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BITE 2013 Festival

by Andrew on January 21, 2013 in Tasting Events/Shows, Television, Radio, Video, Film with 1 Comment

Bite 2013 festivalBBC’s MasterChef Presenter Gregg Wallace and stars of Channel Four’s series The Fabulous Baker Brothers are among the celebrity chefs cooking up a culinary treat at a new food festival in the Cotswolds later this month - The Bite 2013 Festival.

Gregg Wallace will launch the inaugural Bespoke International Taste Extravaganza (BITE) 2013 at the luxury Cotswold House Hotel in Chipping Campden with a special five-course opening dinner on Sunday 27th January.

Perfect for foodies looking for a culinary holiday, a gastronomic tour or a simple short break full of delicious food, BITE offers visitors the chance to attend exclusive dinners with the country’s top chefs, pick up cooking tips and secrets from the experts, learn from live demonstrations, and purchase locally sourced products from the region’s top artisan producers.

The festival which runs until Sunday 3rd February will feature a week-long menu of events that showcase Michelin-starred chefs, TV cookery celebrities, acclaimed food writers & authors and local food heroes.

BITE 2013 Festival Video

Meet The Fabulous Baker Brothers, chef Henry Herbert and his brother Tom, for breakfast and champagne, as they share the secrets behind the ingredients they use and the delicious magic they weave with them.

Join the cook, entrepreneur and Great British Menu judge, Prue Leith, for an exclusive discussion about her acclaimed autobiography Relish, during a grand dinner prepared by Former Roux scholar and Michelin-starred chef Simon Hulstone.

Dine with Britain’s premier travel guide guru Alastair Sawday, founder of the trusted Sawday’s Special Places Guide to find out about how to travel sustainably and make great discoveries, during a scrumptious two course meal which includes a complimentary copy of the Special Places Guide.

Appreciate the finest expressions of William Grant and Sons’ best-selling Glenfiddich whisky at a special tutored tasting. On arrival enjoy a glass of chilled Piper Heidsieck Champagne with your canapés.

Follow up with an exclusive tasting of three award-winning Glenfiddich single malts, followed by two fine single malts from the rare range. These are specifically chosen to complement a lavish meal cooked up by a Masterchef winner Mat Follas, whose seasonal British food has won him two AA rosettes and high praise from publications such as the Good Food Guide. If that’s not enough, take a chance at winning a VIP trip to the Glenfiddich distillery, including an overnight stay in a luxury hotel.

Satisfy your chocolate craving and experience a live demonstration by chocolatier extraordinaire Damian Allsop. Spend the afternoon learning the art of superb chocolate making at the hands of the maestro himself and discover why it is selected by so many of the top hotels in the country from Claridge’s to Hibiscus.

Spice up your life and enjoy two sizzling curry nights hosted by double award winning Pub Curry Chef of the Year Indunil Upatissa, also the head chef of the hotel’s sister property in Chipping Campden, the Noel Arms, and Ivor Peters, found of the Urban Rajah. Both chefs will also be joining forces to host the ultimate curry masterclass.

Round off the week by combining great food and superb wine presented by two true experts: Adam Byatt head chef at the highly acclaimed Trinity in Clapham (and newly opened Bistro Union) and Charles Metcalfe, former drink expert on Richard & Judy’s ‘This Morning’ and co-founder of Wine International, and the International Wine Challenge.

Enjoy a scenic walk through the beautiful Cotswold Way and stop off for a complementary lunch at The Mount Inn at Stanton, a true Cotswold country pub offering quality English food & local Donnington Ale. After lunch, you will be chauffeured back to the Cotswold House Hotel for a revitalising 30 minute treatment of your choice at its award-winning spa.

Sip, sample and savour produce created by local producers and suppliers for free throughout the week at the BITE 2013 Tasting Hut and prepare for the ultimate BITE finale as Chipping Campden’s Market Hall is taken over by an all-day foodie haven featuring the very best regional food producers, so you can leave with a basket full of passionately-crafted food.

BITE 2013 Festival supports a number of national and local charities, including The Princes Trust and Shipston Home Nursing.


British Game Month

by Andrew on November 7, 2012 in On The Web with No comments

british game monthThroughout the month of November the Countryside Alliance’s Game-to-Eat promotion campaign is running the first ever “Go Wild with British Game” month. The dedicated month will see over 50 official events take place across the country.

Many butchers, pubs and restaurants are actively promoting game during British Game Month with special game feasts and menus, cookery classes, demonstrations, tastings and distributions of our recipe leaflets. Game is more readily available than ever before from butchers, and Marks & Spencer is also backing the month by launching a range of game, broadening game’s audience yet further.

Michelin-starred Chef Tom Kitchin has told the campaign that

“Cooking game is an art and although mastering all of the techniques, procedures and skills required is challenging, it is so incredibly rewarding.”

