News Archive

• Mayor Celebrates Wirral Farmers Market Success

  20th Feb 2008

  2 February 2008 Members of Wirral Farmers’ Market, friends, partners and supporters all gathered for a special Mayoral celebration in honour of the market. The reception was held to mark the fact that the market won ‘Best in the UK’ in BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards. In a change to the usual reception, held at the town hall in Wallasey, producers Barbara of Neston and...more

  
  

• Awards for 80-year-old bangers

  20th Feb 2008

  Paul R Taylor 20/ 2/2008 A SECRET 80-year-old recipe and decades of butchery know-how have combined to produce the finest pork sausage in the region. Bolton butcher brothers Chris and Geoff Unsworth - who run Andrews Continental Delicacies in Salford - won the pork sausage of the year award from North West Fine Foods. The sausages, which are sold everywhere from Harvey Nicks to...more

  
  

• Spice aficionados gear up to cope with the “Delia Effect”

  15th Feb 2008

  15 February Spices and seasonings experts Seasoned Pioneers are preparing for the “Delia Effect” after Delia Smith is using a selection of their products to feature in her new book ‘How to Cheat at Cooking’. The book is for people who don't want to cook, think they can't cook or simply don't have the time to cook. On sale from February 15 th , the book includes...more

  
  

• Nantwich Cheese Show set for another record-breaking year

  12th Feb 2008

  12 February 2008 The Nantwich International Cheese Show 2008 is set to be the biggest and best event yet, after increasing its capacity to meet competitor and exhibitor demand. The cheese industry's premier competition will take place in a record-breaking 58,000 sq ft marquee. New suspended cassette flooring and air conditioning will ensure that the Show – which runs from 29 to 30 July -...more

  
  

• Cooking made compulsory

  24th Jan 2008

  The Foundation welcomes the announcement from Rt. Hon. Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for for Children, Schools and Families, about the teaching and learning of food becoming compulsory in secondary schools throughout England. What does this mean? 1) From September 2008 all pupils in secondary schools will have the entitlement to learn how to cook through the Licence to Cook programme. This...more

  
  

• Is this the end of cheap food?

  20th Jan 2008

  Sunday January 20, 2008 The Observer Outside a Co-op supermarket in Edinburgh on Friday, I met three sisters, all doing their shopping for this weekend. In their baskets were tins, mainly - Ambrosia creamed rice and minted peas. They were peering at stickers and examining labels with the look of hardened sceptics. 'Terrible, just terrible,' said Betty Pryde, at 82 the eldest of the...more

  
  

• The simpler the better for food labelling, says study

  17th Jan 2008

  17/01/2008 Simple front-of-pack nutritional labelling and endorsement by health organisations are most efficient in informing consumers, according to a new Unilever study. Scientists studied consumer friendliness and the ability to differentiate between healthy and less healthy option using eight different nutrition labels on 2,406 men and women from the UK, Germany, Italy and the...more

  
  

• Internet traceability system launched for food processors

  17th Jan 2008

  17/01/2008 An internet-based interface that allows food processors to see which country every ingredient has come from and each process a product goes through in the factory is set to significantly overhaul food chain traceability. The Northern Ireland-based venture TraceAssured launched its online traceability initiative last week, promising to cut out many of the time-consuming...more

  
  

• Plimsoll predicts exciting activity in UK food sector

  16th Jan 2008

  16/01/2008 Most of the UK food manufacturing sector is well equipped to deal with anticipated economic fall-out this year, according to a new analysis from Plimsoll Publishing, with a flurry of mergers and acquisitons on the cards. Sky-high food commodity prices throughout the world (particularly for grains, but with a trickle down effect to meat and dairy because of grains' use in animal...more

  
  

• Battery farm eggs banned from schools and care homes

  12th Jan 2008

  Jan 12 2008 EGGS from battery hens will be banned from dozens of Merseyside schools, care homes and canteens. The move to free range eggs, which will affect all kitchens in council- owned buildings in Wirral, will cost taxpayers £5,000. ...more