Thousands of food lovers got a taste of the Welsh language at a popular festival – as well as the international language of coffee Organisers of the Llangollen Food Festival were thrilled with the turn-out over two bustling days at the popular event which has been hailed as one of the highlights in the UK’s […]
An Anglesey care home’s senior chef who is so determined to please the people she caters for that she regularly has fresh smoked salmon specially flown in for them from the Outer Hebrides has been shortlisted for a prestigious award. Delyth Taylor, who admits that she spends more time at Gwyddfor in Holyhead than at […]
Thousands of food lovers will be beating a path to Llangollen this weekend to sample the culinary delights of the town’s annual food festival. The Llangollen Food Festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday at the international pavilion which is where Wales meets the world at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod every summer. The […]
A Cardiff care home chef who prides herself on catering for the individual tastes of residents has been shortlisted for a prestigious award. In the seven years Vicky Popple has been in charge of the kitchen at Hafod’s Woodcroft home in Towbridge she has cooked up a formidable reputation for knowing precisely the tastes and […]
A teenager from Afonwen is among a group of young entrepreneurs are launching a new range of eco-friendly products at a food festival. The students from the Northop campus of Coleg Cambria will be selling fruit bowls made from vinyl LP records, herbs planted in empty food cans and coasters made from Scrabble tiles at […]
A North Wales micro-brewery with a range of vegan beers has bagged a top taste award at the British food and drink ‘Oscars’. Dovecote Brewery in Denbigh produces exclusively vegan-friendly beers at its Denbigh headquarters on Colomendy industrial estate. Among them is Dove Down Under, a 4.8 per cent strength ale made with New Zealand […]
A passionate campaigner for Welsh food has launched her own business to promote and celebrate the rich and varied produce of North East Wales. The Feeder is the brainchild of Trine Hughes, the chair of Slow Food North Wales and founder of Slow Food Liverpool, and will provide a hub to promote the region’s produce […]
A speciality coffee maker who started off roasting coffee beans over a camp stove in his shed is celebrating his sixth anniversary by brewing up a luxurious blend in honour of a top food festival. Barman turned barista Tim Parry is now producing in one afternoon what he previously made in one week and has […]
An appeal has gone out to foraging fruit pickers – bring us your bilberries and we’ll give you a beer. The beer for berries deal is on offer from craft brewery Hafod from Mold and will help them make an extra large cache of their tasty Bilberry Brew in time for this autumn’s Taste North […]
A larger than life TV chef will be championing Welsh beef and lamb with an outdoor cookery demonstration at a top food festival. Chris “Foodgasm” Roberts, who has his own television series on S4C, will also have a starring role at the popular Llangollen Food Festival on Saturday and Sunday, October 19 and 20. He […]