Game-to-Eat is busy on other fronts too, running game workshops for students at catering colleges across the country. Game-to-Eat’s Consultant Chef Lee Maycock is running “fur and feather” workshops to introduce the Chefs of tomorrow to cooking with game. Lee is also heading up a judging panel to find the Game-to-Eat College Chef of the Year 2013 in association with the Craft Guild of Chefs. Year 2 and 3 catering students are invited to participate in this competition, which will yield £500 of equipment vouchers along with a week’s work experience at a top restaurant to the student who creates an original recipe using partridge or pheasant and sends us photographs of their dish.

Sir Barney White-Spunner, Executive Chairman of the Countryside Alliance said:

“By communicating game’s benefits to trade and the general public alike we are promoting a great British product and supporting our shooting industry. I hope you will join us in celebrating game this month”

To find your nearest event follow this link: http://www.gametoeat.co.uk/event-search/results?p=0

Leigh Food Festival 2012

by Andrew on July 18, 2012 in Tasting Events/Shows with No comments

Leigh Food FestivalTaste and buy some of the best food and drink on offer from local producers. The Stallholders will include:- African Biscuits, Alweston Jam and Chutney Empire, Bridport Pies, Capreolus Fine Foods, Chocolate Workshop, Dorset Blue Cheese and Soup Company, Dorset Fishwife, Easy Beans, Fudges, Granny Gothard’s Icecream, Leakers Bakery, Longmeadow Organic Vegetables, Manna Kitchen, Olivesetal, Pinks Organics, Reads Coffee Roasters, Sherborne Castle Estate Wines, Somerset Cider Brandy Co., White Post Gate Honey, Wylde Meadow Farm, and Yarty Cordials.

A variety of interesting cars & motorbikes will be on display. There will also be Flower Displays in St Andrew’s Church.

It will be opened by Julian Temperley creator of Somerset Cider Brandy Company.

The proceeds will be split between Yetminster Pre-School, The Rendezvous in Sherborne, Leigh Village Hall and St Andrew’s Church, Leigh.

Barbecued Hamburgers & Sausages, Refreshments, Ice cream, Beer and Cider will be here! Entertainment includes children’s activities, cookery demonstrations and Musical Entertainment

LEIGH FOOD FESTIVAL AND CLASSIC CAR/BIKE DISPLAY
SATURDAY 21th JULY 2012
10am-4pm

St Martin’s Courtyard Food Festival

by Andrew on June 14, 2012 in Tasting Events/Shows with No comments

st martins courtyard food festivalSt Martin’s Courtyard will pay tribute to the cultural diversity of London this summer with a free Global Food Festival on Saturday 14th July 12-5pm.

At the St Martins Courtyard Food Festival taste your way around the world as part of this celebration of food, drink and culture. All six restaurants; Bill’s, Cantina Laredo, Dishoom, Dalla Terra, Jamie’s Italian and Suda, will be hosting tastings, demonstrations and activities, transforming St Martin’s Courtyard into a vibrant open air street food market in the heart of London.

Cantina Laredo will be bringing a Mexican fiesta to the courtyard with a pop-up cocktail bar serving two thousand complimentary ‘Lime Paloma’ El Jimador tequila cocktails. For a hands-on experience there will be demonstrations in making Cantina Laredo’s ‘Top Shelf’ guacamole as well as tastings of signature dishes including the hot and spicy salsas and sizzling Mexican brownies. To add to the party atmosphere a Mexican mariachi band will be performing. Casa Rita margaritas will be half price all day for diners in the restaurant.

English cream teas will be served from Bill’s market barrow as well as strawberries with lashings of cream. There will be free cucumber finger sandwiches for all to be enjoyed whilst reclining in one of Bill’s deckchairs and listening to the jubilant sounds of a big brass band. Bill’s jams, marmalades and chutneys will be on sale in his little corner of England.

Recreating Bangkok’s famous street food, Suda will be cooking up a variety of delicious regional Thai dishes such as satay, Pandan wraps, Thai fishcakes and papaya salad. Guests can also enjoy performances by traditional Thai dancers and puppeteers. Children will love watching animals crafted from sugar. A street food tasting menu has been exclusively created and will be served in the restaurant.

Wine lovers should visit enoteca Dalla Terra for Italian wine tasting. Mini master classes will include a tasting of three wines plus some fine Italian cheeses and cold meats, for £10 per person. For a more in-depth experience, a one hour wine tasting seminar will be hosted in the restaurant at 3.30pm by one of Dalla Terra’s wine experts, giving an introduction to a selection of red and white wines, matched with unique cheeses and cold meats for £20 per person.

