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Fathers Day Gin Gifts

Top 10 Gin Gifts for Father’s Day

Premium gin gifts for him, from unusual gin gift sets to the best gin bottles we've come across.

Special Father's Day discount! Use code FATHERSDAYGIFT for 10% off on the Azu Spirits website.

The best gift for a gin lover, our blind tasting gift sets offer the chance to discover...

Devon and Cornwall Food Association delighted with Surplus IT donation

The Devon and Cornwall Food Association ’s administrative duties will be a lot easier now thanks to Alex & Sonia Hosking from Surplus Waste Electricals (Surplus WEEE CIC) who have donated three computers, a laser jet printer and a new telephone. Sonia and Alex then spent time networking all the equipment up to aid those working in the DCFA (Plymouth) office.

Surplus WEEE CIC is a '...

Calling all Foodies- Plymouth Food Awards 2013

There’s only one day left to have your say on who makes the best eats in the city.

The awards presented by Food Plymouth, an organisation dedicated to promoting good sustainable local food, are designed to showcase excellent local produce and producers.

Voting on the awards closes tonight and will be presented at the National Marine Aquarium on the 20 september.

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Apple crumbles teaching children about sustainable food

Produce from the Tamar Valley will be sailed to Plymouth in an event teaching schoolchildren about food sustainability next month.

Apples, eggs, flour and honey from local producers will travel along the River Tamar on the Shamrock, a traditional sailing boat operated by SailTrade, a sustainable food transport company.

The school children will spend the morning picking...

Plymouth seeks to become world-leader for seafood sustainability

Plymouth’s restaurants are being given an opportunity to participate in a scheme that could bring a prestigious award to the city and set Plymouth apart as a world-leading city for seafood sustainability.

A partnership between National Marine Aquarium, Destination Plymouth and Plymouth University's Marine Institute has teamed up with Fish2Fork – the online sustainable dining guide – in...

Local competition winner enjoys cookery master class with John Torode

Julie Williams from Plympton, Plymouth was one of six lucky winners in a recent competition run by Australian wine maker, McGuigan Wines. Julie and her brother Martin won the chance to spend a day in London taking part in a cookery master class with celebrity chef and Masterchef presenter, John Torode.

The winners gathered at cookery school, L’Atelier des Chefs in central London, where...

Pick up your new Plymouth Good Food Map - free at Flavour Fest

Food Plymouth has produced a new Good Food Map, listing Plymouth’s restaurants and other eateries serving local food with clear details about where it came from.

The new map is free of charge and can be picked up from Food Plymouth’s stand (SA11 near sundial) at Flavour Fest from Friday to Sunday this weekend (16-18 August). Alternatively free copies will be available from information...

Flavour Fest 2013: South West's largest food and drink festival celebrates its 10th anniversary

Starting today until Sunday over 100 traders will line the Piazza in Plymouth City Centre as the city gets ready to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ever popular Flavour Fest.

This year two new high profile celebrity chefs Michael Caines and Anton Piotrowski, winner of Masterchef Professional 2012, will be holding master cookery demonstrations.

The event is the South West’...

Entomologist and chef unite to entice people to eat insects

Insects are no longer a novelty food stuff and could actually be used to feed the world, a Plymouth University academic has suggested.

In May this year, the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organisation published a report which provided the first comprehensive assessment of insects' current and potential uses food for humans and livestock.

Now Plymouth-based entomologist...

Back British farming to put more British food on more British plates

In a year when British farming has received phenomenal backing from consumers, the NFU is urging the public to help turn around a decline in self-sufficiency that means the UK produces just 62 per cent of its own food.

Starkly, our current self-sufficiency rate means that today, August 14, is the day when British food supplies would run out if all the food produced in Britain in a year...

It's a baker's dozen as The Great British Bake Off returns to our screens

For the first time ever, the tent welcomes a baker’s dozen to do baking battle. Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins coax them through their baking trials, all the while under the scrutiny of the judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood. But with 13 bakers, at any time Mary and Paul may decide to lose not one but two bakers. This year, nobody is safe.

BBC TWO's hugely popular show The Great...

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