Do Snowballs leave you cold? Are you Egg-nogged out? Well, Shaken Udder wants to shake up your Christmas with a selection of deliciously festive cocktails. A must on any Christmas menu are the new Creamy Strawberry Daiquiri, Irish Coffee and White Russian recipes from the award-winning milkshake makers.
If you like chocolate you will love Chocolate Week 2013, whose dedication to promoting fine flavour chocolate, celebrating the work of top chocolatiers and chocolate companies brings together a fabulous series of events running from the 14th - 20th October 2013.
September 2013 sees the launch of 'Kitchen Clinic', a six-week unique series of Vegetarian and Vegan food and drink events in the heart of Soho by the team behind Sutra Kitchen, Central London's first exclusively Vegetarian cooking school. Creating a platform for smaller concepts, some run from living rooms and as a 'second job', Kitchen Clinic will showcase a fabulous mix of talented individuals and some truly delicious food where vegetables and herbs take centre stage.
If like us you are searching for an alternate to the meat on offer at the major supermarkets but have yet to discover your local fresh producing butcher then take a look at the new Butcher's Boxes available from historic Smithfield butchers Keevil and Keevil. These 'selection boxes' provide butcher-quality meat at prices comparable to supermarkets - perfect for hungry families to stock up freezers to last all month.
The UK's longest running holistic festival Mind Body Spirit is rolling down to the South East's vibrant city by the sea, Brighton from the 1st to the 3rd of Noveber 2013 - to celebrate life at its best via a range of leading experts in all things holistic health, personal growth and spirituality.
Going dairy- and gluten-free can have its limitations when it comes to finding good quality iced desserts and puddings. You either plump for a sugar-laden cake (delicious but not for everyday) or you settle for an alternate form of ice-cream that lacks any of the attributes you desire other than it being cold. Taste seems to go out of the window with free-from iced desserts so we were delighted to discover the Frozen Fruit Company at this year's Speciality & Fine Foods Fair.
