All British Baker articles in February 2009
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Subway steps up
With five outlets opening every week, any figure pinned on the number of Subway stores around the country is always going to be out of date before it is published. But by the beginning of February, the total in the UK and Ireland topped 1,400 - and the chain reckons ...
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== Brooklands winners ==Sugarcraft students at Brooklands College in Surrey triumphed at the UK’s culinary competition, Hospitality Salon Culinaire, taking two gold, three silver and four bronze medals. Lecturer Jane Hatton, who guided them on their wedding cake decorating work for the competition, said she was very proud of their ...
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== Promise for naan ==Arnaouti Pitta Bread Bakery, Herts, has won an award for its Eastern Promises design and print for its speciality naan breads and snack naans. Jefta Kon Lakovich, chief executive of Arnaouti, said the top web design was printed on a 45-micron high-barrier film and ran ...
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== Greencore stays solid ==Greencore announced it had "performed solidly" during the last year, according to its recent interim management statement. The firm said Convenience delivered a solid performance in 2008, with sales up 8.3% after currency conversions. However, Greencore warned consumer pressure has resulted in weakened demand for some ...
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Window shopping
London luxury food store Fortnum & Mason’s spring window display, titled Urban Craft, is a celebration of craft baking in the capital. The store linked up with various livery companies, of which the Worshipful Company of Bakers was one, to illustrate, in its side windows, skills that have been plied ...
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Seasonal seller
Rocket is a leaf vegetable. The leaves are at their best when they are young and tender, but as they get older the flavour becomes stronger and, when they are roughly chopped, give a strong peppery, slightly lemony taste. It has been grown in the Mediterranean since Roman times and ...
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Time saver
Despite the fact that if you put ’retarder provers’ into Google’s internet search engine, it seems to think you’ve made a spelling error, these machines are an integral feature of many bakeries. A retarder prover cools dough products, allowing them to be stored, before transforming from a cold storage unit ...
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Reporting in
== Mike Holling ==Chairman, National Association of Master BakersApart from the challenging economic climate that all sectors of the baking industry are experiencing at present, two weeks ago we were forced to deal with the worst weather conditions seen in the country for 18 years, resulting in further ...
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Perfecting the pasty
Crantock Bakery has been in business now for 25 years making pasties to traditional recipes from its base in Cornwall. The company was originally founded in the village of Crantock on the north Cornwall coast by a butcher who realised the potential of his freshly baked pasties made to ...
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Mouthing off
"I’m actually just a teenager, restless and goofy. Something like Hovis bread that you get in the UK; it’s white with all the goodness of brown"- Dev Patel, star of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Umm, we’re not sure we get the metaphor either..."I help out at this market stall ...
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Warburtons’ new Lunch Rolls
Warburtons has launched a new range of Lunch Rolls. The product comes in three varieties – white, wholemeal and grains & seeds – and has a more ‘hand-crafted’ look, according to the company.Sarah Miskell, category director at Warburtons, said: “Currently, 28% of bakery is consumed at the in-home lunch occasion ...
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Landlord selling up?
If the freehold to your premises is put up for sale, the bad news is that the landlord can sell to whoever they like. You don’t have first refusal.Although a landlord has a free rein when it comes to selling freehold premises, either they or their agents cannot show potential ...
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Viennese toilet humour
Standing up or sitting down? That’s the first question that many shopfitters would ask food-to-go bakery and café retailers when putting together a refit. One Austrian shopfitter clearly took the brief too literally when he, ahem, floated this concept.The above picture is of a coffee shop’s toilets. Nothing remarkable about ...
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fresh! launches new slimline sandwiches
fresh! naturally organic has launched a range of ‘credit crunch munch’ slimline sandwiches to tempt more consumers to go green.Ryan Varga-Clark, responsible for marketing, said they were an alternative to the brand’s more substantial filled sandwiches and should appeal to those cost-conscious shoppers who were not usually tempted to buy ...
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FSA Wales investigates fat reduction
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) Wales, is to hold a second co-hosted seminar for Welsh bakery businesses, looking at the issue of saturated fat reduction.The seminar will be held on 4 March from 4-6pm at FSA Wales’ Cardiff office in Wood Street, in association with the Food Industry Centre ...
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Going Dutch
== so why are things going so well for you when others are struggling? ==Because there is money out there to help build your business. A guy walked in off the street from Invest Sefton, located in a borough to the north of the City of Liverpool, which is there ...
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Délifrance looks towards France for Heritage
French bread manufacturer, Délifrance has just launched a new rustic bread range called Heritage, which uses traditional French recipes. It consists of part-baked breads in various shapes and sizes, including: Heritage Poolish, Sourdough and Multicereal Half Baguettes; the Losange, a diamond-shaped roll; and the Poolish, Sourdough and Multicereal Pavé.The firm ...
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Crazy for cupcakes
With National Cupcake Week now set for September 14-19, suppliers are already beginning to capitalise on the boom in cupcake sales, as the cupcake craze sweeps the nation. It’s a trend that’s set to continue, with market figures on the up."As the demand for kitsch, retro treats continues to ...
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Cowca-Cola
Are you planning to develop your soft drinks range and looking for an alternative to the major brands? One unlikely contender is looking to take on the might of Coca-Cola and Pepsi with its somewhat niche cola offering made from a natural spring - cow urine.The cola drink, said to ...
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Contactless payment sees growing popularity
Subway is the latest high street bakery retailer to offer shoppers a speedy way to pay for snacks and sandwiches.It is trialling a new payment system in some of its stores that enables people to buy items for less than £10 by touching their credit card against a sensor, without ...