Kokova Magazine

With just over three weeks to go Love Food Festival is busy putting together a carefully selected timetable of game cookery demonstrations that will empower people to cook with game, and shine the light on some lesser known but delicious ingredients. Cookery school 'Hendra Barns' will be bringing their very own butcher along to teach people how to prepare a pheasant and rabbit from field to oven, covering everything from skinning and plucking to choosing the right herbs and flavours.

Team slimy snails (savoury stuffed giant pasta shells) and black widow cake (liquorice flavoured loveliness) with spooky spuds with scary toppings, hocus pocus patatas bravas, lantern soup and devilish red cabbage - for a fiendish feast to please even your most ghoulish guests.

After Inked® is billed as a 'tattoo moisturiser and aftercare lotion' that could possibly only come to the attention of a select group of people who already have - or are getting a new tattoo. But it is obvious that a lot of care and attention has gone into making this product - and since it is gluten free we think it is good enough to share! Having been made from food grade ingredients means it could actually be good enough to eat - but for now we are going to play it safe and stick to trying it as a moisturiser.

How you ever passed by a chocolatier and pressed your face to the glass, hoping for a better view and dreamed of sampling some of the decadent delights on display. Or yearned for a glimpse into the world of chocolate making, where you can taste as you learn and gain insights into this wonderful profession. Well, now you can enter the secret world of high-end chocolate, hidden around the Capital, with Chocolate Ecstasy Tours.

On the last weekend in September we headed up to Tobacco Dock, Wapping for the 8th London International Tattoo Convention. Billed as "the biggest, best, most significant, and utterly awesome convention in the world" we went along to see just how awesome it was going to be - and to find out if there was more to this weekend than simply watching people get inked.

Approximately 25,000 visitors poured into Cockermouth over 29th and 30th September, as organisers of 2012's Taste Cumbria Food Festival have announced the highest visitor figures ever. A town fast gaining a reputation as a food lovers' paradise, Cockermouth and the Taste Cumbria Food Festival is now firmly established as a date in the diary.