Tuesday, 24 January 2012
That's Green: WJ King helps dig a well in India
That's Green: WJ King helps dig a well in India: Top regional brewer, Sussex-based WJ King, has joined forces with local charity Drop4Drop to help provide clean drinking water in a village ...
Monday, 23 January 2012
Domino’s Launches Meal Deal Wizard - An online tool to help deliver the best possible deal on pizza orders
To access the Meal Deal Wizard, customers simply need to visit www.dominos.co.uk, add the items they’d like to order to their basket and then proceed to the check out.
At the check out screen, customers click on the Meal Deal Wizard button and it will show the best available deal for their order and the savings that can be made. Customers can then chose their preferred deal at the touch of a button and confirm their order.
To find out more or to try the Meal Deal Wizard, log onto www.dominos.co.uk.
Customers in the UK can order online at www.dominos.co.uk and customers in the Republic of Ireland can order online at www.dominos.ie. In addition, mobile customers can order by downloading Domino’s free iPhone, iPad and Android apps.
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Food expert and top chef publishes new lab-inspired recipe book
Gurpareet Bains, celebrated chef and author of the No. 1 best-selling Indian Superfood, presents Indian Superspices: lab-inspired recipes to help with everyday ailments such as colds, PMT, hangovers and even insomnia.
His unique approach uses spices in medicinal quantities to alleviate stress, anxiety, allergies and a range of other ailments. It will also help manage weight loss and aid with detox.
Gurpareet already has a large fan base among A-list celebrities and Royalty. He is the creator of the ‘world’s healthiest meal’ and winner of the 2011 English Curry Awards’ ‘Chef of the Year’ title.
On his journey, Gurpareet reveals the amazing secrets of a spice that has been scientifically-proven by the US FDA in the treatment of asthma, diabetes, psoriasis and viral infections, as well as inhibition of cancer cell growth and improvement of the immune system. Gurpareet proves that Indian cuisine is robust enough to absorb medicinal quantities of spices and still deliver delicious meals.
This Ebook is an extraordinary collection of over 60 recipes augmented with compelling medical research and photography. Indian Superspices is a radical shakeup of the Indian kitchen: a fascinating voyage into virgin gastronomic territory.
Release date: Thursday January 26, 2012 - OUT NOW!
Available to buy online from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Indian-Superspices-ebook/dp/B006YY2B...
His unique approach uses spices in medicinal quantities to alleviate stress, anxiety, allergies and a range of other ailments. It will also help manage weight loss and aid with detox.
Gurpareet already has a large fan base among A-list celebrities and Royalty. He is the creator of the ‘world’s healthiest meal’ and winner of the 2011 English Curry Awards’ ‘Chef of the Year’ title.
On his journey, Gurpareet reveals the amazing secrets of a spice that has been scientifically-proven by the US FDA in the treatment of asthma, diabetes, psoriasis and viral infections, as well as inhibition of cancer cell growth and improvement of the immune system. Gurpareet proves that Indian cuisine is robust enough to absorb medicinal quantities of spices and still deliver delicious meals.
This Ebook is an extraordinary collection of over 60 recipes augmented with compelling medical research and photography. Indian Superspices is a radical shakeup of the Indian kitchen: a fascinating voyage into virgin gastronomic territory.
Release date: Thursday January 26, 2012 - OUT NOW!
Available to buy online from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Indian-Superspices-ebook/dp/B006YY2B...
That's Health: 23rd - 29th January 2012 is Food Allergy and Intol...
That's Health: 23rd - 29th January 2012 is Food Allergy and Intol...: Is it possible some of you suffer from food intolerance? Food Allergy and Intolerance Wee...
Monday, 16 January 2012
That's Christmas: Treat your mum to an extra special lunch this Moth...
That's Christmas: Treat your mum to an extra special lunch this Moth...: The award-winning Babylon Restaurant at The Roof Gardens in Kensington makes for the perfect setting for Mothers Day. A delicious 3 course m...
Chicago Town Pizza, your own winter warmer
Don’t fancy braving the cold, wet weather and wish you could treat you and your loved ones on a budget this weekend?
Then tuck in to a tasty Chicago Town pizza! They are guaranteed to keep you warm and fill you up. And, at a third of the price of a high street takeaway, your purse-strings will be satisfied too.
With toppings to suit every taste, you’ll be spoilt for choice…..
