Posts in category All Things Yorkshire

Today is our special day and we’re hoping all Yorkshire Pudders will join us in celebrating – by making homemade Yorkshire Puddings of course! Find out how.

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.

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.

Yorkshire Pudd team Chris Blackburn and Claire Smith tell us …

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.

Upon hearing the news, the city’s council leader Stephen Brady said it was a chance to show the world what the great city had to offer. And while we know there are many gems, we’re going to let you in on what we consider the top food and drink delights about the UK’s City of Culture 2017.

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?

Folks in Yorkshire are famous for their county pride. And, for nearly forty years, the integrity of the big and beautiful county of Yorkshire has been celebrated annually, without fail, on August 1. This day of pride, festivity, food, drink, revelry, friendship and historic commemoration is known as Yorkshire Day.

Do you ever wonder why blogs exist? What fun do people like me actually get from writing about something over and over and what of all that work?

I can’t speak for everybody on some of those questions. What I can do is tell you about one amazing week as a northern blogger and hopefully you’ll see some of the perks.

Beef dripping and whale bones may not seem very PC or forward-thinking for 2013, but they provide one huge trawler-load of charm in Whitby. Often called the sparkling jewel in North Yorkshire’s crown.