No, really! I know it’s not Ludlow or Abergavenney, but I love Leicester, particularly the market, which is a great traditional food market. This is not a chi chi farmers market, this is your “traditional” fruit and veg done really well, and reflecting Leicester’s position as the first UK city with no overall ethnic majority. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Local food'
Come to Leicester!
May 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Eating with kids, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel, Fruit & Veg, Local food, Places to eat
More than leeks and daffs
March 1st, 2011 · 2 Comments · BBQs, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel, Honey & Jam, Kitchenwares, Local food, Meat treats, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts, Spirits, Sweet treats
How could I forget? Today is St David’s Day, which will see Dr T come over all nostalgic for his homeland. We’ll have a bit of Bryn Terfel on, the legend of Gelert will be told, and no doubt a pint or two of Dark will be drunk. That said, there are a few other [...]
Tags:Aerona·Black Mountain Smokery·Local food·Slade Farm Organics·tea towels·Welsh food
Shame the local liars
February 28th, 2011 · No Comments · British favourites, Foodie things to do, Local food
This report made me really mad: a fifth of foods labelled “local” are making the claim falsely. The words band and wagon come to mind, and those companies and businesses that have been doing this really ought to be named and shamed. I mean can you imagine, there you are trying to do the right [...]
Tags:charlatans·Local food
Hampers unhampered by bad taste
November 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, French food, Ingredients, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts, Spanish food
Apologies to those who were reading my posts last year, as I did write something similar after the horror of finding the Kids Treat frozen food hamper, but hopefully a year on, a whole heap of other interesting options have materialised to write about. The hampers I love are those that enable you to send [...]
Tags:Hampers·Local food
Getting ready for Christmas in the East Midlands
November 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Ingredients, Local food, Meat treats, Places to shop online
I thought it was time to give a quick mention to some of the great food companies and farm shops here on the doorstep of FGH Towers, particularly as we, and they, are gearing up for Christmas. First up would be W E Botterill and Son in Croxton Kerrial. It must be that eerily quiet [...]
Tags:Christmas meat·Local food·Melton Mowbray pork pie·small producers
Are farm shops cheaper?
October 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments · British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Fairtrade food, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Local food, Make your own, Places to shop online
Really interesting piece over on BigBarn, about whether or not farm shops are cheaper than your local supermarket. There’s a bit of a split emerging in the comments, between “yes they are” and the “no” camp. And, to be honest, I’ve seen both sides of that argument in different farm shops locally. There’s a very [...]
Tags:farm shops·Local food
What I’d like to be taking to China
September 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · British favourites, Cheese, Chinese Food, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel
I’m off on a trip for the day job to China, which I’m really looking forward to. Love Chinese food and hoping to get some time out to try and get to eat some. But there does come a point in a trip where I do suddenly crave a taste of home. On a trip [...]
Tags:British cheese·Foodie gifts·Local food·Sparkenhoe Red Leicester·taste of home
Belvoir Buzz or Manor House Honey?
August 24th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Foodie gifts, Honey & Jam
Our honey has gone on sale in our village shop today, so pretty low on food miles as the hive is approximately 100 metres from the shop as the crow, or bee flies. It’s also gone in with a bit of a market research question, as the beekeepers can’t agree on a brand name! Do [...]
Tags:honey·Local food
You’re going to uni. Now what? A foodie perspective
August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie gadgets, Foodie gifts, Ingredients
A’level results are out and so a whole new batch of students will be heading off into the world, ready to fend for themselves and cook their own dinners. So, what kind of foodie student are you dispatching, or being dispatched, to uni and what do they need to see them on their way? Depends on [...]
Tags:allotments·cookery courses·cooking for beginners·Grow your own·Local food·student cooking
The Friday Five – The state of British Food
August 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Food Writing, Foodie gifts, French food, Friday Five
One of the great joys of being in France was the daily choice of which market to go to, and then to see great looking food to choose from, from small producers, local producers, French producers. Which made us debate how we managed to loose that in the UK. I mean, the French had rationing [...]
Tags:British favourites·food history·food markets·Local food
