Archive for November, 2007

Hotel Chocolat Competition

One of the better UK-based food blogs - Eating Leeds - is running a fine looking competition in conjunction with Hotel Chocolat, where the prize is a mouth-watering selection of their very finest chocolates and a recipe book. The winner then competes for even more fine prizes.
“Do you have the best Christmas chocolate-chip cookies in [...]


R2 D2 Collectable Sauce Pourer

You know you want one… ok, maybe not but for an avid Star Wars fan this sauce bottle maybe just the thing for Christmas.
It is a novelty sauce dispenser made in Japan, in the shape of good old R2 D2. It’s limited edition and available now for pre-order to anywhere in the world, shipping [...]


Co-Op Supports The Children’s Society

The Co-operative is lending extra support to The Children’s Society this Christmas as part of its aim to raise more than £1 million for the children’s charity and its partners by the end of this year.
You can help by giving your lunch break a festive or seasonal twist over the next few weeks by buying [...]


Traffic Light Guidelines Changed

The Food Standard Agency has changed its guidance for cereal producers - they can now differentiate between the different types of sugars used.
The modifications are part of the second edition of the technical guidance on traffic light labelling.
These changes come after consumers questioned the difference between products high in added or artificial sugar and those [...]


Sunday Times Top Food Books

The Sunday Times announced yesterday, with little fanfare, their Cookbook of the Year - Persia in Peckham by Sally Butcher.
In addition to this fine tome they list 10 other highly recommended food books for Christmas as detailed in the display below. This includes the excellent 1080 Recipes reviewed earlier on The Foodie List.

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