Tesco backs 'country of origin' meat drive
Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:01:47 GMT
The UK's biggest retailer Tesco today backed the Conservatives' campaign to ensure food labels have better information to tell consumers where meat products come from. 
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Michelin's secret army of spies edges into light
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:00:01 GMT
When Michelin brought its prestigious restaurant guides to the US, purists wondered how the famous French obsession with starched linen and the right sort of fricassée would sit with the culinary culture of a nation that invented fast-food and the all-you-can-eat buffet. The answer, it seems, is not very comfortably. Three years after they crossed the Atlantic, the publishers of haute cuisine's little red book have been forced to compromise a core principle: the anonymity of their secretive reviewers. 
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Starbucks drops identikit stores
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:00:01 GMT
Britain's biggest coffee-shop chain is to abandon its decade-long policy of starting identikit stores in the hope that less homogeneous shops will lift sales. 
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Starbucks chief admits: our shops are all wrong
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:00:01 GMT
Britain's biggest coffee-shop chain is to abandon its decade-long policy of starting identikit stores in the hope that less homogeneous shops will lift sales. 
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If we all love Jamie and Nigella, why can't most of us even boil an egg?
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:00:01 GMT
Britain is a nation of food voyeurs who love books and programmes about eating, but still don't bother cooking for themselves, the food critic and author, Tom Parker Bowles said yesterday. 
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Cocktails and a slurp or two - Keith Floyd's final day
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:48:50 GMT
Keith Floyd quaffed champagne cocktails and a fine bottle of Cote du Rhone just hours before he died, despite a warning from his doctors to reduce his drinking, The Independent has learnt. 
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Celebrity chef Keith Floyd dies aged 65
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:49:45 GMT
Keith Floyd, the chef with a relaxed presentation style who brought the phrase "a little slurp" to television screens, has died aged 65. 
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Celebrity chef Keith Floyd dies aged 65
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:49:45 GMT
Keith Floyd, the chef with a relaxed presentation style who brought the phrase "a little slurp" to television screens, has died aged 65. 
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Treat yourself... have a cupcake
Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:00:01 GMT
They have been dubbed the "5-to-9ers". Every evening after work, they don their pinnies and get out their mixing bowls. Meet the stars of the new baking craze that has spawned an entire cottage industry and provided retailers with the sales equivalent of an instant sugar high. 
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How the bubbly burst
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:00:01 GMT
Some of the most prized of all champagne grapes are grown on the chalky, sun-blasted slopes above the village of Chouilly, just east of Epernay. What seems to be a single, immense vineyard, part of the celebrated Côte des Blancs, is actually a medieval quilt of small family holdings. 
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A deal fit for a future King? Waitrose pays princely sum for Duchy rights
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:00:01 GMT
the prince of Wales was accused of commercialising the Royal Family last night by agreeing a rescue deal with Waitrose that will hand the £4bn-a-year supermarket exclusive rights to make, license and sell his faltering Duchy Originals range. 
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Oysters blamed for Fat Duck illnesses
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:42:52 GMT
It was the oysters. Health officials today blamed sewage-infected shellfish for striking down hundreds of diners at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, earlier this year. 
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Prince Charles strikes supermarket deal for Duchy Originals
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:48:12 GMT
The Prince of Wales' organic food company today announced the launch of a partnership deal with Waitrose. 
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Micro-breweries prove a big pull in Britain
Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:00:12 GMT
Britain has the greatest number of small breweries of any major industrialised nation, with 71 starting up in the last year alone, according to the Good Beer Guide. 
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British brewery numbers soar
Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:00:01 GMT
Britain has more small breweries than any other major industrialised nation, according to the Good Beer Guide. 
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Palm oil producers 'misled' over green claims
Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:51:25 GMT
The palm oil industry misled the public by claiming production of the vegetable fat was sustainable and socially useful, according to an official investigation. 
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Europe unites in attempt to protect bluefin tuna
Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:00:01 GMT
Europe is to throw its weight behind a campaign to save the bluefin tuna from decades of over-fishing after a breakthrough in talks in Brussels. 
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McDefeat for food giant over curry restaurant
Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:01:23 GMT
Fast food giant McDonald's today lost an eight-year trademark battle against a Malaysian curry restaurant after the country's highest court allowed the latter to use the prefix 'Mc'. 
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A slice of Britain: Carrots and leeks do battle for the vegetable crown
Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:00:01 GMT
Len Stubbings takes vegetables seriously. Running a hand through his white beard, he has been peering at a plate of white potatoes for nearly half an hour. 
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Just desserts as Wareing takes top pudding award
Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:00:01 GMT
When Marcus Wareing became a chef he decided that his favourite childhood pudding made by his Lancastrian grandmother Emily was worth recreating for paying diners. 
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