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Harrods Flemish Fortnight

by Andrew on November 25, 2009 in food, Specialist Shops, Tasting Events/Shows with No comments

harrods_flemish_fortnightTourism Flanders and Harrods have joined forces to offer customers a unique gastronomic celebration of the region’s finest food and drink. From 25 November until 8 December, Harrods will play host to some of the Flemish’s Coasts most renowned and respected chefs and feature a wide range of premium Flemish products throughout the food halls.

Throughout the fortnight, the Sea Grill and Rotisserie restaurants will showcase recipes by the Michelin starred Bart Desmidt, David Sevranckx, Piet Devriendt, and Vincent Florizoone. Each of the featured chefs is travelling to London for the promotion to teach Harrods’ own chefs the secrets of Flemish cuisine. During the promotion both restaurants will offer signature dishes from the guest chefs’ restaurants including specialties such as fresh scallops, mussels, steak tartare and marinated oxtail.

The Chocolate Bar located on the 2nd Floor of Harrods, will also feature a whole host of Belgian chocolate treats including heavenly creamy Wossels’ chocolate jenever, chocolate covered fresh waffles and hot milky chocolate made with flavoured chocolate sticks by Choc’o’Lait. The chocolate sticks are available in various flavours and are dipped in hot milk to produce a truly delicious hot chocolate drink.

Other products on sale will include the freshest of Flemish cheeses, charcuterie and seafood. Chefs in the Harrods Bakery will be baking “speculoos”, a type of spice infused biscuit as well as preparing the freshest waffles under instruction of chef Mario Cattoor. Shoppers will be able to sample a variety of Flemish produce throughout the Food Hall during the promotion including Neuhaus chocolates, a variety of Flemish beers as well as the “gin-like” spirit, jenever.

As part of the promotion, customers will be able participate in a competition to win a weekend for two at the Flemish Coast. To enter, they need only purchase a Flemish product from the Food Halls, Chocolate Bar or order a speciality dish from the Sea Grill and Rotisserie restaurants. Entry forms will be available throughout Harrods.

As well as the competition, the public can enjoy an inspiring window display, designed to promote the event and located on Hans Crescent. The display features an impressive visual arrangement of some of Flanders’ best loved products including the lifestyle brands Delvaux and Flamant.

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gourmetKAZOO

by Andrew on November 23, 2009 in In Search Of..., Online Retailers with 1 Comment

gourmetKazooInnovation is making its way into the old-world of European artisan food production. Today gourmetKAZOO officially launches, giving traditional food producers across Europe a new way to share their stories and sell their products directly to international customers. By connecting traditional food-makers to the online world, gourmetKAZOO gives customers a way to order the freshest & most authentic European gourmet products available anywhere in the world.

On the surface, www.gourmetKAZOO.com is set up as an online marketplace, allowing customers to purchase products such as truffles, olive oils, cheeses & salamis from traditional producers located across Italy, France, Spain, the UK & Ireland. Behind the scenes, a complex order management, accounting & shipping system automates international paperwork for the producers who are left to simply package their products which are collected and sent directly to the customer’s door thanks to the gourmetKAZOO partnership with UPS.

Different from other websites, gourmetKAZOO focuses on the social element of food; giving producers & customers an interesting way to interact; similar to what has happened in village marketplaces for generations. Today more than ever, consumers want to know the history behind the foods they eat. At the same time, European producers are proud of their traditions and enjoy sharing their stories. To facilitate this personal interaction on a global scale, gourmetKAZOO gives producers a simple way to tell their stories online with text, pictures and video while encouraging interactive dialogue with customers through blogging and commenting sections.

Customers interested in French cheese will be able to purchase AOP Cantal, Salers & Bleu directly from the farm GRANGE DE LA HAUTE VALLEE, where the milk of 40 cows takes on the natural flavors of the wild flowers growing in the fields of the Auvergne region.

Or, customers looking for this season’s olive oil will be able to meet a French producer, a Spanish producer, and an Italian producer all currently involved with the olive harvest. In a matter of weeks, their new vintage will be pressed, bottled, and ready for purchase; sure to be the freshest olive oil found anywhere in the world!

With 30 producers participating in the initial launch, the specialty food world can discover an exciting range of products, from tea to truffles. In the coming months, gourmetKAZOO plans to add hundreds of high quality producers to the expanding social marketplace. There are thousands of specialty food products made by traditional producers all across Europe; gourmetKAZOO’s goal is to help consumers find them all.

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Liberty Welcomes The First Pop-Up Cafe From Nescafe

by Andrew on November 23, 2009 in food with 3 Comments

liberty_nescafe_popup_shopThis November, Liberty will throw open its doors to Christmas shoppers with its first ever pop-up café from NESCAFÉ, serving complimentary coffee and demonstrating to visitors that its coffee is 100% real coffee made from pure and natural coffee beans and nothing else.

