Archive for July, 2007

anCnoc Whisky Blogs

by Andrew on July 18, 2007 in On The Web with No comments

anCnoc WhiskyThe anCnoc Malt whisky site has been relaunched – in addition to a new series of podcasts and a competition to win an iPod two blogs have been added to the site.

One is to focus on the ‘international’ the other on the ‘local’. I imagine these are split to cover alternative marketing promotions and country specific details. Nothing as yet is listed on either page.

anCnoc local blog is to be penned by Robbie Innes

“Robbie ‘the bobby’ spent some 30 years policing the north-east of Scotland before retiring seven years ago, but he’s shown no sign of putting his feet up. A piper of many years standing, he’s president of the Buckie and District Pipe band and is a regular performer at numerous local functions.”

While the anCnoc international blog has Chris Brousseau as the writer.

“Such is the passion Chris has for anCnoc, he’s moved halfway across the world to prove it! Born in Canada over 50 years ago, he’s left his Ontario home behind and set up home in Speyside, bringing with him a vast knowledge of “all things whisky”. The creator of The Whisky Game (a trivia challenge featuring over 800 questions on Scotch whisky), he is no stranger to Scotland, having visited many of the country’s distilleries and written a number of articles about whisky.”

Appletiser Lunch Competition

by Andrew on July 17, 2007 in In the Press, Tasting Events/Shows with No comments

AppletiserFancy a lunch on the Orient Express? Or how about a helicopter day jaunt to Champagne or four three-course meals in four countries around the world?

All are up for grabs in the lastest Appletiser promotion. Nothing on the website but perhaps they are waiting for when the competition formally launches on August 1st. The winner of this on-pack promotion gets to select the winning £10,000 prize from a range of 10 trips for four friends.

Additional prizes include a £2,000 lunch package each month for three months and luxury hampers worth £300.

Did you know they also produce a pear version, Peartiser and that both count towards your 5 a-day quota? No, me neither.

I Love Cheese

by Andrew on July 16, 2007 in On The Web with No comments

I Love CheeseThe lovely Adele runs the comprehensive cheese site, I Love Cheese. She has been nagging me for an age to get some links up on my Wine and Cheese page. I thought the site was worth more than a simple link though and warranted a fuller mention here on The Foodie List.

“ILoveCheese.co.uk was formed to offer a unique reference point on cheeses of the world. Cheese is one of the world’s great foods. We tell you about its many varieties around the globe and how it’s made. Our concern was that there was no single UK resource for interesting features and practical advice on this subject. Our features and articles are written by professional journalists and experts – who have a particular interest, or a background in this area.”

Plenty of info to keep any cheese lover delving in and out of the site – guidelines for the perfect cheese board, a list of famous cheeses each with an over-view and serving suggestions, several recipes split into dessert, mains, snacks and the like and a few notes on wine and cheese.

Over-all an interesting little site to explore that should, if the cheese related articles keep on flowing, should build up into a useful resource.

Sainbury’s trials food deliveries on the Thames

by Andrew on July 14, 2007 in Supermarkets with No comments

Sainsbury’s VanSainsbury’s, has reported a trial for environmentally-friendly way of delivering food to its stores as a success. The supermarket has recently transported food on the Thames, as it did originally in 1869.

The journey would mean that once food is dispatched by a Sainsbury’s distribution centre in South East London, the day’s delivery for the store would be shipped by barge, rather than by road, arriving in close proximity to the west London store. If rolled out to stores in the same area, this could save 350,000 road kilometres every year.

Moving freight to the river could contribute to Sainsbury’s new target of reducing CO2 emissions by 25% by 2012; outlined along with other tough targets in its corporate responsibility report issued this week.

The trial is one of many projects Sainsbury’s is exploring to be more energy efficient, particularly in the area of transport and operations, where it aims to reduce the distance its fleet and suppliers travel by 5 million kilometres by 2010.

Roger Burnley, supply chain director, Sainsbury’s, said:

“The trial, in conjunction with the Port of London Authority was a success, and proved there are alternatives for us to be more efficient as a business, environmentally sustainable, and cause less congestion on busy London roads. But it’s interesting that one of the ways we could do this is by revisiting how we operated when we set up shop almost 140 years ago.
“It’s in our heritage to manage and reduce our environmental impact, and using the Thames is an extremely efficient way of doing this. We take corporate responsibility very seriously, and projects like this can contribute to how we’re tackling issues such as energy efficiency and the transportation of food head on.”

UK Blogwatch: Lilly and Chew

by Andrew on July 11, 2007 in On The Web with 1 Comment

Lilly and ChewWe must be approaching the round hundred now; another UK-based food blog Lilly and Chew. OK, so the latest post featured cats and leg bruises but food is the focus.

The picture accompanying Easypeasy Japanesey is rather good and evocative and the Goosberry Tart recipe looks like something anyone could accomplish but there are touches of humour through the site too – such as the highly amusing interestingly shaped root vegetable!

Lilly and Chew

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