Category: News
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Café Express Delivers The Total out of Home Solution
Café Express is the complete coffee solution, delivering high margins and market leading quality to out-of-home operators. Our Italian Espresso bean is expertly blended and roasted to be perfectly balanced and ideal for any coffee menu. It’s the creation of one of the UK’s biggest private label coffee manufacturers, and is made exclusively for the…
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Food for Thought – October 2017
Go Greek Pork medallions are quick and easy to cook, versatile, delicious and healthy – and these Souvlaki Pork Skewers created by AHDB Pork offer a delicious taste of Greece. Authentic Italian Want to cook authentic Italian? New book ‘Recipes from an Italian Butcher’ shows you how with mouth-watering dishes such as this orange-scented entrecôte pancetta. Frights,…
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“A well-planned vegan diet can support healthy living”
One of the UK’s longest-standing organisations that represents dietetics and nutrition has affirmed that a well-planned vegan diet can “support healthy living in people of all ages”. The British Dietetic Association (BDA) has renewed its memorandum of understanding with The Vegan Society to state that a balanced vegan diet can be enjoyed by children and…
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Britain’s Best Roast Dinner revealed
The Feathers Inn in Stocksfield has won Best British Roast Dinner 2017. The Feathers saw off competition from hundreds of pubs across the country – winning over judges with its passion for locally sourced and foraged ingredients, its perfectly cooked roast meats and wide selection of sides, and its dedication to catering for different dietary…
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Health and care catering sector secures its first accredited professional catering qualification
The first professional catering qualification for health and social care catering – Level 2 Award in Professional Cookery in Health and Social Care – developed by the National Association of Care Catering (NACC), Hospital Caterers Association (HCA) and the awarding body of the Institute of Hospitality (IOH), has been officially approved on the Ofqual Regulated…
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Celebrating Tetley’s 180th Anniversary
This October Tetley is excited to celebrate its 180th anniversary – the UK’s no.1[1] tea brand has been serving quality cups of tea to the nation since 1837! Tetley is drunk in 9.69 million UK households[2] and works all over the globe, sourcing, buying and blending the finest leaves to ensure the best quality cuppa is always served.From…
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2018 Student Chef Challenge deadline approaches
Chef lecturers have less than two months to enter the prestigious Country Range Student Chef Challenge. The closing date for entries is November 28 and, this year, the teams of three students need to develop a three-course, three-cover menu around the theme ‘Around the World in Three Spices’. Following the paper judging, live regional heats…
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Advice from the Experts: How to be competition ready
By George McIvor, chairman of The Master Chefs of Great Britain Competitions are an important part of the culinary calendar providing young chefs with opportunities to showcase their skills and receive valuable feedback from those much higher up the culinary ladder. The prizes on offer are designed to provide experiences that may otherwise be out…
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Advice from the Experts – Curing to bring home the bacon
AHDB chef and master butcher Dick van Leeuwen helps independent caterers to venture into the cured meat market with a simple dry cure method. Curing is an ancient method of preserving food, which has created a valuable market in the UK, generating more than £2.3billion of retail sales this year alone from sliced ham, gammon…
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Special feature: Gastrophysics – the science of great cooking
A pioneering chef has joined forces with an Oxford University professor to create a multisensory approach to dining. Jozef Youssef has launched ‘Gastrophysics’ – a 13-course menu at London’s Kitchen Theory with the aim of exploring the science and psychology behind how we perceive flavour. The menu challenges diners to think about how colour, aroma,…