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Scottish celebration: What to eat on Burns Night
What to serve when you can’t stomach haggis How many of you out there pay tribute to our bonny buddies and their poet father Robert Burns on this day? If there’s a celebration to be had, why not embrace it, I say?! Scotland’s rich heritage and traditions deserve to reach far, especially as far as Yorkshire. …
Get your pinnies on for a new Yorkshire cookery school
The 17th century Country Estate Carlton Towers will open in Spring 2014 and promises to offer the chance to discover the art of traditional cooking, while keeping an eye on the future for contemporary cooking methods.
Luxurious Devonshire Arms offers complimentary stay – for the price of a bottle
Well, OK, the price of that bottle is rather pricey at £199, but only you can decide whether that’s a small price to pay to get a room at the beautiful country hotel near Bolton Abbey in North Yorkshire thrown in.
Eating in VS eating out for Christmas dinner: Our bloggers thrash it out
Yorkshire Pudd team Chris Blackburn and Claire Smith tell us how they’re spending Christmas Day and why Christmas dinner is better spent eating in or out. There are a few things that are pretty much guaranteed for most families on Christmas Day – presents and Christmas dinner. But how we are going about those age-old …
A ‘Christmas hamper with a heart’ supports dog charity in true festive spirit
Black Dog Deli has created a luxury Christmas hamper which supports Labrador Rescue Trust. Team YorkshirePudd tries it out. We’re constantly hearing of ethical trade in all industries these days, but the welfare of dogs in the food camps are not what you’d usually be hearing about just before Christmas. Or any time, come to …
How to make Christmas dinner: Top Yorkshire chef shares tips on perfecting the festive feast
Need help with Christmas dinner ideas? Michelin-starred chef Jeff Baker reveals secrets of perfecting the meal of the year with his Christmas dinner guide.
First ever National Pigs in Blankets Day!
Pigs are being put on a pedestal this Christmas with the launch of its National Pigs in Blankets Day. It is estimated that over 100 million of this essential seasonal staple are eaten on Christmas day alone.
Top 10 Yorkshire cheeses
Today there may be a faint whiff hovering over the Midlands, a collective pong of dairy from all over the world. Why? Well, today is the day of the World Cheese Awards, taking place at the BBC Good Food Show at the NEC Birmingham, no less.
The Cake and Bake Show Manchester 2014
Tickets are now on sale for the second Manchester edition of the UK’s favourite baking exhibition where Great British Bake Off 2013 winner Frances Quinn will be joining a stellar line up of baking stars.
What a wonder: Yorkshire rapeseed oil
Stick a product on TV and it’ll sell, get a celebrity chef to give it a mention or three and it’ll fly off the shelf’s, and that’s certainly the case with the newest craze with foodies, a new love of Rapeseed Oil, but is it actually any good?