Archive for February, 2007
Bread Baking Course at the River Cottage
River Cottage, have built two wonderful looking wood-fired clay ovens and sited them in the grounds. Being a fan of bread-making these are most desirable!
To accommodate these they have setup more ‘bread and bake’ courses.
Take part in a course and you’ll learn how to build your own oven by hand, using local [...]
Cornish Pilchard Works
What do you call people who collect pilchard tins? No idea but they exist I assure you. Food packaging design is an important facet of eating - after all if the prodcut doesn’t entice the specific consumer you are targetign isn’t going to buy.
I mention pilcard tins as someone pointed out how lovely [...]
Local French and Italian Food From Natoora.co.uk
A great concept is Natoora - they list a variety of local, mostly aritsan, foods from across France and Italy and arrange delivery into the UK. They list over 2200 products that are sourced direct from over 160 different producers.
So on the website you can find Salers Cheese (250g £4.46) from Saint Gernim in France, [...]
The Olive Oil Club
There are several foodie clubs, accessible online, that promise regular deliveries of their wares - cheese, chocolate and of course wine - they always sound great until you come to the subscription! The Olive Oil Club promises to deliver “up to three 500ml bottles of ultra fresh extra virgin olive oil four times a [...]
Guinness Marmite
Or Marmite Guinness! A limited edition bottle of the nations most loved/most hated spread mixed with that other love or hate it treasure, Guinness.
Available on the shelves of Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s and Waitrose this ‘just in time for St Patricks’ day edition will cost £2.49 and guaranteed to be a collectors item as only 300,000 [...]