Omelette Making Competition - 22/01/2012
We had lots of entries in our omelette making competition. The fastest time was 25 seconds and it was recorded by David Nestor (pictured). David won £50 of vouchers and is going to enjoy returning the Food Centre to spend them.
Farmhouse Breakfast Week - 12/01/2012
Come and join us for Farmhouse Breakfast Week 2012. We are celebrating the Great British breakfast with lots of offers and fun stuff too. You can get our award winning full breakfast in the Conservatory Barn Cafe for just £5 from January 13th-29th. On Sunday January 22nd we are having an omelette making competition al la Saturday Kitchen so you can compete for the accolade of fastest omelette maker. There are also some great offers on breakfast ingredients:
99p for Half-a-Dozen Free Range Local Eggs
2 for £5 on Gloucester Old Spot Bacon & Sausage Packs
2 for £3 on our Award Winning Black Pudding
Breakfast Blend Coffee Only £4 each
Full Breakfast in the Conservatory Barn Cafe Only £5
Make your breakfast the most important meal of day by getting the ingredients from Ludlow Food Centre. See you soon!
World Cheese Awards - 30/11/2011
The World Cheese Awards were held last week at Birmingham’s NEC. The event was part of the BBC Good Food Show that saw thousands of eager foodies turning out to sample and buy food. The World Cheese Awards had entries in countless categories from cheese makers large and small. Our very own cheese makers, Dudley Martin and Paul Bedford, entered three of our cheeses: Lady Halton Smoked, Remembered Hills and Croft Gold. In 2008 Croft Gold won a Silver Award and at this year’s awards it picked another Silver. It is rare for a cheese to win multiple awards and we are really proud of our Dairy team for keeping their standards so high. However, they had even greater success this year with Lady Halton Smoked which won a Gold Award! Lady Halton Smoked is the newest of our cheeses and it picked up an award at the British Cheese Awards in September too. It is carefully smoked using chippings from our estate and when fully matured is a semi-hard cheese. Dudley and Paul are trying to keep on top of demand which on the run up to Christmas is extremely high but come along to our deli to see and sample their cheese and the 80 others we have on offer.
Britain's Best Young Butcher - 21/11/2011
Butchers from around the UK enjoyed an afternoon of networking and celebration, as the 2011 winners were announced at a lunchtime ceremony at The Landmark, London on Wednesday 16th November. The ceremony was sponsored by the WR Wrights and saw 220 industry professionals attend the largest awards ceremony of its type. Andrew Brassington from the Food Centre in Shropshire became the first English winner for 3 years with previous years being dominated by Scottish entries. He beat off competition from two young Scottish butchers to claim the title of best young butcher in Britain. The awards see hundreds of entries each year from all over the UK that are whittled down to three finalists after a variety of assessments. Andrew says,
‘I am over the moon! It’s a great achievement for me and my mentor John Brereton. It’s nice to get credit for the passion and hard work I have put in to the job for the last four years’
Now 20, Andrew started a butchery apprenticeship at the Food Centre 4 years ago working under award winning butcher John Brereton. John currently has 4 apprentice butchers under 25 and is helping them work towards a variety of qualifications including NVQs. John says,
‘With reports of over 1 million young people unemployed I am really proud of all our young butchers for wanting to learn a trade. When you have a trainee as committed and passionate as Andrew it makes the job easy and I am really pleased for him.’
Andrew’s success should be an inspiration to the now 1 million unemployed young people in Britain. There are many professions that are being forgotten with butchery amongst them. If these were more widely promoted we could see more young people getting in to work and driving the economy forward.
Pumpkin Competition Winner - 02/11/2011
Jenson and his mom Kate were triumphant winners at this year’s pumpkin competition. They won a £25 voucher to spend in the Food Centre for their creativity and dedication to all things scary!
Ludlow Food Centre Wins British Sausage Week Regional Final - 03/11/2011
We went to the Hotel Du Vin in Birmingham for the regional final of this year's British Sausage Week and WON! Out of 10 competitors Noddy Holder and the judges thought our Traditional Sausage was the best. Well done to John and our Butchers we are proud of you all.