All British Baker articles in September 2008 – Page 4
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British Baker Award for Special Achievement
This year’s winner of the British Baker Award for Special Achievement, John Slattery, is in good company, with names such as baker Charles Geary, cereals scientist Stan Cauvain and bakery tutor Jean Grieves.John Slattery, too, stands in a class of his own. A renowned patissier, confectioner and son of highly ...
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The Achievement in Bakery Training Award
Winner Jane HattonLecturerBrooklands CollegeWeybridge, SurreyHatton says she has always enjoyed sharing her skills as a baker and confectioner and her move into teaching from working full-time in various bakery businesses was a natural progression.She has now been teaching for 26 years, the last eight at Brooklands College.Hatton was ...
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Piero Scacco scoops the ultimate accolade at BIA
At Monday night’s Baking Industry Awards, Piero Scacco won the coveted Baker of the Year title.Sponsored by Vandemoortele, the accolade was presented to Scacco in front of a packed room of more than 800 members of the baking industry, assembled at London’s Grosvenor House hotel for the biggest annual ...
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Next issue 4 October
== lBaking Industry Awards ==Highlights of the big night at the Grosvenor House hotel, which hosted the industry’s glitziest bash== lChocolate ==BIA08 Special Achievement award winner, John Slattery, gives us his chocolate tart masterclass== lInterior Motives ==We visit another cutting-edge bakery retailer to ask what makes their retail strategy ...
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Welcome to the Baking Industry Awards 2008
A very big’congratulations!’ to the winners and finalists in the Baking Industry Awards and, importantly, a huge ’Thank You’ to all the award sponsors who made it possible.In the following pages, we celebrate all those who made it to the final three in each category.While we only give a brief ...
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Fire rips through De Gustibus bakery
De Gustibus’s Oxfordshire bakery has been destroyed in a fire. The blaze ripped through the artisan baker’s Abingdon plant on Wednesday night (10 September), damaging most of the building before firefighters arrived. Owner Dan Schickentanz said: “Only the walls are left standing – the place is completely gutted.”
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Dawn’s Cakes at Bakers’ Fair North
Dawn Foods will be on hand at Bakers’ Fair North to keep hunger pangs at bay, by offering a cake and a hot cup of something to every visitor. Dawn are sponsoring the refreshments section of the show, which is the UK’s only autumn exhibition for bakery companies, cafés and coffee shops, and will be giving attendees a free cake from its Adore and Sweet Bakery Snacks along with tea or coffee.
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Fosters Bakery director wins award
A director of Fosters Bakery has been awarded Yorkshire’s Young Director of the Year at a prestigious ceremony in Leeds. Michael Taylor from Fosters in Barnsley received the accolade at a gala evening at the Queens Hotel on Thursday 4 September, held by the Yorkshire and Humber Institute of Directors (IoD).
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NewsHovis reveals TV ad details
Hovis has revealed more details on its major TV campaign, which will be shown for the first time this Friday, 12 September. The ad, which was filmed in Liverpool with a cast of more than 750 extras, depicts the highs and lows experienced by Britain during Hovis’ existence.
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Seasonal seller
There are many varieties of plum available. Some are sweet and are suitable as dessert fruits and others are tart and can be made into jams or chutneys. Either type can be used for baking. There is a variety of skin colours from green and yellow to dark red and ...
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No stinting on the nutmeg
News agency AFP has reported that thousands of copies of a Swedish food magazine have had to be recalled, after it inadvertently poisoned some of its readers who followed one of its apple cake recipes.The recipe called for 20 nutmeg nuts, although it should have said two pinches of nutmeg. ...
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Movers and shakers
Subway is set to become the UK’s biggest bakery retailer in the New Year if it continues its current rate of growth, pushing Greggs from premier position.The US franchise chain now has 1,200 outlets in the UK, up 180 since British Baker’s annual Top 50 league table of bakery retailers ...
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Mouthing off
== "I’m only baking in a glorified wooden shed. Surely this is not running a business. We have had to stop baking cakes to sell and the council are even quibbling over our tables in the garden on planning grounds." - Civilian Diane Tovey falls foul of North-East Lincolnshire council ...
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Lamination for the nation
German bakery machine manufacturer Fritsch has revealed the latest addition to its range - the Fritsch Laminator 300. It has been designed for bakers who require automation and better quality in the production of dough sheets.The Laminator 300 is tailored for bakeries that produce between 200 and 1,000kg of dough ...
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Make sure the ice is right
The icing on a cake can fulfil a number of requirements. It can be used to make a cake more aesthetically pleasing and can pull together the theme of an occasion. It can be used to keep a cake fresh and help products stand out from their competitors. But icing ...
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Poor weather hits wheat
Continued poor weather is prompting fears of a shortage of bread-making wheat, a decline in quality because of falling protein levels and rising bread prices, as only half the harvest has been completed in some areas.Gary Sharkey, head of wheat procurement at Rank Hovis, told British Baker that between 55% ...
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Heinz soups selected for healthy sales
Heinz has launched a five-strong range of premium soups in response to caterers’ growing interest in health, well-being and nutritional quality.The Heinz Select line features Chunky Farmhouse Vegetable, Rustic Minestrone, Hearty Mushroom, Tangy Tomato & Basil and Sweet Carrot & Coriander varieties, which are all based on leading retail varieties.The ...
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Going, going, gone...
A piece of very old cake has been sold at auction for a whopping £1,000; though admittedly, the item in question was actually an 8 x 9-inch slice from Charles & Diana’s 1981 Royal Wedding cake.The white icing with a marzipan base had a sugared onlay of the Royal Coat-of-Arms, ...
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Ginger spice in the spotlight
Ginger Sensation is the new cake mix from ingredients manufacturer Macphie. The latest addition to the Sensations cake mix range, it has a warm spicy flavour and contains pieces of crystalised ginger. It is free from artificial colours, flavours, preservatives or hydrogenated fats and comes in 12.5kg packs, with only ...
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In the market for... five-a-day
== by bakery consultant Wayne Caddy ==The five-a-day recommendation on fruit and vegetables is important to both the food industry and to consumers. It makes sense and is easy to understand. So if consumers have a good awareness and understanding of five-a-day, can bakers target incremental sales with products specifically ...