CHICAGO TOWN TAKEAWAY
Got all the family or a bunch of mates round? Well, Chicago Town TAKEAWAY is the ideal treat to keep in your freezer this Winter. From frozen to tasty in less than twenty minutes, this pizza is fully loaded and big enough to feed everyone. With fresh dough that rises in the oven and four different varieties, plus Limited Editions, why not get everyone on the sofa for a film and a slice of the action.
The Chicago Town TAKEAWAY has an RRP of £3.79 and is available from most major supermarkets.
CHICAGO TOWN DEEP DISH
Stuck for a quick and easy meal for the kids or want a meal for one? Well Deep Dish is the answer! With two tasty pizzas in each pack with mountains of fillings, Deep Dish is a winner every time. With five different varieties and the option to eat one and save the other for later, what more do you need? Plus – until the end of March there is an on pack promotion to collect a variety of Chicago Town branded Tuck In Stuff including iPod docks, pizza cutters and their famous Knorks!
The Chicago Town Deep Dish range has an RRP of £1.99 and is available from most major supermarkets.
CHICAGO TOWN EDGE TO EDGE
With never ending toppings that literally stretch from edge to edge, this pizza keeps on giving. With five different varieties and more toppings than any other competitor, it won’t be hard to find one to suit every taste.
The Chicago Town Edge To Edge has an RRP of £2.99 and is available from most major supermarkets.
With a topping and size to suit every mouth, the Chicago Town range is a sure fire winner for every freezer this Winter. For more information check out: www.chicagotown.com or why not join the Chicago Town Facebook page to get involved in giveaways and the latest news: www.facebook.com/ChicagoTown
Then tuck in to a tasty Chicago Town pizza! They are guaranteed to keep you warm and fill you up. And, at a third of the price of a high street takeaway, your purse-strings will be satisfied too.
With toppings to suit every taste, you’ll be spoilt for choice…..
CHICAGO TOWN TAKEAWAY
Got all the family or a bunch of mates round? Well, Chicago Town TAKEAWAY is the ideal treat to keep in your freezer this Winter. From frozen to tasty in less than twenty minutes, this pizza is fully loaded and big enough to feed everyone. With fresh dough that rises in the oven and four different varieties, plus Limited Editions, why not get everyone on the sofa for a film and a slice of the action.
The Chicago Town TAKEAWAY has an RRP of £3.79 and is available from most major supermarkets.
CHICAGO TOWN DEEP DISH
Stuck for a quick and easy meal for the kids or want a meal for one? Well Deep Dish is the answer! With two tasty pizzas in each pack with mountains of fillings, Deep Dish is a winner every time. With five different varieties and the option to eat one and save the other for later, what more do you need? Plus – until the end of March there is an on pack promotion to collect a variety of Chicago Town branded Tuck In Stuff including iPod docks, pizza cutters and their famous Knorks!
The Chicago Town Deep Dish range has an RRP of £1.99 and is available from most major supermarkets.
CHICAGO TOWN EDGE TO EDGE
With never ending toppings that literally stretch from edge to edge, this pizza keeps on giving. With five different varieties and more toppings than any other competitor, it won’t be hard to find one to suit every taste.
The Chicago Town Edge To Edge has an RRP of £2.99 and is available from most major supermarkets.
With a topping and size to suit every mouth, the Chicago Town range is a sure fire winner for every freezer this Winter. For more information check out: www.chicagotown.com or why not join the Chicago Town Facebook page to get involved in giveaways and the latest news: www.facebook.com/ChicagoTown
That's Books: Eat London
That's Books: Eat London: “2012 is rather an important year for London and the UK as we will be welcoming the world to our cities, so it is just as well that there ha...
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Everything's coming up Rosé!
What is it about pink champagne which makes it so special? Most people love champagne, and in particular, rosé, but have you ever considered why? Champagne Gosset, the oldest wine house in Champagne, Aÿ 1584, produces two rosés, Grand Rosé (non vintage) and Celebris Rosé (vintage), its prestige cuvée. Let’s take a look at what is so special about rosé champagne.
Why choose rosé? For a start it looks pretty in the glass and there are numerous shades of pink, ranging from the slight hint of a tint, through to strikingly dark, almost mauve in tone. Maybe rosé is particularly popular with lovers due to the colour’s associations with blushing?
Perhaps it is the depth of flavour, often reminiscent of fresh strawberries, raspberries or cherries? Brut rosé can be just as dry as its white counterpart; it is fruitier but just as good, and, by some, considered even better.
How is it made? There are two ways of producing rosé champagne; by blending in a small proportion of still red wine, or by the saignée (or ‘bleeding’) method, where the wine is simply allowed to have more contact with the red grape skins than in normal champagne production. The former method is more usual, and that is the method used by Champagne Gosset; a blend of the finest red wine from the region is added to the white champagne to produce the rosé.
