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Cops cut to the chase
Forget cops and robbers, cops and doughnuts are two words that have gone together since the dawn of time. And this is now the name of a new doughnut shop in Clare City, Michigan - owned, that’s right, by cops. Only in America.This joyous cohesion came about when the Clare ...
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Chocolate dreams
John Slattery, master patissier and chocolatier, and current winner of the Baking Industry Award for Special Achievement, has no intention of resting on his laurels.At the recent British Society of Baking (BSB) conference, he told delegates that shop customers like to experience ’theatre’. This is why he spent a tense ...
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Training dates for your diary
7-9 SeptemberGoing ProfessionalLocation: Panary, Cann Mills, DorsetContact: 01722 711 760www.panary.co.uk7-11 SeptemberPractical Biscuit TechnologyLocation: Campden BRI, Chipping Campden,GloucestershireContact: 01386 842104 (Training Dept)www.campden.co.uk15-17 SeptemberYeast: the Key to FermentationLocation: Lesaffre International Baking Centre, Lille, FranceContact: +33 320 148 013www.lesaffre.com16-17 SeptemberSourdoughLocation: Panary, Cann Mills, DorsetContact: 01722 711 760www.panary.co.uk19-20 SeptemberContinental BreadsLocation: Panary, Cann Mills, ...
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Insomnia defies gloom with promotional deals
Irish coffee shop chain Insomnia says recession-busting deals linking coffee and baked goods are driving sales, with over half its business now coming from promotions. It plans to continue the tactic throughout 2009.The Dublin-based 52-shop chain has run a series of successful discounts and ’meal deals’ since the onset of ...
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Reporting in Don’t ignore flavour factor in salt debate
I have been ’Reporting In’ for about five years and, in that time, have seen a gradual evolution of technical issues and opportunities for the British baking sector.The link between food and health has grown from interest to, dare I say, near obsession. Every food product or ingredient now seems ...
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Top-end retailers to get a dose of Just Desserts
Yorkshire-based baker and patissier Just Desserts has launched several new products and hopes to tackle the top-end retail sector, following substantial investment at its Shipley factory.The firm took over a unit that became available next to its factory last year, and spent around £50k doubling the factory’s floor space to ...
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Spice rack: fennel seeds
Fennel seeds are produced by both the feathery annual herb and the bulbous perennial Florence fennel, which is eaten as a vegetable. The flowers produce a mass of seeds, which are quite sweet, and the flavour is similar to aniseed or liquorice. They are used in fish soups and stews ...
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Untangling fibre
In these increasingly health-conscious times, we might expect fibre-containing bakery products to do especially well. But sales data tells a rather different story.In its June 2009 category report, Kingsmill quotes Nielsen figures that put total year-on-year value growth at 6.5% for bakery as a whole. Yet, while sliced wholemeal did ...
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Food in the news
According to Verdict Consulting, the price of a traditional English breakfast has fallen for the first time in a year. For a family of four, it now costs an average of £16.01 compared to £16.06 last month.Research by Mintel’s Global Products Database suggests the economic downturn has not created a ...
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Mixing it up for foodservice
BakeMark has launched a new range of multi-purpose Craigmillar brand mixes for foodservice. The four-strong range available is: plain muffin & cake mix, chocolate muffin & cake mix, pizza & bread mix and scone mix, and is suitable for vegetarians.The mixes contain no hydrogenated fat, colours or flavours ...
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Raising the game
King Canute is best known for turning back the waves. Warburtons, by contrast, just had to raise the ground. And it had the benefit of modern technology.Its new bakery at Bristol, which officially opened on 30 June, is the latest in a chain designed to give the company national distribution ...
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Hot topics
A link between the Bank of England lending rate and chocolate rice crispies must seem fairly tenuous. But at the British Society of Baking’s June conference, which took place at its new venue, Ardencote Manor in Warwickshire, all became clear.The line-up of speakers included Graeme Chaplin from the Bank of ...
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Tameside student wins Hovis scholarship
The Hovis Scholarship Award has been given to Gabrielle Baxter from Tameside College, who will get the chance to obtain first-hand bakery experience working with industry professionals.The scholarship, created by Rank Hovis, is awarded to one student a year for an all-expenses-paid learning experience. Baxter will start work at Southampton ...
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New sponsor joins NCW
Baking cases producer Chevler has joined Puratos as a sponsor of National Cupcake Week (NCW).Sales director Mike Wescomb said that the firm is proud to sponsor NCW and is happy to support all creative bakers taking part to develop new and innovative ideas."As the UK’s leading manufacturer of baking ...
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Mouthing off
"It’s devastating - a £2 sandwich has cost me my business, my home and everything I’ve worked on for the last 35 years"- UK businessman Tony Scott rues the day he stopped for a £2 chicken sandwich, as thieves stole £500,000 worth of jewellery from the back seat ...
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Piero’s passion
Mention an industrial estate in Slough and it may well bring to mind an image of David Brent, the uncomfortably weird boss of a paper merchant, played by Ricky Gervais in BBC comedy The Office. However, the particular industrial estate on this occasion is home to speciality bread-maker Montana Bakery ...
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Professional pilot
Ayear is a long time in the world of education quangos. The government overhauled the entire qualifications framework, launching a new Qualifications and Credit Framework (or QCF as it will no doubt become known - education bigwigs love an acronym). Meanwhile, the National Skills Academy (NSA) and bakery employers have ...
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Report
Research by Costa Coffee revealed that where people live not only affects their dialect but also how they taste food and drink. Taste preferences from 13,000 people in the UK’s major regions have been analysed by food psychologist Greg Tucker, with input from Andy Taylor, professor of flavour technology from ...
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So what’s in your sandwich?
Are you "thoughtful, inquisitive and independent without strong romantic ties" or are you "the life of the party" or even a "charismatic adventure seeker"? Then, boy, have we uncovered the sandwich for you! Or, to be honest, we haven’t... but the Chicago-based Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation (smellandtaste.org) ...
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Sell more this summer
How many times have you thought about how to increase your sales? Well here’s how: suggestive selling, up-selling, link selling and promotional selling.As retailers, you have so much power when it comes to the point of purchase with your customers. But you can increase your ’at counter sales’ by over ...