Food and Drink

Northampton Beer Festival will be a celebration of county’s drinks makers

May 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

Northampton County Beer Festival is taking place on the 1st to 3rd June 2018, writes Elisha Dexter. The beer festival showcases the finest drinks from the county’s best [...]

Royal Showstopper baking revealed at Althorp

May 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

In an array of baking creations of which Prue and Paul would have been proud, two of the county’s finest cake-makers are now celebrating after being named joint winners of [...]

Bill Urquhart – the brewer who started a micro revolution

April 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

Alaric Neville of the modern Phipps brewery tells the story of the last head brewer of the old Phipps brewery and his determination to keep beer real… In the 1950s and [...]

Cheese of the month: Sparkenhoe Farm Vintage Red Leicester

April 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

Steve and Caroline Ward bring you choice fromages… The 1970s: the decade of bad taste. Terrible clothes, bad haircuts, dodgy racist TV sit-coms and the demise of real [...]

Who won the giant chocolate egg?

April 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

If you’re going to shell out for a giant chocolate egg you want to make sure it ends up in the right hands. That’s why Steve and Caroline at St Giles Cheese [...]

Join the fun at Blackpit Brewery birthday bash

April 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

Silverstone’s Blackpit Brewery is celebrating its first anniversary with a birthday party, writes Elisha Dexter. Over the past year the brewery has produced over 85,000 [...]

Daily Bread sponsors new category at Carlsberg awards

March 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

On the eve of the competition’s launch for 2018/19, it’s been announced that the Carlsberg UK Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards has another slice of sponsorship, [...]

Cheese of the month: Coeur de Neufchatel AOP

February 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

Steve and Caroline Ward bring you choice fromages… Love is in the air once again here at cheese towers. I mean, why would you buy your betrothed flowers when they could [...]

Hope Food Club is a new way to tackle food poverty

February 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

The rising number of food banks around the country has been a constant theme of the current period of ‘austerity’ but a scheme from the Northampton Hope Centre offers a [...]