Wrights Food Group – maker of popular Wrights pies – will stage a series of celebratory events throughout 2016 to mark the family-run company’s 90th anniversary. Founded in 1926, Wrights has gone from John James Wright and his wife Elizabeth selling savoury pies made in their kitchen to friends and neighbours, to a £47m-turnover business employing more than 470 people at … [Read more...]
Getting into the spirit of bottle design
These days Gin lovers are a discerning lot; they don’t just seek the taste of their favourite tipple they want to be seduced by the bottle, too. We spoke to Bernard Gormley, Co Founder of brand development company Nude, who gives the inside track on what influences bottle design, from botanicals to big ideas and bartenders. Look along the shelves behind any bar and you will … [Read more...]
Great British Chefs & Peter’s Yard announce the launch of the Great British Cheese Awards
The new Great British Cheese Awards have been launched with the specific aim to recognise, promote and reward excellence in the artisan cheese industry and are organised by Great British Chefs (the UK’s fastest growing food website) and Peter’s Yard, whose crispbread was recently named as “the best biscuit for cheese out there”. The awards will celebrate the best of British … [Read more...]
Chefs unite to celebrate KP’s
Michel Roux Jr "Kitchen porters are worth their weight in gold. This idea of having a Kitchen Porter of the Year is absolutely fantastic." Find out more about Kitchen Porter of the Year 2016 here If you want to stay up to date with all things KP head over to The Kitchen Porters Club on Twitter … [Read more...]
Edinburgh Post Grads have bespoke Williams fridges for bespoke Residence Hall
Fridges are ‘critical to success’ as Edinburgh University creates ‘fantastic model’ of social integration When it comes to designing student residences for post grads, it must be recognised that they can have very different living patterns to undergraduates, so they don’t necessarily want the same kind of accommodation arrangements. The classic student residence is a cluster … [Read more...]