The Artisan Meat Company has started stocking a fantastic new ethical chocolate made by Cheshire Chocolatier, Lee Molloy-Sherratt, under the Pure Origin banner. The range goes from white chocolate made from 31% Dominican Republic cacao through milk chocolate made from 44% Grenada cacao and dark chocolate made from 70% Madagascar cacao, the worlds finest beans, [...]
Nigella Lawson, author, arrived in Knutsford yesterday to sign copies of her latest offering Kitchen: Recipes From The Heart of the Home, published by Random House. Hundreds of fans braved the freezing weather, forming a queue that stretched all around the interior of Waterstones and finishing outside on King Street. Everyone was excited about the [...]
Celebrity Chef and local resident Dave Mooney has been chosen to demonstrate to over 1000 residents of Greater Manchester how to use up left over food and create quick, healthy and nutritious meals for all the family. Dave will be hosting the Love Food Hate Waste demonstrations in over 10 locations throughout the region and [...]
Teachers went back to the classroom to learn about the Love Food, Hate Waste campaign. Hosted by Let’s Get Cooking – a national network of cooking clubs for children, families and their communities – teachers and cooking-club supervisors got to grips with Cheshire East Council’s award-winning campaign in the form of a lesson on food [...]
Italian mama’s homemade chutney solves taste dilemma for Cheshire deli restaurant. An Italian restaurateur and his wife who could not find suitable chutneys as an accompaniment for the cheese platters at their authentic eatery in Knutsford found the perfect solution – they decided to make their own. Now Raffaele “Lello” Merolle from Naples and his [...]
As I pulled up in the car park outside the Artisan Meat Company farm shop at Cherry Tree Farm in Adlington some lovely fat chickens happily pecking away outside greeted me. Not far behind the chickens was one half of the very friendly and welcoming Artisan Partnership, Paul. On my first visit to the shop [...]
Tuck into sticky toffee pudding and don’t worry about your waistline! Forget about trying to squeeze into that gorgeous little black dress, as the colder weather approaches most of us are so looking forward to tucking into some delicious comfort food packed full of delectable calories! But as the expression goes – here’s a way [...]
Another successful year for the regional foodie event at Tatton. Well, it’s been a while since I visited the Northwest Food Lovers Festival at Tatton Park, admittedly I had no idea about the scale of the event until I passed through the main entrance. I suppose having to park some distance away from the venue [...]
An Italian restaurant in Knutsford has started offering gourmet pizza by the slice, making its top-notch food available for the price of a pasty.
Now, if you have never been there before, you would probably mistake the Duke of Portland for one those newly re-branded non-gastro chain pubs, DON’T! Rather enjoy the important differences between quality food and service over sneaky corporate cloaking. There is great confusion out there at the moment with mega operator-breweries rebranding their country boozers [...]
