Kokova Magazine

Fine food specialist COOKS&CO has the perfect ingredient for easy entertaining this Christmas - a range of delicious olives and antipasti that will delight any guest. Available from major supermarkets, including Tesco, Asda and Ocado, COOKS&CO is offering no fewer than seven types of olives to savour this festive season, from the finest Pitted Kalamata Olives and Pitted Green Olives with Natural Pimiento, to a mouth-watering range of stuffed Green Olives featuring Garlic, Blue Cheese, Sundried Tomatoes, Feta and Jalapeños.

Due to the phenomenal reaction to the sell out launch show in London, the Cake & Bake Show, the UK's biggest experiential event dedicated to all things baking, is proud to announce that a second edition of the show will take place at Manchester Central over three days, 5th-7th April 2013. The first Cake & Bake Show held at Earls Court last September sold out four weeks before the event, and attracted more than 21,000 visitors across two days, demonstrating that the public's demand for baking shows no sign of slowing down.

The recent Morrisons advert portrays the nations divided taste preference for Christmas pudding and aims to show how, for many people, this choice of traditional desert is really not so popular. Two boys conspire with the family dog to get rid of a slice of the unwanted pudding - which even a potted plant cannot survive - but in reality, neither could the dog!

Celebrate Chinese New Year 10th -13th February 2013 by cooking up a banquet with help of a Kitchen Devils Asian Cook's Knife. Chinese food has always been a firm favourite in the UK and not only do we love a good takeaway, we really enjoy cooking Chinese style dishes at home, so much so that Kitchen Devils has two Asian Cook's Knives in its current range.

Now in it's fourth year, Nigel Haworth's Fantastic Food Show is back in Blackburn on Sunday 19th May 2013 at Ewood Park. The show has attracted an array of celebrity chefs including Aldo Zilli, Tom Kerridge and Atul Kochhar - and is vast becoming one of, if not the largest food festival to take place in the region. 2013 promises to offer even more inspiration to food lovers, children and everyone who just loves to know where their food comes from, how it's produced, how it tastes, how to grow and how to cook it. So, if you are passionate about food then make sure this date is in your diary!

Fed up with mince pies and the Christmas crackers already? If so, why not take a break from the same old traditional festivities by heading to the Ripley's Alternative Christmas Festival in the heart of Piccadilly Circus. The capital's most bizarre attraction is playing host to a series of quirky Christmas events during December.