Posts tagged 'Fairtrade blog' - page 3
07 December 2009
Kit-Kat Goes Fairtrade
Fairtrade has just announced that Kit-Kat, the massive brand of Nestlé in the UK, is switching its cocoa over to Fairtrade. This will start in mid January 2010 and is obviously a reaction to Cadbury's Dairy Milk going Fairtrade in Summer 2009. See...
Read more15 November 2009
Recipe - Quince & Ginger Steam Pudding
A good friend of ours - Jane - gave us 8 large quinces the other day and I have been racking my brains as to the best way to use them. They have a gorgeous light green-yellow colour and an almost eye-like shape, but finding recipe ideas for them is...
Read more07 November 2009
Give A Christmas Present Today
It's the end of the ancient British year as we move from the bright, warm summer period into the winter period. It's a time to reflect on where we are. As we move into the colder, winter months, it is a time to be thankful for what we have got and...
Read more06 November 2009
Bonfire Night and Delicious Parkin Recipe
Another symbol of the passing year. Another memory of cold, dark evenings. Another thread perhaps back to simpler times, perhaps even to pagan times. Bonfire Night has a special place in our annual celebrations, even though I know it’s not very PC...
Read more27 October 2009
New Fairtrade Organic Mulling Wine Sachets from Steenbergs
It might have caused me sleepless nights and given me an undue amount of heartache and stress, but Steenbergs new range of Mulling Wine Spices in sachets has finally arrived. It's about 1½ months behind schedule and we have been having to disappoint...
Read more22 October 2009
Recipe For Kulfi - The Perfect Indian Pudding
Of course, you need a pudding/sweet to round off the indulgence of a delicious, groaning table of delicately spiced Indian food. Kulfi (Indian ice cream) has been made for ages and was served to the Moghul Emperors at their hedonistic courts in Delh...
Read more13 September 2009
Turner's Rain, Steam, Speed - The Great Western Railway
Last weekend, we spent in London at The Speciality & Fine Food Fair 2009, where we had a stand displaying our wares to UK trade buyers. It was a good show, with numbers slightly down, but the quality was there; the froth has gone out of the mark...
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