There’s only one place for chocoholics this week and that’s York, birthplace of the KitKat, Smarties and Terry’s Chocolate Orange, and Britain’s home of chocolate. During National Chocolate Week (13-19 October), this already sweet city will be in chocolate overdrive enabling visitors to eat, drink, make and learn about more chocolate than ever, as well […]
Category: Dairy Products
Yorkshire Family's Ice Cream Cool Flavours Win Awards
A real success story is the family business Yummy Yorkshire a company that provides locally sourced food. They are continuing to grow in the heady world of ice cream, along the way picking up an ever increasing number of awards Louise and Jeremy Holmes run the family business out of their Pennines dairy farm. So […]
Successful Ian Taylor is Fodder Top Seller with his Free Range Eggs
Ian Taylor is ready to celebrate amazing success with his free range eggs that were part of his awarding-winning shop at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate at it’s opening nearly 5 years earlier. In turn, Fodder has given a huge boost to Ian’s business, which began when he was a teenager selling eggs from […]
Get a real taste of West Yorkshire on the 26th June
You have been cordially invited by Yorkshire Food Finder on Wednesday 26th June to join them on a fantastic bespoke food trail. This will take you on an amazing journey during which you will discover some of the leading food producers from West Yorkshire. The trail will begin at The Spiced Pear, the newly launched […]
Cheese wedding cake anyone?
The multi tiered and elaborately decorated fruit cake is the traditional feature of a wedding celebration, and has been for decades. Now, however, those in the industry are reporting a burgeoning trend for an altogether different type of wedding cake, one that is entirely made from cheese. Hundreds of wedding albums are graces with photos […]
Comté shouldn't just be kept for a cheese board
Comté cheese, which originates from from the Massif du Jura, is best known as the cheese that gives you an encounter with multiple and complex flavours every time you take a bite. In total there are 83 natural flavours with are grouped into 6 aromatic and distinct families; fruit, milk, plant, animal, spice and roasted. […]
Cheddar cheese sales on the up and up
Cheese may not seem like a big industry, or a large part of the yearly grocery budget, but Cheddar is making some interesting sales. As one of the largest producer of cheese and other dairy products, the company has seen an increased turnover rate over the past years, and now sees a £15.1 million annual […]
Exeter gears up for its 10th anniversary food festival
The Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink will be celebrating its 10th birthday this year, and their anniversary event will be full to bursting with the best chefs, producers, food and drink from the region. Those visiting the festival, which is being held between the 26th-28th April at Northernhay Gardens in Exeter, will […]
Swaledale Cheese Company goes from strength to strength after family tragedy
For the Richmond cheese making siblings Sam and Louise Reed, it has been a challenging and emotional year. In February of last year, their mother, Mandy Reed, the Swaledale Cheese legend, suddenly died at 47 due to a freezing burst of weather. This tragedy followed in the wake of their father David’s death in 2005, […]
Have a very clotted Christmas courtesy of Trewithen Dairy
Following their highly successful rebranding this year, the Trewithen Dairy from Cornwall is recommending that we all have a white Christmas in the kitchen this year. The Dairy has been working with the chef at Cornwall’s stylish St Moritz Hotel & Spa, one of the many customers of Trewithen, to create a whole new set […]