United Kingdom Food News

Hartlepool College of Further Education, recently subject of a move to a new £53million state-of-the-art campus, has joined the NSA F & D as a specialist provider of development training and coaching for the UK’s food manufacturing industry.

GEA Process Engineering has received an order for building the world’s largest dairy spray dryer from Fonterra in New Zealand. The order is one of the largest ever for GEA Process Engineering amounting to more than EUR 70 million.

The best kept supermarket secret reveals how consumers can save up to £20 on their next grocery shop at Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Ocado

This weekend thousands of visitors will be heading to Ayr for the Scottish Grand National Festival at Ayr Racecourse. To mark the occasion chef Mafiz Ali at Ayr Spice Indian Restaurant in Minishant, Ayrshire, Scotland has prepared two special menus.

France’s ban on battery farming has doubled egg prices and put suppliers out of business.

MY Food is launching a new menu plan option for 2012, Working Week. With the nation working longer hours and little time to think about their health, MY Food has created the perfect solution.

It is well known that there are three things that ensure coffee trees produce the best beans, they must be grown at high altitude, have a tropical climate and a rich soil.

HEART UK ambassador and celebrity chef to lace up and support HEART UK ahead of the London Marathon, which takes place on April 22.

Cornish brewery Skinner’s have created a new beer to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Our survey of over 6,000 irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) sufferers show that Monday is the worst day for symptoms. Could Sunday lunch be to blame?

The Arrival Of High Quality Retro Classic Food Has Customers Flocking To Award Winning Alderley Edge Hotel

MorePeople's commitment to the promotion of the food and land based sectors as great places to build a career were highlighted again recently with another graduate event held at the end of 2011.

The Goring Hotel in London has created an exciting new cocktail to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The twist – guests get to keep the stunning Swarovski crystal glass it is served in.

New report ‘Canned Fish and Seafood Market in Peru to 2013’ now available from Seafood Industry Research.

Academy member Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is launching a major awareness campaign aimed at food and drink manufacturers and designed to showcase the university’s food industry training expertise.

This weekend marks the Bangladeshi New Year - Poyela Boishakh - and to celebrate the festival, Ayr Spice Restaurant in Ayrshire, Scotland has prepared a special menu, featuring several of the world-famous signature dishes of head chef Mafiz Ali.

REUNIPECHE, the foremost player in the fishing sector on Réunion island (France’s overseas département in the Indian Ocean), will take part in the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels (Belgium) from 24 to 26 April 2012.

Tasty Careers is a proven new programme designed to showcase careers in your business to the new generation and built around the Tasty Careers website – www.tastycareers.org.uk.

MorePeople were delighted to help promote the profile of UK horticulture as a great industry to build a career in by sponsoring one of the industry's premier events aimed at boosting the image of the sector to its 'younger' members.

The Total Diet Food service launches this week with a series of events and special offers. You will find us out and about, throughout Kensington, Chelsea, Mayfair and Westminster over the next few weeks, offering tasters and special offers to all.

Universities are being invited to compete to partner the UK food and drink industry in developing a dedicated new food and drink engineering degree designed to produce a ready flow of graduates with in-demand food and drink engineering skills.

One of Scotland’s most distinctive malt whiskies is to be relaunched in 2013 as a premium brand aimed at aspirational connoisseurs around the world.

Theo Paphitis partnered with Ryman's recently invited his 'Small Business Sunday" SBS winners to an inaugural event where they could meet each other and meet the famous dragon himself. Included in this list were three Herefordshire businesses.

Celebrity TV chef Mafiz Ali is looking forward to welcoming discerning diners to his haute cuisine Indian Restaurant in Minishant, Ayrshire, Scotland this weekend, and has concocted a delicious special Easter menu in anticipation.

An alternative solution to spending a fortune in classy restaurants. Why not try dining solutions direct, gourmet food in your home.

Family-owned and run boutique hotel Stanwell House in Ltmington, on the southern tip of the New Forest in Hampshire, is staging a decadent 'Laurent-Perrier' black tie dinner on Thursday 12 April.

Brigitte Lurton is a wholesaler specialising in wines from the French terroir that are sold under the BRIGITTE LURTON brand.

The town of South Molton in Devon is playing a leading role in the latest trend for all things ‘Vintage’ with a growing reputation as a centre for vintage collectables. The latest addition is a new business called Rosemary’s Vintage Teas.

Come and join the party of local food and drink; a week long celebration in the quaintest Hampshire village by the South Coast.

Tayto Titanic Lightly Salted Potato Crisps Just Launched by RMSTitanic100.Co.Uk

The Food and Drink Federation, Improve and the National Skills Academy for Food and Drink are delighted to announce a new initiative which we believe will revolutionise the delivery of engineering into the UK food and drink manufacturing industry.

A Cornish bakery has undergone a makeover which has resulted in a huge increase in sales and growth to the team dispite the infamous #PastyTax

Doner Kebab is a nutritionally sound gourmet food experience and can be consumed day and night. With a strong modern brand and the promotion of healthy fresh nutritious ingredients, Doner Kebab can only continue to grow and succeed.

You may be forgiven for thinking that decaffeinated coffee is a fairly new innovation, but the first decaf cup of coffee was actually produced commercially way back in 1903!

Two new sales representatives covering Somerset and Cornwall join Skinner's Brewery as it expands.

Exosect CEO, Martin Brown, identifies Bio-Conventional as an emerging sector within the crop protection industry

www.Afternoon-Tea-Edinburgh.com is a new website that has been launched to review all the best afternoons tea in Edinburgh, Scotland.

When it comes to the ultimate Easter treat, The Cavendish London has it all wrapped up. Today, one of London’s most stylish hotels has revealed the UK’s first edible chocolate hotel room.

Delicious mouth-watering produce and traditional crafts will be on offer this weekend (31 March-1 April) as part of a special promotion of New Forest farm shops.

Which Wich founder Jeff Sinelli had the dream of a better sandwich shop where customers come up with the sandwich of their dreams. From this Sinelli designed the Which Wich bag on which customers check off exactly what they want on their sandwiches.

This April, five World Master Chefs are joining forces to embark on a UK tour, creating a one-off series of exclusive fine dining feasts for food lovers from Marlow to Maldon.

Elephant Atta flour, the number one Chapatti flour brand in the UK has launched a new campaign aimed at mothers and women to tribute their dedication to their families and to the brand.

As sales of the ubiquitous cupcake continue to flourish, British Baker magazine has launched the search to find Britain’s best cupcake baker 2012.

A Mauritian wins Masterchef? Not quite a coincidence. Britain gets cooking and looks for new flavours. The IGD reports that more than four in 10 (42%) UK shoppers do more cooking from scratch, more than double the level in 2008(19%).

Eden Springs have agreed to supply handy bottled water to Macmillan Cancer Support’s 2012 Challenge Event participants in a major step in their UK-wide charity water initiative.

If the first thing you reach for in the morning is your trusted cup of coffee you may not have too much to feel guilty about when looking at how the health benefits of coffee.

Mealsinfields.co.uk launches national directory of farm shops and high street specialists at Food and Drink Expo NEC Birmingham, 25 to 27 March 2012, Stand A113, Hall 6.

Packington Free Range’s cockerel is a succulent and delicious alternative Easter roast that will feed the whole family.

Great Glen Game Ltd based in the Highlands of Scotland will showcase their range of Wild Venison Products at the Food & Drink Expo at Birmingham’s NEC, from the 25th - 27th March 2012.

Peter Barham looks at what gives food its flavour at the Science Café on Wednesday, 21 March at 7.30pm at the Dylan Thomas Centre.