Pork is the meat of choice for many families

If you’ve heard the cry, “Let them eat pork!” it’s not surprising.  More Britons served pork roasts over the Christmas holidays than during the same period last year, and the trend seems to be continuing.  According to market reports, pork is experiencing a surge in popularity for several reasons, and price is just one of [...]

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Range cooker features

When choosing a range cooker, aside from width, fuel type and aesthetic, features are a key consideration before you purchase. As you would expect range cookers are available with a huge variety of features – from multifunction ovens to catalytic liners. But what do they actually do?

Oven types

Range cookers are available with various oven types [...]

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Put Pork on Your Fork

A promotional campaign for British pork has recently entered another phase and is part of the campaign where people are being urged to eat until they are happy. The overall campaign is known as ‘Put Pork on Your Fork’ and is being run by the Vion Food Group. The campaign has received a lot of [...]

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Low salt foods are not satisfying peoples tastes

Over the past decade or so, Brits have been consuming less and less salt, though quite often they don’t even realise it.  Now, however, it seems that government regulation of salt in mass-market processed food products has reached the point where it’s in poor taste.  In this context the phrase doesn’t refer to unseemly behaviour; [...]

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Summer Cooking and Parties

An Advertorial Post

Summer is most people’s favourite season.  Flowers bloom, the sun is out, days are longer and the weather usually holds the majority of the time for a good BBQ at the weekends.

More people tend to take the opportunity of the good weather to hold a party with family and friends, gathering people together [...]

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Young chef shows he has the right stuff

At a national contest was the venue for a student showing his culinary flair and expertise as the budding chef created the winning dessert. Steve Amos a Blackburn College student was teamed with Craig Lonsdale a chef from United Utilities Warrington where they were hailed champions at the Let’s Go British contest. Amos came through [...]

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Cheese is the new wedding cake of choice

Wedding cakes just ain’t what they used to be.  It seems that British newly-weds are turning more and more to tiers of cheese rather than tiers of flour and eggs and sugar.  One can have a wedding cake made up of a large variety of made-in-Britain cheeses, with all the accompanying flourishes and decorations of [...]

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Preparing for a Dinner Party

An Advertorial Feature

Hosting a dinner party can be stressful, and the key is often to prepare beforehand to take some of the pressure off.  Take a look at our online recipes, and these tips to get the preparation right so the evening runs smoothly.

Choosing the Right Courses

Unless you have a specific starter in mind, do [...]

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The humble Cornish pasty

Think of Cornwall and you immediately think pasty, something that has made this part of the country famous. Almost everyone enjoys a good pasty with its varied fillings and crusty pastry.

The true origin of the pasty is not known. It is a basic dish and finding its simple beginnings would be difficult. There are periods [...]

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Organic food continues to gain ground

Even with the economic crunch causing most people to pinch pennies on many fronts, including groceries, the British public in general seems to prefer organic food if they can get it.  The reasons are usually better taste and less pesticides, which of course are the main selling points of organic food anyway, but many people [...]

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