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Enter now!
Get your entries in for the National Association of Master Bakers’ Bakery Competitions to be held at Bakers’ Fair Spring. Taking place at Newbury Racecourse on Sunday 10 April, the new event for 2011 will play host to competitions available to all bakers consisting of seven classes for ...
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Eyes on the pies of love
An aphrodisiac pie may sound like a contradiction in terms, but that’s what Accrington-based Holland’s Pies has devised for Valentine’s Day. The so-called Aphro-piety, created by chef Tom Bridge along with Holland’s, contains chicken thigh, perry cider, asparagus in a lemon-infused cream sauce, topped with smoked oysters and decorated with ...
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Pork Farms Nottingham
Installed: Applied Principles’ data capture system, Principle Suite.Solution: Queens Drive has been working with Applied Principles since July 2009 to improve processes and remove paper for the benefit of retail customers. Goods In and Low Risk were the first areas to remove paper and the additional equipment is being used ...
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Pukka takes pies further
Pukka Pies is to launch its range of microwaveable pies into the foodservice and wholesale sectors. The pies can be microwaved from frozen in three-and-a-half minutes the result of extensive development and test-marketing by the firm, which includes a new shortcrust pastry recipe designed specifically for the microwave.Initially available ...
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Government should ’wake up’ to organic opportunities
A new report from the Soil Association, ‘The Lazy Man of Europe’, asks the government to wake up to what Europe can teach the UK about backing organic food and farming.
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Helping your team to sell more products
Jonathan Winchester, managing director of mystery shopping and customer service company Shopper Anonymous, asks are your staff really making the sale?Sales are at the heart of any business and giving staff even a basic level of sales skills can make a huge difference to profits. This doesn’t mean asking them ...
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IFE Show preview
The International Food and Drink Exhibition takes place from 13-16 March 2011 at ExCeL, London, and will feature a number of bakery exhibitors and new product launches. The Bakery & Confectionery area is just one part of the show, which expects to attract up to 20,000 visitors this year. Exhibitors ...
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Indian inspiration
Fudge-like barfi in slabs of green, pink and gold, crispy coils of jelabi glistening with syrup while traditional bakeries might turn out baps and Bakewells, Indian cuisine offers a different world of baked goods. With a culture including bread as a firm part of most meal times, fresh naans, chapatis ...
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Mouthing off
"Our expectations have a tremendous influence on how we taste things they give food a positive halo. Don’t take ’good enough’ as being the benchmark, it has to be ’good’"Dr Brian Wansink, author of Mindless Eating, on why people will eat the last piece of stale chocolate cake ...
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Next stop Paris?
Winning the World Cup is probably the most prestigious accolade a nation could achieve well, in the field of bakery that is. And it is why, for the past 10 months, the UK team Mickael Jahan, Wayne Caddy and Steven Salt has been eating, sleeping and breathing this ...
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Hovis sale ’nonsense’A spokesperson for Premier Foods has dismissed speculation that Rank Hovis is to be put up for sale as "utter nonsense". An article in the Daily Mail stated that Premier’s board had met advisory firm NM Rothschild to discuss a sale, but the spokesperson said this meeting never ...
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Tower redundancyRising fuel prices have forced Scottish craft firm Tower Bakery to make one of its bakers redundant for the first time in its 30-year history. While some firms have been forced to raise prices, the Perth-based chain said the fuel tax rise meant it had also put some production ...
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Freeman to lead NAChristopher Freeman, of Dunns of Crouch End, has been nominated as president-elect of the National Association of Master Bakers (NA). Chief executive Gill Brooks-Lonican said: "He has been a staunch supporter of the NA, the ABST, and the Worshipful Company of Bakers for many years, and is ...
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Coffee shop sat-navCoffee Nation has launched a sat-nav tool to help drivers locate their nearest outlet while on the move. Using either TomTom or Garmin technology, consumers can simply download a file from the Coffee Nation website, which maps out more than 800 of its sites across the UK. The ...
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Trade Snapshot on: Sirha
What news trends are appearing across the Channel? We asked some exhibitors at the recent Sirha exhibition in Lyon...Christine Mermillod, president of third-generation bakery manufacturer Gerbe Savoyarde, told British Baker that the trend in France is also breads that have added nutritional benefits, especially for those containing nuts and seeds. ...
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On the tail of the tiger
Chef Heston Blumenthal is to launch some new bakery lines with Waitrose in April. The supermarket won’t say if that range will include any bake-off breads. But if it does, Waitrose may well be on the right lines in consulting the man who brought the world snail porridge.That’s because suppliers ...
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Tunnocks Uddingston
Installed: a new Schubert automated packaging line featuring a TLM-F44 Picker Station, which is used to pick up the teacakes and place them on to the grouping belt conveyor; they are then transported to the machine’s central loading operation. A Schubert TLM-F2 loading system then picks up the collated teacakes ...
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In my world
Alan Stuart is MD of Stuarts of Buckhaven and president of Scottish BakersOne of the best decisions I ever made was in 1989, when I applied to join the Q Guild, an elite group of butchers from all over the UK. At the time, we were a 16-shop retail bakery ...
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NewsUK team sees production success at Sigep Bread Cup
The UK team competing in the Sigep Bread Cup brought home the Production Award for producing the most products each day of the four-day competition, within a five-hour period.
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NewsKrispy Kreme reveals details of new factory
Krispy Kreme has announced it is to open its first dedicated production site in the UK, as it looks to increase its presence in the north of England.