Christmas shoppers will be able to choose from a range of freshly made NESCAFÉ coffees all served in exquisite bone china cups and treat themselves to deliciously decadent cup cakes whilst relaxing in the surroundings of one of London’s top destination stores.

NESCAFÉ coffee experts will be on hand all week to take visitors through the journey a bean takes from plant to jar and the unique steps that NESCAFÉ takes to capture what nature provides.

Running from Monday 23rd November until Friday 27th November, the NESCAFÉ
pop-up café will be nestled on the third floor of Liberty and open from 11.00 until 18.00 with a special late night opening (21.00) on Thursday 26th November.

NESCAFÉ, like Liberty, is an iconic British brand with a long tradition of excellence. The nation’s favourite coffee brand has over 70 years experience of making coffee and as part of its own unique quality guarantee ensures that all of its coffees have been taste tested a minimum of six times on the journey from plant to jar.

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Food For Christmas - Season’s Eatings From Keevil & Keevil

by Andrew on November 20, 2009 in In Search Of..., Online Retailers with No comments

roast_goose_from_keevil_keevilRing the changes this Christmas with a festive feast from Keevil & Keevil. The oldest name on London’s famous Smithfield Meat Market, Keevil & Keevil - www.keevilandkeevil.co.uk - has a fantastic range of yuletide meat and poultry available to order direct to your door. We offer everything from the very best traditional birds to more unusual cuts - all guaranteed to help transform your Christmas dinner into a truly spectacular spread.

Free-range Goose
Our high-quality, free-range geese are reared in small flocks on open fields in Norfolk and Suffolk. Fed on a wheat-based diet and allowed to forage naturally among the crops, these geese have a wonderful, rich flavour and succulent meat. Prices from £45.50 for a 3-4kg goose.

Free-range Bronze Turkey
If turkey’s your thing, you can’t do better than our delicious free-range bronze birds. Reared using traditional free-range methods, and fed only natural GM free cereals, our turkeys are allowed to grow slowly and naturally to achieve the very best flavour and texture. Prices from £54.95 for a 4.5-5.5kg bird.

Festive Four Bird Boneless Roast
A real show-stopper, this spectacular, free-range multiple roast features pheasant breasts, mallard breasts and partridges inside a boneless goose. Guaranteed to impress your dinner guests. Price £98.95 for a 4.5-5kg roast.

Free-range Corn-fed Capon
Grown to maturity for a full, rich flavour, our free-range capons make an easy-to-cook alternative to the traditional turkey – ideal for those looking for a smaller oven-ready bird. Price £34.95 for a 2-3kg bird.

Wagyu Beef
For something really special, why not push the boat out and try our incredible Wagyu beef? Rated the world’s best, Wagyu beef is heavily marbled with unsaturated fat, giving it a luxurious, buttery flavour and an incredibly tender, melt-in-the-mouth texture. For the ultimate Christmas centrepiece, wow your guests with one of our Wagyu Silverside, Topside or Striploin joints. Prices from £140.00 for 10kg Silverside joint.

Game
Our wide selection of game, including pheasant, grouse, mallard, venison and partridge, makes a great alternative to traditional Christmas fare and is perfect for entertaining throughout the festive season too. For a delicious Christmas Eve supper, why not try our diced mixed game in a tasty casserole? (You’ll find the recipe for our great, easy-to-cook Country Game Casserole on our website. www.keevilandkeevil.co.uk ).

Charcuterie and Cheese
You’ll be spoilt for choice this party season with our extensive selection of the very best charcuterie and cheese from France, Italy and Spain, as well as our delicious, traditional bacon and hams.

Order from Keevil & Keevil this Christmas and there really is no excuse not to eat, drink and be merry!

The last order date before Christmas is Monday 21 December. The last delivery date before Christmas is Wednesday 23 December.
UK mainland delivery is free for orders over £150.00. Orders under £150.00 are subject to a £7.95 delivery charge. Minimum order £30.00.

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Marmite Pop-Up Shop

by Andrew on November 10, 2009 in food, Specialist Shops with 1 Comment

Champagne Valentines MarmiteThe first Marmite Pop-Up shop is about to open in London’s Regent Street (in the Quadrant Arcade).

The shop will be open for two months and sell over 100 different Marmite-themed products, ranging from t-shirts to tableware, artwork to aprons, stationary to Marmite snacks and even a Vegemite vs. Marmite taste-off!

There should be an oppotunity to sample the new Marmite cereal bar. As a keen Marmite lover (have you still got your lovers jar?!), this may well be right up your street!

It’s the world’s first cereal bar, so it’s definitely going to be something you can’t get enough of or throw straight in the bin!

The Marmite breakfast bar is the first significant product launch by any company to introduce a savoury product to this sector. The product is the latest extension of the Marmite brand into the healthy snacking market and joins the Marmite-flavoured rice cakes and breadsticks launched in 2007.

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