Archive for January, 2007
Flavour Sprays
Bizarre product of the week - flavour sprays or to use the American spelling FlavorSpray.
What I gather is that, as a way of loosing weight, you use these sprays to impart a flavour of a type of food. So you can buy a cheesecake spray or a banana split spray and, well, spray [...]
Purple Love Week
Purple Love Week? What on earth…
Purple Love Week is Britain’s biggest free food tasting event. It takes place from 10th-17th February and is all about supporting your local independent retailers. Hundreds of delicatessens, farm shops and other small retailers are taking part and all are offering free tasting events in store during the week.
Shoppers will [...]
Recipes for Chinese New Year
This year, Chinese New Year celebrations will start on Sunday February 18th. Why not celebrate in style with recipes provided by Tiger Beer and Sharwoods?
Over on the Tiger Beer website - located next to a competition to win dinner for two at a top Chinese restaurant and a year’s supply of Tiger Beer - are [...]
Homecooking: Soulfood Served By Jazzanova and Friends
The theme of this ‘various artists’ compilation is eating with friends. The album comes complete with a cookbook providing inspiration for the dinner party you are supposed to host while playing the music.
The album received a healthy 4 out of 5 in the Times recently who described Homecooking: Soulfood as
many tastes are catered for, [...]
Colchester - Mince Pie Eating Capital of the UK
Sainsbury’s has released a set of sales figures - indeed, boring stuff, but before you click away…
…these figures make Colchester the mince pie eating capital of the UK! An accolade they have now won for the third year in a row. An astonishing 201,000 pies have already been eaten by Essex pie fanciers in [...]