Kokova Magazine

Australia Day on the 26th January is the perfect annual excuse to celebrate all that is great and good about our antipodean cousins, and a welcome chance to bring a slice of the outback sunshine to our chillier climes. This Australia Day, why not raise a g'day toast to the land 'Down Under' with a glass of something special from the cellar of Neil McGuigan, who has just been awarded the IWSC's winemaker of the year for an unprecedented third year.

Whether you are an experienced pickler or a preserving novice, Riverford's new Preserved Lemon Kit will add colour to your kitchen shelf and an exotic zing to your cooking. Developed by Riverford's pickling guru, Anna Colquhoun, the kit is an easy and tasty way to start pickling at home and add a North African flavour to your food.

Cumbria's most adventurous food producers will set sail to Marvejols in France on Thursday 31st January to represent Cumbria in the week long Taste Cumbria Producer Exchange Programme. Nineteen Cumbrian food traders & industry representatives from Solway, Border and Eden have been selected by Taste Cumbria to visit Marvejols to meet their French food counterparts and establish new networks, trade their produce abroad and view some of France's most established food tourism models.

Competition now closed. Congratulations to Fiona Byrne (Surrey).

Add a delicious twist to your pancakes this Shrove Tuesday 12th February with The East India Company's range of luxurious sugars. Specially selected from the finest Mauritian cane, if you're tired of the usual sugar and lemon, there is something to surprise and delight in this unique range. Sprinkle The East India Company's delicious Chocolate Sugar over fresh, ripe strawberries or juicy orange slices to create a delightfully decadent pancake.

Hunger and malnutrition in childhood will trap almost a billion young people in poverty by 2025, according to a major new campaign, launched today by Britain's leading development charities and faith groups. The group warns that in a world where there is enough food for everyone, the scandal of children growing up hungry also imposes a grave economic burden on the developing world, costing £78 billion over the next 15 years.