January 29th, 2021   |  
Author: Chris Brown   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

And now the end is near, so I face the final curtain… Do you know that the lyrics for My Way were written by songwriter Paul Anka specifically for Frank Sinatra, who had revealed that he wanted to retire and wanted Anka to write one last song for him? Little did Anka know that Sinatra […]

January 22nd, 2021   |  
Author: Chris Brown   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

If the last 12 months have taught us anything it’s that the world is a crazy place but if there’s one silver lining that has brought a smile to our faces, it’s the amount of new, and often weird and wonderful, food combinations that people have come up with. Only this week we learned that […]

January 15th, 2021   |  
Author: Chris Brown   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

“We’re all going on our summer holiday, no more working for a week or two.” Ah, read that first paragraph and imagine listening to the dulcet tones of the great Sir Cliff Richard. Granted, we may just have lost half our readership with that reference (Cliff who we hear the millennials say?) but there’s a […]

January 8th, 2021   |  
Author: Chris Brown   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

We bet the organisers of Veganuary feared the worst when the Government announced lockdown 3.0 this month. The same could be said about the charity Alcohol Change UK, who are behind Dry January. Given January is always the most miserable month of the year, global pandemic or no global pandemic, you could forgive people if […]

January 31st, 2020   |  
Author: Chris Brown   |  
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As you will be aware if your read our blogs (and please spread the word to others if you do) throughout Veganuary (or January as it is known among meat eaters) we have been comparing the vegan dishes launched this month by some of the UK’s biggest chains. There’s one day left in January and […]

January 17th, 2020   |  
Author: Jane Beesley   |  
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The war on meat continues this week with another momentous battle. Following on from the epic struggle between BK’s Rebel Whopper and Greggs’ Vegan Steak Bake, we have pitted two more giants of the fast food industry against each other. In the red corner we have KFC with their Vegan Burger and in the blue […]

January 3rd, 2019   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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This week Greggs have launched a vegan sausage roll (available from today Thursday). McDonalds is following this with its first vegetarian happy meal, it’s safe to say that the meat-free trend is here to stay. More and more people are going vegetarian, vegan, or flexitarian if the thought of giving meat up forever is too […]

January 5th, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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The organisers of Veganuary were very clever when they set up this awareness month a few years ago. Granted, the only other option, if it was about fitting in with the name of the month, was to have it in February (Veganuly just doesn’t right does it?) but January really is the perfect time. After […]

January 12th, 2016   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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No doubt many of you will currently be trying to stay ‘dry’ during January after the boozy excesses of Christmas, so have you thought about doing Veganuary? If you are like us, that is likely to last until this evening when you get that Friday feeling and, let’s face it, we will all have worked […]