Champagne Gosset’s rosés are both particularly special and ideal for all celebrations, from weddings and anniversaries, to Valentine’s Day, when sales of rosé champagnes and sparking wines tend to soar. Rosé champagne is made by blending juice from the Pinot Noir grape to the white grape juice. In the case of Grand Rosé, the balance is 35 per cent Pinot Noir, with 58 per cent Chardonnay and the remaining 7 per cent red wine made of Grand Cru Pinot Noir of the region (from the local villages of Bouzy and Ambonnay).
In the glass, Grand Rosé is a delicate pale salmon-pink, but on the nose a veritable ‘explosion’ of strawberries – fresh and the finest strawberry jam. In the mouth, it is well balanced with a voluptuous strawberry flavour giving a hint of sweetness. Retailing for around £55 a bottle, a bottle of Grand Rosé makes a very special Valentine’s gift.
Champagne Gosset Celebris 2003 Rosé Extra Brut is 68 per cent Chardonnay and 32 per cent Pinot Noir Grand Cru (also including 7 per cent red wines from Ambonnay and Bouzy). It is very dry but deliciously fruity and true to the character of all Gosset champagnes, there is no malolactic fermentation in the production process. It has a delicate, luminous pale pink hue and displays a spectacular constant stream of thousands of tiny bubbles. On the nose it is more complex than the Grand Rosé, giving fresh, pure scents of freshly picked red berry fruits, with floral notes.
A burst of rose petal jam and red berry coulis titillate the taste buds, developing into a full, rounded flavour, leaving a soothing aftertaste, with notes of aniseed and sweet liquorice, and a persistent hint of vanilla. Retailing at around £120 a bottle, Champagne Gosset Celebris 2003 Rosé is perfect for that very special occasion (or person).
Champagne Gosset is available from most independent fine wine shops and retailers including Berry Bros, Fortnum & Mason, Selfridges, Harrods and Harvey Nichols. It is distributed in the UK exclusively by McKinley Vintners (Tel: 020 7928 7300 or visit http://www.mckinleyvintners.co.uk )
http://www.champagne-gosset.com
Perhaps it is the depth of flavour, often reminiscent of fresh strawberries, raspberries or cherries? Brut rosé can be just as dry as its white counterpart; it is fruitier but just as good, and, by some, considered even better.
How is it made? There are two ways of producing rosé champagne; by blending in a small proportion of still red wine, or by the saignée (or ‘bleeding’) method, where the wine is simply allowed to have more contact with the red grape skins than in normal champagne production. The former method is more usual, and that is the method used by Champagne Gosset; a blend of the finest red wine from the region is added to the white champagne to produce the rosé.
Champagne Gosset’s rosés are both particularly special and ideal for all celebrations, from weddings and anniversaries, to Valentine’s Day, when sales of rosé champagnes and sparking wines tend to soar. Rosé champagne is made by blending juice from the Pinot Noir grape to the white grape juice. In the case of Grand Rosé, the balance is 35 per cent Pinot Noir, with 58 per cent Chardonnay and the remaining 7 per cent red wine made of Grand Cru Pinot Noir of the region (from the local villages of Bouzy and Ambonnay).
In the glass, Grand Rosé is a delicate pale salmon-pink, but on the nose a veritable ‘explosion’ of strawberries – fresh and the finest strawberry jam. In the mouth, it is well balanced with a voluptuous strawberry flavour giving a hint of sweetness. Retailing for around £55 a bottle, a bottle of Grand Rosé makes a very special Valentine’s gift.
Champagne Gosset Celebris 2003 Rosé Extra Brut is 68 per cent Chardonnay and 32 per cent Pinot Noir Grand Cru (also including 7 per cent red wines from Ambonnay and Bouzy). It is very dry but deliciously fruity and true to the character of all Gosset champagnes, there is no malolactic fermentation in the production process. It has a delicate, luminous pale pink hue and displays a spectacular constant stream of thousands of tiny bubbles. On the nose it is more complex than the Grand Rosé, giving fresh, pure scents of freshly picked red berry fruits, with floral notes.
A burst of rose petal jam and red berry coulis titillate the taste buds, developing into a full, rounded flavour, leaving a soothing aftertaste, with notes of aniseed and sweet liquorice, and a persistent hint of vanilla. Retailing at around £120 a bottle, Champagne Gosset Celebris 2003 Rosé is perfect for that very special occasion (or person).
