This week, I dreamt up the perfect shortbread cookies studded with deliciously creamy chunks of white chocolate, crunchy pistachio nuts and perfumed with the grated zest of fresh oranges… They make for the most heavenly mouthful of crumbly, buttery goodness and a fabulous gift that anyone would be lucky to receive
Bringing home the bacon – pigs in The Peaks
Pig farmer and restaurant in perfect harmony. Outside Sheffield Max Freeman raises rare-breed pigs for The Milestone restaurant in Sheffield to serve to their customers. They’re happy, the pigs are happy and Nick Harman has a smile on his face too as he sees how teaming up like this has made this city restaurant an award-winner
Greens of Whitby haul in the awards
Rob Green, chef/proprietor, and his wife Emma, of Green’s Restaurant & Bistro, in Whitby, North Yorkshire, were recognised as ‘The Taste of Yorkshire’ at the recent White Rose Awards at the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
Balance glasses from Fish Hoek – a wine lover’s ideal glass
Anyone here remember Weebles? These 70’s egg shaped toys had a low centre of gravity so that no matter how hard you tried you couldn’t push them over. You could throw them at your annoying sister and get a satisfying ‘thunk’ as they bounced off her head, but that’s another story. These Balancé glasses do the same trick.
Enjoy a Merry Christmas with the British Cheese Board’s Ultimate Cheese Pairings
This Christmas, the British Cheese Board is encouraging families and friends to upgrade their ordinary festive cheeseboards with it’s ultimate cheese pairings. With over 700 named varieties of British cheeses on offer, take your cheeseboard to the next level by perfectly matching each piece of British cheese with its ultimate partner, whether it is wine, whisky, port, beer or even Christmas pudding.
Why not fill your Christmas stocking with award-winning treats from Wales?
The Welsh True Taste Food & Drink award-winning producers have some delightful products to make anyone’s Christmas stocking bulge this year. These products will suit foodie friends of all ages and could be just the something extra you are looking for to pack out that Christmas stocking – or sack!
Re-Generating Tuscany
In the company of BBC’s Olly Smith, Douglas Blyde travels to Tuscany to see how a quartet of its leading wine producers are thoughtfully modernising…
Caponata launches in Camden
Just a short hop from Camden High Street, in Delancey Street, this new Osteria and Restaurant launched on the 2nd December to the sounds of lively band music while invited guests quaffed wines or beers and nibbled on interesting canapés. It was a fun evening that did justice to this new eatery, which occupies the site of the old Cafe Delancey.
Bingham Hotel and Restaurant
Having recently reported on site that the Bingham Hotel had won two BT Visit London gold awards, for ‘Best Small Hotel/B&B’ and for ‘Best Gastronomic Experience’ we decided we must go along and see what all the fuss was about. The Bingham certainly is a great gastronomic experience.
A pie and a pint at The Warrington
Having been invited to a Gordon Ramsay place for something to eat and to drink, well you go, don’t you? We were asked along to The Warrington for a pie and a pint and a look around after some work had been done on the place. It is hard to say whether The Warrington is unique but I would hazard a guess that because of the way it has been developed over its 150 years, it probably is.