Martha Stewart Living magazine is to launch in the UK from September.

The businesswoman, cook and TV personality’s other titles including Everyday Food and Martha Stewart Weddings will also see versions launched across Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria in September.

These international editions will offer a mix US generated content and editorial created specifically for each country’s audience.

Martha Stewart Living offers a mix of homekeeping, decorating, style and food related content.

The UK edition of Martha Stewart Living will cost £3.75.

Yummy Yorkshire, the innovative ice cream producer from Delph House Dairy Farm near Denby Dale, has been awarded a prestigious Great Taste Award by the Guild of Fine Food.

The Great Taste Awards are acknowledged by producers, retailers and consumers as the definitive, independent benchmark for speciality food and drink and Yummy Yorkshire has scooped a gold star for its striking blueberry ice cream flavour.

The ice cream company run by husband and wife team Jeremy and Louise Holmes already has eight Ice Cream Alliance Awards under its belt as well as a three-star gold Great Taste Award for its Lou’s Liquorice flavour.

This year’s Great Taste Awards saw a total of 1,300 producers enter 6,017 speciality food and drink lines, which were blind tasted by over 300 independent experts comprising leading chefs, food writers and buyers.
Commenting on the win Jeremy said: “Winning a Great Taste Award is a major achievement for a small, family run business like ours as it is one of the most trusted benchmarks for fine food and drink. The awards are carried out in a totally un-biased way, and judged on taste and texture by genuine ‘foodies’, who give full credit where it’s due.

“We gained a lot of recognition and new customers following our 3 gold star win last year and are hoping this year’s award will have a similarly positive effect on the business.”

The Great Taste Award is Yummy Yorkshire’s seventh award in the past 12 months. The artisan ice cream producer was recently of awarded Food & Drink Producer of the Year in the 2010 Yorkshire Rural Awards and was also named Local Food Producer (Prepared Produce) of the year at The Mayor of Kirklees’ 2009/2010 Local Food Awards.

This follows several award wins last winter for the company’s innovative Lou’s Liquorice Ice Cream flavour, which was awarded not only best Dairy Product, but also the coveted Supreme Product of the Year at the 2009 annual deliciouslyorkshire Awards.

Yummy Yorkshire Ice Cream is part of the third generation Delph House Dairy Farm business located on the A629 between Huddersfield and Penistone. Since launching in 2007 over 50 different flavours of traditional, contemporary and seasonal ice cream have been created using the fresh milk and cream from Yummy Yorkshire’s own 150 strong Holstein herd.

The Observer Food Monthly (OFM) awards, in association with First Direct’s Little Black Book, have been launched in todays Observer Food Monthly. Over the last seven years the awards have been the essential date in the foodie calendar. The search has commenced to find this year’s culinary connoisseurs.

Allan Jenkins, Editor of OFM, will be chairing a panel of renowned judges, including award winning food writer, Nigel Slater; Masterchef winner, Thomasina Miers; broadcaster, Mariella Frostrup; The Observer’s ethical correspondent, Lucy Siegle and Observer critic, Jay Rayner, as they tease out the top producers, chefs and retailers that this isle has to offer. The categories that the judges cast an expert eye over are: best producer, best newcomer, outstanding achievement award, and young chef of the year.

We can join in the fun too by entering a favourite restaurants, the local pub that holds a place in your heart, the recipe your friends think is your pièce de résistance or an independent local retailer that goes further than other shops in their quest for food perfection. For the first time this year you can enter your own commentary in the best food blog category.

By nominating you have the chance to win a food lover’s trip to Flanders; an overnight stay at Langham Hotel London; a six-course dinner at Fifteen Cornwall; a Laithwaites food hamper; a Maison du Chocolat luxury box, a meal for 10 at Kitchen Italia; a hamper of Cornish Yarg from Lynher Dairies; a hamper of Luscombe’s soft drinks; an ice-cream party for 10 at Freggo; or a Weber Genesis E-310 gas barbecue. For the full list of prizes and to nominate visit: www.observer.co.uk/foodawards

The remaining categories that readers can nominate are: best restaurant, best cheap eats, best Sunday lunch, best ethical restaurant, best reader’s recipe, best bar, best reader’s cocktail recipe, best food blog, food personality, sponsored by Weber and best independent local retailer.

The April issue of BBC Good Food magazine sees the launch of the ‘We love to cook’ series; a cut-out-and-keep guide created to encourage youngsters to start cooking. The first instalment is an Easter themed egg-stravaganza, featuring three egg-tastic recipes; baked dippy eggs, easy cheese frittata and iced fairy cakes.

The specially designed series features fun, and easy to make recipes to get kids cooking. Every recipe was cooked by children shown in the guide, and tested in the BBC Good Food kitchen, with the aim of getting kids to make their very own ‘We love to cook’ recipe book.

Each guide will feature a different main ingredient and contain simple step by step instructions; complete with photos and bolded sections flagging up when grown-up help is needed with all the recipes carrying an age rating, allowing both youngsters and adults to select a suitable recipe with ease, with recipes aimed at 3-6 year olds, 5-9 year olds and 8-14 year olds.

According to Lulu Grimes, food director at BBC Good Food magazine: “The Easter holidays can be a long holiday to fill for restless children, and what better or more constructive activity than to get kids into the kitchen and learning what could turn into a fantastic skill for life? We promise our triple-tested recipes are fun, easy to make and really work.”

The April issue of BBC Good Food magazine is on sale now, priced at £3.40. Next month our junior cooks will be cooking with chicken.

A new seasonal beer created by Sharp’s Brewery and the Eden Project has been flavoured with some very special ingredients – berries picked from bushes at the project’s site in Bodelva. Sloes, rosehips and hawthorn berries were picked by Eden staff in October and then used by Sharp’s head brewer Stuart Howe to create Winter Berry Ale, the latest in the brewery’s Seasonals range.

Winter Berry is a cask conditioned beer with a dark ruby colour, full of vibrant berry flavours, with the sharp fruitiness of the berries balanced and enhanced by the use of top quality malts and hops. This winter beer is now available in pubs across the country and in the Eden Project’s own restaurants and bars.

For the Seasonals range, the Eden team has unearthed the unusual, sometimes forgotten plant products used to flavour beer. The other beers in the range are 6 Hop IPA (spring), Honey Spice (summer) and Red Ale (autumn).

Complementing the new brew is a special pint glass which has a unique ingredients panel on the back.

Tracey Smith, Eden’s Commercial Relationship Manager, said: “It’s great to have worked with Sharp’s on this range, combining our plant expertise with their brewing know-how. Together, we have produced a selection of beers showcasing the best local ingredients that are proving to be a hit with drinkers.

“The glass adds that extra Eden touch too. We’re all about illustrating the relationship between plants and people and if people sipping on their pints get to the bottom of the glass knowing a little more about what goes into their beer, then all the better.”

The relationship between Eden and Sharp’s is long established and has previously produced Eden Pure Ale, which continues to be a popular part of the brewery’s bottle range.

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