At Local Food Surrey, we love great food and drink. In these food and drink articles, we wax lyrical about the best local and seasonal food that we find in Surrey and beyond.
Artistically iced, decorated with glazed fruit or just plain nutty, there’s nothing to beat homemade Christmas cake. Bakers say a rich fruit cake improves as it matures, which is good news if you want to get ahead with your Christmas cooking.
Here at Local Food HQ, we’re happily indulging ourselves in Chocolate Week (12 – 18 October 2015) – after all, it’s just the excuse we need to break into a bar or two (hands up, it’s three really!).
It’s congratulations all round at Local Food Britain HQ as three of our members have been recognised as best in county in the Surrey Life Food and Drink Awards 2015.
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has presented Biddenden Strong Kentish Cider with an award for Cider of the Festival 2015 at the Great British Beer Festival in August.
The school hols are approaching their final hurrah, the days are growing a little shorter and there's a hint of autumn in the evening air. Better get out the Tupperware – it’s blackberry time again!
The founder of the Raw Chocolate Company wowed all five dragons on the flagship BBC Dragons Den show last weekend. Fighting over each other for a stake in the company, it was Deborah Meaden who struck a deal with Sussex-based Linus Gorpe.
British mackerel is at the peak of its season in the summer. We caught up with Charlie Passant of Forest Row fishmongers Veasey and Sons to find out more about this delicious fish.
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