a special fondue and raspberry bellini offer for two.
Turn ‘Blue Monday’ orange
January 25 is predicted to be 2010’s most depressing day of the year,* due to gloomy weather, debt levels, time elapsed since Christmas and broken New Year Resolutions, which is why The World’s Original Marmalade Festival is urging everyone to turn the day dubbed ‘Blue Monday’ orange!
Eat 40 per cent more with YO! Sushi!
Thinking about your New Year’s resolution checklist? Want to get fit? Drink less? Travel? Help others? Why not just eat 40% more!
The best of Norfolk produce from land and sea
The EDP Bidwells Norfolk Food Festival 2010 will be taking place from September 18 to October 3 reflecting the best of Norfolk produce from the land and the sea.
Exploring the world of artisan cheese
Patricia Michelson, founder of London-based epicurean store and café La Fromagerie, opens the door of her award winning Cheese Room to share her knowledge of the mysterious work of ‘affinage’ and explore the world of artisan cheese in her new book, Cheese - The World’s Best Artisan Cheeses.
Phuket hosts first raw food workshop
Raw food doesn't have to mean carrot and celery sticks. A new kind of raw gourmet food is gaining popularity for its unrivalled health benefits including weight loss and anti-aging. Celebrities including Demi Moore and Donna Karan have also adopted a raw food diet.
Cracking crustaceans in Key Largo
To the initiated, “stone crab claws” are the best-tasting crab in the world, and there’s no better place in the world to eat them than fresh from the ocean in the Florida Keys.
Fashionable favourites
As we count down the final days of the decade known as the ‘noughties', new research by smile, the internet bank from The Co-operative Bank reveals how our tastes have changed over the past ten years.
Yorkshire chef cooks up a Joyeux Noël
They crumble and crunch, melt in the mouth and taste of vanilla, cinnamon, chocolate and Christmas! What are they? Bredele – special continental cookies which offer a flavour of heaven almost unknown in Britain.
Whitmuir to open state of the art green restaurant
Whitmuir the Organic Place, near West Linton in the Scottish Borders, has opened a state of the art organic restaurant, farm shop and gallery.
Seaweed cooking to take culinary world by storm
A new and very different cookery book written by a relatively unknown Irish writer is hitting the shelves. ‘Prannie Rhatigan’s Irish Seaweed Kitchen’ is a comprehensive guide to healthy everyday cooking with seaweeds.
Go wild this Christmas and you won’t go wrong
Christmas is not the time to grab any old food off the shelf and hope it will do. Christmas lunch is probably the most important meal of the year, so when you go to endless trouble getting the turkey just right, make sure the traditional trimmings do it justice.
Award-winning Dorset bakery joins the virtual shopping world
Honeybuns, the award winning Dorset bakery, has joined the virtual shopping world. With it’s official launch in July, the cakes and new cookies have been flying off the shelves. Together with the company’s branded enamel gift tins and hessian shopping bags, customers are now able to spoil loved ones and themselves with an array of indulgent treats.
Harrods to host Flemish food fortnight
Tourism Flanders and Harrods have joined forces to offer customers a unique gastronomic celebration of the region’s finest food and drink. From 25 November until 8 December, Harrods will play host to some of the Flemish coast’s most renowned and respected chefs and feature a wide range of premium Flemish products throughout the food halls.
Winter dishes and chutney - the perfect pear
Britain yields its harvest of pears during the Autumn and Winter months when they are at their sweetest. There are several British varieties, but the most bountiful is the Conference pear, so named for the award it received at the 1885 International Pear Conference (honestly).