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Family-friendly event will share practical ways to cut food waste

The award-winning charity, Exeter Food Action, will host the free one-day Exeter Food Action Festival in Princesshay Square on Sunday 20 September, from 10.30am to 4pm.

The event will celebrate the charity’s work rescuing surplus food and redistributing it across Exeter and Devon, while inspiring local people to think differently about food waste.

The Exeter Food Action Festival will offer a hands-on, engaging and accessible programme designed to encourage local people to find out more about cutting food waste, saving money and discovering simple, practical ways to make...

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Savour an 'Indian Summer' with BBQ recipes from Denley's Essence of India

We’ve all got our fingers crossed for a sunny Bank Holiday this weekend, and the extra day off means only one thing – barbecue time! And while there’s no denying the satisfaction to be had from keeping it simple with sausages and burgers, with a little preparation you can produce an alfresco feast that will really impress your guests. Here, Jamil Miah, the curry expert behind Topsham’s award-winning Denley’s Essence of India Restaurant & Curry School, shares his favourite BBQ recipes.

Denley’s BBQ marinade for chicken Ingredients: 10 skinless chicken drumsticks 1½-2 tsp garlic...

Healthy and hot... Introducing Rapeseed Chilli Oil

With the forecast set for more warm weather over the next few weeks, it's still the perfect time to enjoy eating fresh, delicious dishes outside. Add a splash of South Devon Chilli Farm's new Cold Pressed Rapeseed Chilli Oil, which has been made with rapeseed oil from the award-winning Bell & Loxton, to give your food a spicy, tasty new twist. South Devon Chilli Farm's Cold Pressed Rapeseed Chilli Oil, which comes in an elegant 250ml glass bottle, is currently available both online at www.sdcf.co.uk and in a wide range of deli's and independent stores (RRP £4.65). A blend of South...

Exeter’s historic waterside wine cellars to become new micro brewery

St Austell Brewery, one of the South West’s leading breweries, is planning to invest £1.5million in transforming a derelict 19th century warehouse on Exeter’s vibrant quayside into a brand new pub-restaurant and micro-brewery.

The building, in Commercial Road on The Quay, has been bought leasehold from Exeter City Council by Cornwall’s premier independent brewery, and will be dramatically renovated to create a new venue for the city.

St Austell Brewery is currently revising a planning application for the stone building and hopes to begin renovation works in early 2014, with...

Healey's to host Big Apple Cyder Festival

100 cyders and 100 acts will star in a new festival in September. The Big Apple is a brand new three day event held at Healey’s Cyder Farm, near Perranporth, from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 September 2013. A celebration of the West Country’s cyders and great music, tickets include a tractor ride through the orchards of this working farm and four cyder samples. Commercial director, Joe Healey, said: “September is the perfect time to hold a cyder festival, especially this year as we are looking forward to a bumper harvest. “Festival goers will be able to watch our apples being harvested, then...

Back British farming to put more British food on more British plates

In a year when British farming has received phenomenal backing from consumers, the NFU is urging the public to help turn around a decline in self-sufficiency that means the UK produces just 62 per cent of its own food.

Starkly, our current self-sufficiency rate means that today, August 14, is the day when British food supplies would run out if all the food produced in Britain in a year was stored and eaten from January 1. The NFU is determined to reverse this trend and is launching a Charter looking for the public, politicians and food industry to sign, pledging their support....

RHS Garden Rosemoor hosts an Autumn-long Festival of Food & Drink

Award-winning South West based garden Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Rosemoor , is holding a series of events this Autumn to tantalise the taste buds in celebration of the area’s prominence as a specialist supplier of food and drink to top chefs and restaurants all over the country.

The events kick off with Rosemoor’s Local Produce Show on 17 August when local growers and producers bring the finest examples of their efforts to the garden to be judged and for visitors to view. Winners from across the region will be crowned ‘best in the West’ in over 65 categories, including...

Vive La Culinary Revolution at the Exeter Street Food Market

From the bustling streets of New York to the covered markets of London, there is a revolution in progress. Thankfully this is not the blood, sweat and tear gas sort of revolution, but a culinary one – a revolution in street food. This delicious uprising is being led by an ever-growing number of al-fresco gastronomes, each bringing their own brand of unique gourmet food to the masses quite literally at street level.

For us Brits the idea of street food may once have conjured up images of dubious burger vans serving suspicious looking “meat” deep fried to within an inch of its life....

Call for producers to vote for Great Taste Shop of the Year

As the results of Great Taste 2013 are released, a new category has been added to the Awards scheme - that of Great Taste Shop of the Year. The idea is simple, as producers go on line to discover their results, they will be invited to nominate and vote for the shop that in their opinion deserves to be Great Taste Shop of the Year. This is simply the best food and drink producers choosing the best shop - a butcher, baker, delicatessen, farm shop, village or community shop, or food hall - in fact any shop with a deli offering. John Farrand, Managing director of the Guild of Fine Food,...

Learn to cook fabulous, fresh fish with Manna from Devon Cooking School

The latest craze to take the country by storm is cooking fabulous fresh fish in a wood-fired oven. It is the perfect way to create delicious, healthy and locally sourced dishes which will impress all.

David and Holly at Manna from Devon Cooking School count themselves extremely lucky to be only a stone's throw away from Brixham, one of the most important fishing ports in Europe and the UK's largest fish market. This gives them access to a wide selection of the best fish in the country.

They run a number of ‘Fabulous Fish’ classes throughout the year (7 September; 12 and 16...

Happy Mondays starts today at Princesshay

Visit Exeter's Princesshay shopping centre every Monday in August and enjoy great deals and discounts when dining at restaurants and cafes in the area.

To celebrate the summer holidays, visitors and families to the centre can also enjoy playing giant summer games on a turfed green in the main square.

Get snapped in a groovy campervan photo booth with Exeter’s Heart radio and enjoy chances to win fab prizes at the Spin and Win station in Princesshay Square.

Want to eat for less this August? All you need to do is register (by filling in the form here ) for your...

Food & Drink

Family-friendly event will share practical ways to cut food waste

Savour an 'Indian Summer' with BBQ recipes from Denley's Essence of India

Healthy and hot... Introducing Rapeseed Chilli Oil

Exeter’s historic waterside wine cellars to become new micro brewery

Healey's to host Big Apple Cyder Festival

Back British farming to put more British food on more British plates

RHS Garden Rosemoor hosts an Autumn-long Festival of Food & Drink

Vive La Culinary Revolution at the Exeter Street Food Market

Call for producers to vote for Great Taste Shop of the Year

Learn to cook fabulous, fresh fish with Manna from Devon Cooking School

Happy Mondays starts today at Princesshay

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