The cat’s out of the bag. Prince William and Kate Middleton are finally engaged and speculation reigns about the forthcoming nuptials. While we all love a good royal knees-up, here at Foodepedia HQ we’re not really interested in where it will take place, who will design the dress, or whether Carole will kickstart the conga – all we want to know is what will be on the menu!

Douglas Blyde wastes no time in sampling Cornwall’s bounty of meaty crabs, saline oysters and hardy cattle…

Slow food? Forget that. At the Porsche Restaurant in the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone they’re running a series of dinners named ‘Fuel your Passion’. Here diners can dine amongst the cars, as well as eat food cooked by a different Michelin super-starred chef each time. William Morris takes off his bicycle clips and attempts to look wealthy.

The Patak Empire strikes back from the dusty shelves of Asian grocers nationwide. Those purveyors of pickles have teamed up with Masterchef winner Dhruv Baker and wine expert Suzy Atkins to launch a curry club from their website.

Hey chocolate lover, Foodepedia knows that Chocolate Week is like Christmas for you. So for Chocolate Week this year (11-17th October), we’ve put together a few other things that you could do to celebrate.

Every year, when the weather turns wintry and Christmas is on the horizon, I would start my search for the perfect dark chocolate truffle for the season. So when I heard about William Curley’s chocolate making masterclass, I thought to myself “what a perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon”.

The beef got a bit overdone, but Nick Harman loves lunch with fellow foodies at the Guinea Grill to sample some of the best of our island produce in quintessentially British surroundings

Up in Manchester, food is being taken as seriously as it is anywhere down south. In fact up north they have perhaps even more local produce and local crafts to celebrate, being less subject to the winds of trend as us soft southerners are. Nick Purves pops up to the Food Festival and gamely avoids making the usual jokes about baggies and being mad for it.

The blue lights flashing through the Fire Stables in Wimbledon Village from the Paramedic car parked outside are too little, too late. The dead bodies lined up on the table are beyond help; they won’t be flying again.

We’d come to L’Atelier des Chefs cookery school to learn about Canadian ingredients hosted by the Canadian Tourism Commission. And despite the Canadian chat about syrups of birch and maple, berries of cloud and lingon, almost every attendee was neck-craning for the fiddlehead ferns.