NEWS
RUMWELL FARM SHOP PRODUCERS
TASTING DAY Saturday 27th October, 9am til 1pm. With Christmas just around the corner we foodies will all be thinking about planning our festive parties and meals. Along with many others, Rumwell Farm Shop near Taunton are giving us the chance to try before we buy with a tasting day. They are offering plenty of farm shop burgers, sausages, christmas puddings, brandy butter and christmas cakes while many
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producers from the surrounding areas will be joining the day and offering their tasters too. There’s even chances to win foodie prizes!
www.rumwellfarmshop.com or call 01823 461599
GREAT BRITISH FOOD CELEBRATIONS AT DARTMOUTH FOOD FESTIVAL
Dartmouth Food Festival celebrates its 10th birthday this October 26th to 28th and the theme for this Jubilee and Olympic year is Great British Food. This year see world class chefs and wine connoisseurs including Mitch Tonks, Mark Hix, James Tanner, Fiona Beckett, Giles Coren, Henry Dimbleby, Thomasina Miers, Holly Jones, David Jones, Richard Bertinet, Tom Parker Bowles, Joyce Molyneux, Matthew Fort, Jane Baxter, Christine Smallwood, Steve Lamb (River Cottage), Mark Puckey (Rick Stein’s Food Academy), Serin Aubrey and Monty Halls
for cookery demonstrations and discussions. There’s also opportunity to join the comedy and curry making evening. Marquees overlooking the River Dart will specialise in seafood together with over a hundred different South West food and drink stalls in the Old Market Square. The festival kicks off with the Opening Night on October 25th with a Pie and Puds Street Party Evening.
www.dartmouthfoodfestival.com or contact David Jones, Food Festival Chairman on 01803 752943
GET COOKING FOR CHARITY
Bristol based Devilled Egg Kitchen Academy has teamed up with Bristol University to encourage students and budding cooks to compete to raise money for charity. The top ten students selected will compete in four heats throughout November to raise money for the Bristol Urological Institute, a charity that supports prostate cancer research. Each round will be judged by Barbora Steiss of the Devilled Egg and other chefs from the
South West and their aim is to encourage young students to test their skills. Throughout November see these young and budding chefs compete at one of many open events, watch them create, pick up tips, try tasters and help raise money for charity in the process. To find out more about the coming events see
www.thedevilledegg.com or call 0117 973 2823
WINNERS OF GREAT TASTE AWARDS 2012 REVEALED
Producers across the South West are celebrating as the results of the Great Taste Awards have been announced. The scheme, run by The Guild of Fine Food, is recognised by both producers and consumers, as a sign of quality. A product that displays the Great Taste logo has fought its way through many rounds of judging by over 350 of the UK’s most professional, dedicated and knowledgeable judges! Shining brightly among the winners is a passion fruit curd from The Bay Tree Food Company in Somerset, seen here collecting their award. For a full list of winners please visit
www.greattasteawards.co.uk
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DORSET AWARDS The proprietors and staff of Lagan Farm Shop at Orchard Park Garden Centre are celebrating winning the Best Farm Shop prize in the 2012 Taste of Dorset Awards just a year after their success as Best Meat producer in 2011. The Farm Shop focuses on local produce, something the team believes to be vital. Farm Shop Supervisor Gemma Read said “One of the benefits of being an independent retailer is that we are able to build relationships with our customers, talking with them to find out what they would like to see on our shelves and using that knowledge to seek out the producers, who are able to provide this. Much of our produce is grown within a few miles of Gillingham. Cheese, butter, cereals, milk, cream, flour, dressings, honey, tea and coffee, biscuits and cake all come from Dorset producers and suppliers.” Lagan Farms meat is the speciality and mainstay of the Farm Shop. The multi award winning Lagan herd was established at Park Farm, Gillingham nearly 20 years ago and offers succulent and full flavoured meat. The meat counter is complimented by home grown lamb, pork, game and chicken all from local farms. “Farm Shops are a vital part of the rural community,” says Richard. “We have almost everything you might need and we hope that by offering a service which is accessible, convenient and maintains a high standard of quality, true local outlets such as Lagan Farm Shop will continue to flourish and grow.”
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