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Chester Food & Drink Festival 2006

Latest News Gala Dinner & Award Winners......
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Thomasina Miers' Recipes
Recipe 1: Baked new season's garlic Read More..
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Simon Rimmer's Recipes
Recipe 1: Duck with Potato Rosti Read More..
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Lesley Waters' Recipes
Recipe 1: TROUT FILLETS WITH TARRAGON AND BACON Read More..
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For event reports......
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Eat Well Award Initiative at Food & Drink Festival Local Restaurant First with Spring Menu
Councillor Mia Jones, portfolio holder for Health and Well Being is spearheading a campaign to raise awareness in Chester about healthy eating. Chester City Council's Food Safety team will visit restaurants, school and work canteens to highlight the advantages of applying for The Eat Well Award which will be officially launched at the Chester Food and Drink Festival in April. Read More..
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Benedictine at Chester Food and Drink Festival 2006
Benedictine at Chester Food and Drink Festival 2006 Read More..
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Four young chefs steam into the Final
Six talented young chefs became four at a cook off held at West Cheshire College. Read More..
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220,000 bottletops collected by Chester for world record
Top Schools with loads of bottle - 220,000 bottletops collected by Chester for world record Read More..
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Eat Well Award
Restaurants, pubs, canteens and other food premises in Chester could be in line for a special award if they offer healthy menus and maintain rigorous hygiene standards. Read More..
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Top School with loads of bottle
Chester Food & Drink Festival's world record attempt for 2006 is looking good! During the next few weeks schools all over Chester will be getting stuck in making their piece of the massive world beating mosaic which will be completed in the Town Hall Square on April 3. And one school in particular has come out tops. Read More..
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On safari with the Chester Food & Drink Festival
Rural 'Safari' Bus Tours are an added reason to visit Chester's 5th Food and Drink Festival this year. The new excursions take to the road in search of the best food and drink products on offer in their 'natural habitats' across the region. Read More..
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Cheese rolling Cheshire style wins for third year running
After a hardened battle between the big cheeses a team of Cheshire cheese high-rollers narrowly beat old rivals Stilton, blue with cold in the rainy city streets of Chester. Cheshire kept their cool, their title and the cup to roll their way into the record books to launch the fifth Chester Food and Drink Festival to be held over the Easter weekend. Read More..
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Cheese Rolling to Launch Chester Food & Drink Festival 2006 WARNING: Contains cheesy content
on Wednesday 15th March, City Centre down Bridge Street, by the Cross, 11am. Read More..
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Celebrity chefs announced for Food & Drink Festival - more reasons to stay in Chester over Easter
This year's Chester Food & Drink Festival promises an even more impressive line up of celebrity chefs for visitors to the Festival Taste Marquee over Easter. Read More..
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Celebrity Chef: Thomasina Miers' Biography
Thomasina Miers, the winner of BBC 2's MasterChef 2005, is a cook and food writer who has experience of most aspects of the food industry. Currently she is cheffing with Skye Gyngell (consultant food writer for Vogue) at the renowned Petersham Cafe at Petersham Nurseries. The cooking at Petersham is a good match for Thomasina's food philosophy: unfussy, locally-sourced -- much of it from its own kitchen garden -- and organic wherever possible. Read More..
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Celebrity Chef: Simon Rimmer's Biography
Simon Rimmer is an accomplished television presenter and author. Currently co-presenting Great Food Live and Great Food Bites on UKTV Food, Simon also has had two of his own series on Granada - Rimmer's Dinners and Grubs Up, the latter is now in its 2nd series on ITV1 with a third series going into production in summer 2005. Read More..
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Celebrity Chef: Lesley Waters' Biography
A former chef and cookery demonstrator, Lesley Waters' lively personality makes her a popular television cook and a regular member of the team on Ready Steady Cook (BBC 1), and a frequent guest on Good Food Live (UK Food Channel) and This Morning (ITV1). Read More..
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Chester Food and Drink Festival Puts on Weight for Easter 2006
This year's Chester Food & Drink Festival will have an even bigger Marquee, an even more impressive line up of exhibitors and demonstrations and a heavyweight team of celebrity chefs, with star-studded events and awards. Chester Food and Drink Festival Taste Marquee is planned for 15 - 17 April 2006, Easter Saturday to Easter Monday. A Food and Drink Fringe Festival will also take place around the City from 12 - 22 April 2006 involving special offers for accommodation and eating out to excite the whole family. There will also be the famous Cheese Rolling ceremony on 15th March, the Bottle Cap Mosaic World Record Attempt on 3rd April and the Ale Assize around the City on 22nd April. Read More..
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Calling all drinkers!
As part of the run up to Chester Food and Drink Festival 2006 supermarkets, off-licenses, nightclubs, pub landlords and regulars are being asked to collect bottle tops for a 2nd world record attempt. On April 3, 2006, more than 200,000 bottle-tops will be placed in a mosaic at Chester Town Hall as part of a world record attempt that will be accredited by Guinness World Records. Read More..
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First Awards Sponsor Signed in Record Deal for Chester Food and Drink Festival 2006
Shell UK is to be the first Chester Food & Drink Festival Awards sponsor in a record deal announced today. Shell UK has chosen to sponsor the Young Chef of the Year Award for 2006. Read More..
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