I’ve learnt a thing or two about food safety and hygiene this week, courtesy of an online course from Virtual College. Virtual College are a supplier of e-learning courses to business and industry, and have content covering a huge range of vocational subjects. I completed their Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering course, and I’ve [...]
From Passive Aggressive Notes. Sorry, vegans. I love you, really, even if I don’t understand why you think soya milk is edible.
I think I’ve just found a new hero…http://www.youtube.com/v/r7mIxcMn3Eg&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1I love seeing food producers who are passionate about what they do. That passion and dedication invariably influences the quality of their products. This is a classic example.This is back-to-basics butchery, careful handling of top quality ingredients. Meat preparation the old fashioned way.Would it be possible to cook [...]
Food hygiene isn’t the first thing I think about when choosing a restaurant. I’m more interested in the menu. Heston Blumenthal’s recent experiences show how quickly a hygiene scare can derail a business, with The Fat Duck, one of the country’s – the world’s – best restaurants closed for much of last week while an [...]
At the turn of the last century, rhubarb growers in the area roughly between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield in West Yorkshire produced ninety percent of the world’s rhubarb, forcing slender and pale stalks for the markets at Spitallfields or Covent Garden. The Rhubarb Express bore crates of Yorkshire rhubarb to the capital until well into [...]