Well, it’s New Year’s Eve, hard to believe the year has gone by already. Which means a whole slew of new food books just got a whole lot closer. Here’s five I’m looking forward to being published: The Barbadian Rum Shop: The Other Watering Hole by Peter Laurie- not every book I feature on a [...]
Entries from December 31st, 2010
The Friday Five – Five to look forward to in 2011
December 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Cheese, Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Italian food, Make your own
My plea to small food businesses for 2011
December 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments · British favourites, Foodie gifts, Local food
Lets face it, 2011 doesn’t have a whole heap of good news at the start of it, and there’s no doubt it that it’s going to be tough for small businesses. Consumer confidence is going to be low and disposable income is going to be tighter than before. It’s going to take some serious work. [...]
Tags:small businesses
My food people of 2010
December 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Baking, Cooking with Kids, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Sweet treats
This has been my first full year of writing the blog, and one of the things I’ve loved about it most is the great people I’ve got to meet through it. Passionate about food and drink, they are the people that make the renaissance in British food real. Not to mention provided some great eating and [...]
Tags:Apple & Thyme·Bloggers for Haiti·Gower Cottage Brownies·Great British Bake Off·Great Food Leicestershire & Rutland·Janet Mohapi-Banks·Quirky Cookies
Stocking up the gift cupboard for less
December 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Grow your own, Kitchenwares, Offers & Discount Codes, Places to shop online
My mum is the organised sort and certainly when they lived in the UK then the post Christmas sales were her stocking up point for a big chunk of the year. That big cupboard space at the top of the wardrobe was like a Mary Poppins bag for gifts on hand for a lot of [...]
Tags:Boxing Day sales
What would I make my gift of the year for a food lover?
December 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Baking, Chocolate, Christmas foodie gifts, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Fruit & Veg, Grow your own, Ingredients, Kitchenwares, Make your own, Places to shop online, Preserving, Savoury gifts, Spanish food
Very hard to believe it’s very nearly the end of the year. Again. Unbelievable to me, I’ve made 220 posts so far for the year, and featured a whole range of gifts for every kind of occasion, every kind of food lover, every kind of budget, even every kind of age. So, what would I [...]
How did my food resolutions hold up for 2010?
December 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Baking, British favourites, Cookbooks, Cooking with Kids, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel, Places to eat
At the end of last year I made some food resolutions for 2010, and am amazed that the year has come to an end. Which means it’s probably time to remind myself what the heck I resolved to do, and how it went. 1. Waste less food. I think I have made some progress [...]
Tags:food resolutions
If you wonder where I’ve been hiding…
December 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Foodie gifts, Just for fun
Not much happening here on the blog, but you could find me writing new stuff over on English Mum. I’ve been writing about frugal foodie gifts, the sort of things that you still have time to do, even if your Christmas budget is looking very depleted. Head on over to English Mum for a whole [...]
The Five Things That Would Be Great to Find Santa Had Brought
December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts
So, I’ve given you the most awful 5 that people have been looking for, but the good news is that all is not lost, there are some great things being looked for as well! Here’s some good choices that I think someone will be happy to receive come Christmas Day! * Andrew Shorrocks Lancashire Bomb [...]
Tags:food foraging·great food gifts·Lancashire Bomb·The School of Artisan Food
The 5 oddest things people are looking for
December 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Just for fun, Naff presents
I’m always, in a fairly geeky and nosy way, really interested in the different ways that people end up here, and the search terms that they’ve used. Particularly the very odd ones. I mean it’s probably fairly obvious that a lot of people are going to get here searching for foodie gifts, but there’s always [...]
Tags:awful gifts·Cherry B
