Food

Midlands-based, Aston Manor Cider, has been awarded four medals, including gold, at the acclaimed, International Cider Challenge 2015. The UK’s largest independent cider maker secured their best result to date at the highly-prized competition with four ciders from their portfolio being celebrated for their quality and taste.

For seven out of ten Brits, picnics are the staple of a great British summer and, to celebrate National Picnic Week, convenience food specialists Pork Farms has released the results of a survey targeting British picnic lovers. The findings revealed that the majority of Brits would choose to enjoy a summer picnic in the Lake District, eat pork pies with chutney and would invite Cheryl Cole and Boris Johnson to join in with their picnic fun.

In the unique historical setting of The Merchant Adventurers' Hall, York (the UK's 'Chocolate City'), Iain Burnett Highland Chocolatier added yet more accolades to the already burgeoning trophy cabinet.

It's the tipple that is arguably creating the biggest stir in the beer industry since the arrival of lager in the mid-1960s. In the last few years golden ale has not only become the UK's fastest growing beer variety but has been instrumental in helping change the beer tastes of the nation and convert lager drinkers to ale.

Seventy five real ales – plus a wide range of ciders, perries and continental beers – will be on offer at the 40th Wolverhampton CAMRA Beer Festival this month.

Food lovers were in Heaven as the UK’s biggest celebration of food and drink, transformed Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham. The city’s leading Michelin-star chefs led the proceedings which included new tasting theatres, pop-up restaurants, artisan producers and street food producers airing there mouth-watering wares.

Have you ever craved a curry or pined for a pizza, but worried that eating takeaway foods wasn’t really good for you? Well there’s now an opportunity to learn how to make ‘fakeaways’ – healthier versions of your favourite ‘takeways’.

A small Turkish harbour town is emerging as a genuine 'gastronomic capital' of coastal Turkey and is this year hosting he superb 'Lycian Food Festival' to showcase its talented team of chefs.

Set at the High Commission HQ for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in London, the Caribbean Food and Drink Conference & Expo 2015 was officially launched.

Beautiful British asparagus is only around for a few precious weeks.  So to make the most of this super home-grown veg, the chefs who cook in the lovely little pubs run in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and further afield by Peach have not only found a fantastic crop 'grown with love' near the Sussex coast, but also come up with a novel way of serving it.

Did you know the humble sandwich is the UK's #1 meal? A recent study* revealed that as well as sarnies being a firm favourite, the time we spend preparing our meals reduced to just 32 minutes in 2014 from 60 minutes in 1980.

People in the Midlands eat chicken an average of 130 times per year, a poll to mark Food Safety Week (the 18^th-24^th May) - has found. Residents are most likely to be found tucking into a traditional chicken roast dinner at home, with Indian style chicken curry and Mexican style chicken fajitas making up the top three.

For the first time, the Channel Island of Guernsey is holding a large scale food festival with the Guernsey International Food Festival from 18th-27th September. The ten day food bonanza will harness the island's delicious local produce and unique dishes in special dinners, tours and interactive events.

Brighton's award-winning Indian Summer restaurant is closing at 10.30pm on Sunday 24th May ... then relocating to larger premises at 70 East Street, Brighton BN1 1HQ and reopening on Thursday 28th May at 6pm.

Giggling Squid, the popular high growth family of Thai restaurants, has completed work on a new site in Billericay, Essex.