Bringing the aromas and flavours of Bombay to the courtyard, Dishoom will be dishing up melt in the mouth slow cooked pulled Lamb Raan burgers, as well as tempting Indian tipples and refreshing soft drinks.

Don’t miss the Jamie’s Italian hog roast and homemade Italian lemonade, served beside the restaurant’s al fresco terrace.

Taste delicious honey with zero food miles, created by St Martin’s Courtyard’s very own bees. Organic beauty brand Melvita was founded by a beekeeper and many of the natural products in the range are made using organic honey. A variety of Melvita organic honey is produced in beehives on the St Martin’s Courtyard roof garden and this will be available to taste in-store alongside Melvita’s range of honeys. To mark the launch of Melvita’s brand new Berry Body Wash which is made with juices and real fruit pulp, use pedal power to create your own free smoothie on Melvita’s urban smoothie bike.

St Martin’s Courtyard has become a destination for foodies, introducing new restaurant concepts to the London dining scene. With Italian, Thai, Mexican, Indian and British cuisine at St Martin’s Courtyard there is something for everyone on the menu. Cantina Laredo is the first of its kind outside America and offers authentic gourmet Mexican cuisine alongside London’s best selection of sipping tequilas. Dishoom is London’s first Bombay Café specialising in authentic Indian grilled food, cocktails and all day dining. Jamie Oliver’s West End flagship of Jamie’s Italian serves rustic Italian dishes in a laid back environment. Bill’s is a unique cafe/restaurant combined with a chef’s larder offering Bill’s chutneys, olive oils, preserves and more. Exclusive to St Martin’s Courtyard, Suda is a completely new Thai concept specialising in regional cuisine and Dalla Terra is an Italian enoteca with over 180 wines available by the bottle.

South Devon Crab Festival 2012

by Andrew on June 13, 2012 in Tasting Events/Shows with No comments

South Devon Crab Festival 2012Visit South Devon has announced the winner of its search for a Devon wine to accompany its famous South Devon crab that has its own Festival - South Devon Crab Festival - dedicated to it during the summer. (30 July - 5 August).

The 2010 Sharpham Estate Selection from South Devon Sharpham Estate was pronounced the winner by a distinguished panel of judges with an honourable mention given to Knowle-based Lily Farm’s Brut Sparkling Rosé. Those taking part in the blind tasting of 16 wines from an assortment of producers across Devon included international wine writer Susy Atkins, who is one of the regular wine experts from BBC1′s Saturday Kitchen together with Master of Wine Xenia Irwin, local wine merchant Nick Borst-Smith, Ben Foster of Newton Wines, James Dart from Dart’s Farm and Jonathan Woollatt from Chris Piper Wines.

The judges were invited to the Devon Country House and Wine School by Visit South Devon and owner and Master of Wine Alastair Peebles to find a wine that would go really well with the assortment of South Devon crab dishes which had been created by Devon Wine School’s Carol Peebles from fresh crab donated by David Markham from crab specialists, the Blue Sea Food Company.

The Sharpham wine (£10.95 from www.sharpham.com ) was pronounced a winner by all the judges with Susy Atkins saying, “It had just the right balance of crisp acidity and juicy fruit flavours to go with the crab.” All 16 wines were tasted blind so the judges had no idea of their provenance. A sparkling wine was also given an honourable mention because as Master of Wine Xenia Irwin commented, “It sang out in its glass,” and is perfect for those wanting to add some extra fizz to the festivities.

Devon is home to some of the UK’s renowned and award- winning vineyards which produce some classic wines but it is particularly fitting that a wine from a South Devon producer has come through in a blind tasting to be the perfect partner for South Devon crab. The winning wine will be showcased at the forthcoming South Devon Crab Festival.

Other Devon vineyards which showed well at the tasting were Eastcott Estate in Northlew, Summermoor Vineyard in Swimbridge, Manstree Vineyard in Shillingford St George, Pebblebed Vineyards from Topsham and Yearlstone Vineyards from Bickleigh.

Stephanie Cherrett, Marketing Manager of Visit South Devon, said, ”

The South Devon Crab Festival has become a popular annual event for celebrating some of the best food that Devon has to offer and so we thought that it would be a natural progression to invite some of our excellent local wine producers to get involved. We are delighted that the winning wine comes from the Sharpham Estate which is also in South Devon and was judged as the best wine to match the excellence of our tasty crab.”

Visitors will have the opportunity to try the winning wine alongside other drinks when they attend one of the new and extended 2012 crab festival events at Dartmouth, Dawlish Warren and Teignmouth.

Highlights of The South Devon Crab Festival 2012 include:
30 July - Festival Launch day
3 August - The South Devon Crab Fete in Dawlish Warren
3 August - Crab Street Party in Teignmouth
5 August - Crab Street Party in Dartmouth with Mitch Tonks and Nathan Outlaw

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