Champagne Gosset is available from most independent fine wine shops and retailers including Berry Bros, Fortnum & Mason, Selfridges, Harrods and Harvey Nichols. It is distributed in the UK exclusively by McKinley Vintners (Tel: 020 7928 7300 or visit http://www.mckinleyvintners.co.uk )
http://www.champagne-gosset.com
Worried About Eating Processed Meat? Try Redwood's Vegideli Sausages And 'Bacon' Instead.
There is an alternative.
Award-winning ethical food firm The Redwood Wholefood Company produces tasty meat-free sausages and meat-free ‘bacon’ from 100% natural, plant-based ingredients.
Redwood sausages and ‘bacon’ are free too from egg, dairy, lactose, cholesterol, hydrogenated fats, artificial colours/preservatives and GMOs.
You’ll find them in good health food stores nationwide.
To find out more about Redwood, the UK’s most ethical vegetarian foods company according to consumer handbook The Good Shopping Guide, or to shop online, go to www.redwoodfoods.co.uk.
Judges Queue Up To Taste Test 'FreeFrom' Foods!
With judging sessions for this year’s FreeFrom Food Awards set for the first week in February, expert ‘freefrom’ judges are queuing up to taste-test this year’s entries into 16 categories of freefrom foods.
Judges come from the professional food world (manufacturers, chefs and cookery writers) and from the medical world (dietitians and nutritionists) but also include allergy sufferers and coeliacs – plus some ‘normal’ food enthusiasts to benchmark the freefrom foods against their non-freefrom equivalents. This year judging ranks will also be swelled by a number of freefrom and gluten-free bloggers, all experts in tracking down new and tasty freefrom foods to write about on their blogs.
Says Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, editor of www.FoodsMatter.com who chairs the judging sessions: "We have some really exciting entries this year and are particularly pleased to see that previously slender categories, such as FreeFrom Ready Meals, are positively bulging.
"We are also very much looking forward to tasting the offerings in our new Raw Food and Superfood category – and, of course, in our ever popular gluten-free beer category. We never have any problems recruiting judges for that one!"
A shortlist of successful entries will be published on March 1st and the winners, including the winner of the FAIR trophy of the Best FreeFrom Food 2012 (won last year by Doves Farm for their gluten-free self raising flour blend) will be announced and presented with their certificates at an invitation-only party in West India Dock on April 17th.
All details on the awards are to be found on the Freefrom Food Award site www.freefromfoodawards.co.uk/index.html
Twitter: @FFFoodAwards
Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/wwwfoodsmattercom/230382425337
Sponsors of the FreeFromFoodAwards 2012 include:
Asda (2 categories), Delamere Dairy, Fria Gluten Free, Genius Gluten Free, Genon Laboratories , Hale & Hearty, Juvela, Livwell, Mrs Crimbles, Produced in Italy, Pure Dairy Free, Swedish Glace, Tesco (3 categories)
Judges come from the professional food world (manufacturers, chefs and cookery writers) and from the medical world (dietitians and nutritionists) but also include allergy sufferers and coeliacs – plus some ‘normal’ food enthusiasts to benchmark the freefrom foods against their non-freefrom equivalents. This year judging ranks will also be swelled by a number of freefrom and gluten-free bloggers, all experts in tracking down new and tasty freefrom foods to write about on their blogs.
Says Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, editor of www.FoodsMatter.com who chairs the judging sessions: "We have some really exciting entries this year and are particularly pleased to see that previously slender categories, such as FreeFrom Ready Meals, are positively bulging.
"We are also very much looking forward to tasting the offerings in our new Raw Food and Superfood category – and, of course, in our ever popular gluten-free beer category. We never have any problems recruiting judges for that one!"
A shortlist of successful entries will be published on March 1st and the winners, including the winner of the FAIR trophy of the Best FreeFrom Food 2012 (won last year by Doves Farm for their gluten-free self raising flour blend) will be announced and presented with their certificates at an invitation-only party in West India Dock on April 17th.
All details on the awards are to be found on the Freefrom Food Award site www.freefromfoodawards.co.uk/index.html
Twitter: @FFFoodAwards
Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/wwwfoodsmattercom/230382425337
Sponsors of the FreeFromFoodAwards 2012 include:
Asda (2 categories), Delamere Dairy, Fria Gluten Free, Genius Gluten Free, Genon Laboratories , Hale & Hearty, Juvela, Livwell, Mrs Crimbles, Produced in Italy, Pure Dairy Free, Swedish Glace, Tesco (3 categories)
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