Virtual Farmers’ Market

The first 3D Virtual Farmers Market (VFM) has officially opened its gates. The VFM is a new website that, using the latest games technology, allows you to virtually stroll around a 3D farmers market world, where you can ‘meet’ the people that produce your food and drink via video streams and buy farmers market produce [...]

Signature Earl Grey by Twinings

I am not a tea connoisseur, though I am fast becoming one. Like so many things of a culinary nature, it is only when you taste the best of a certain produce that you realise how deprived you have been. And so it was on a brisk Saturday afternoon when I sampled a full Afternoon [...]

What a Pickle!

Knowing how obsessed I am with food, you would probably assume that I shop entirely at Farmers’ Markets and the finest artisan food stores. But I do have a normal life to lead too you know. Like everyone else, my time is restricted to gossiping in central London members’ clubs, perusing art galleries, dining at [...]

A Tale of Two Cheeses

The cheese counter at Selfridges has long been a Mecca to fromageophiles in central London. The odd month sees the selection wither and there was a time earlier in the year when I thought their cheese buyer didn’t really like cheese very much at all, as the choice was somewhat limited to the stock cheeses [...]

World Cheese Awards

A Canadian goat’s milk cheese, Le Cendrillon, saw off nearly 2,500 other competitors to take the title of World Champion Cheese 2009 yesterday – the second year in a row that a goats’ milk cheese has taken the top spot.

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