Take a Journey with Better Food

Bristol's best-loved Independent Food Retailer, the  is hosting a series of food journeys during the Bristol Food Connections Festival. With throngs of people flocking to Bristol's city centre, these lovely days out offer the chance to escape the crowds for a day and experience something different.

Each journey is quite simply an amazing opportunity to see for ourselves where our food comes from and what it takes to produce it.  You'll visit farmers, growers and producers, hear their stories, taste the cheese/beer/bread and meat that they make/rear/grow and learn to cook with it too.

There are limited places available and everything's included in the ticket price which ranges from £25 for  A Ploughman's Day Out (Saturday 3rd May) with cheese and beer to taste, up to £45 for From Field to Fork (Wed 7th May)  - that includes a butchery demo, cookery workshop and a good lunch at our very own Square Food Foundation. 

Your Daily Bread

(Saturday 10th May) for adults and children takes in a trip to Abbey Farm in Cirencester.

You'll mill your own wheat and take it home, have a hearty miller's lunch of homemade soup and bread and then travel onto the world-famous Hobbs House Bakery where you'll taste their beautiful bread, have afternoon tea and treat yourself to something from the bakery shop.

Every ticket holder gets a reusable bag donated by ethical superstar Triodos bank.  Book your tickets today -  escape the festival crowds and take your own food journey with Better Food Company. 

All travel and transport, tastings and meals are included in the ticket price.

http://www.betterfood.co.uk/events/bristol-food-connections-food-journeys/

Cooking up a storm at Bristol Food Connections

At Square Food, we can hardly contain our excitement around Bristol’s first Food Connections Festival that takes place from 1st-11th May 2014. The festival programme is chock-full of events and activities with barely an hour during the full 10 days when there isn't something to see, cook, eat, watch, listen to or learn. 

For Square Food, this is an exciting time.  To kick off our programme of events, we're cooking dinner for none other than the finalists and VIPs of BBC Radio 4’s Food & Farming Awards. Under Barny's careful guidance, his team of chefs that include students from our Back in the Kitchen workshop, our Kids Simple Suppers workshop and some of our Private Masterclasses, are cooking up a feast to showcase the very best fish, meat, vegetables, cheese, beer, bread and more from the star-studded line up.

And it doesn't stop there.  Other Square Food activities during the Food Connections Festival include:

Drop in & Bake! Tuesday 6th May at SFF’s teaching kitchen

Open to anyone who fancies learning how to make perfect pizza and the lightest loaves in a friendly, hands-on setting. Classes run throughout the day - come along and learn to make beautiful bread which you'll bake in our outdoor oven.  To book your place, email us at info@squarefoodfoundation.co.uk. Places are free but we ask for a suggested donation of £2.50 per head.

Farm Trail - from field to fork. Wednesday 7th May

A one-day workshop that starts at Fernhill Farm near Compton Martin and ends at SFF’s teaching kitchens. Join SFF and the Better Food Company on a journey from farm to kitchen with information on rearing, shearing, butchery as well as plenty of hands-on cookery.  Book tickets at www.betterfood-sheep.eventbrite.co.uk

Heads Up: Supporting cooking in the National Curriculum, Thursday 8th May, 6pm – 8pm at SFF’s teaching kitchen

To launch our Primary Schools Partnership, Square Food Foundation invites Bristol’s Primary Head Teachers to a twilight session – you’ll hear from two of our partner schools about how Square Food Foundation has helped them understand how they can make September’s School Food Plan work for them.  To book your free place, email us at info@squarefoodfoundation.co.uk

The Park Marketplace & Pizza Cafe, 11am – 4pm, Friday 9th May at The Park, Knowle West

To launch The Marketplace at The Park; SFF and The Park Community Centre are joining forces to bring you an array of locally grown and produced food and crafts from a selection of local traders. Barny will be cooking up a storm in our wood fired oven with bread workshops happening throughout the day. There’ll be food, drink and entertainment as well as plenty of goodies to buy and sample. Join SFF that evening from 6pm for home-made pizza, straight from their outdoor oven and a glass of wine.

The winner is...

Hot on the heels of Square Food's latest All about Fish Masterclass, the generous and literary crowd at Quadrille Food have given us three spanking new copies of Nathan Outlaw's newest cookbook to give away to Square Food Fans. Titled Nathan Outlaw's Fish Kitchen, it's so new that it's not yet published. But Square Food were offered a lucky sneak preview and boy does it look good. With a foreword from Heston Blumenthal and photography by David Loftus, this is a serious cookbook.

There are over 70 recipes to work your way through, each based around sustainable fish and easy-to-find ingredients. Nathan divides his recipes between cooking techniques - and as such, there are chapters on raw, cured, pickled, smoked, barbecued and more.

With simple instructions and suggestions for the types of fish that are best suited to which cooking method, it's an inspiring, easy-to-follow and above all useful guide to cooking fish. Our favourite recipes include Scallops with hazelnut butter and watercress and a Seafood burger with celeriac and apple salad.

And with all that preamble over and done with, the winners of these beautiful books are:

1. Jon Mason

2. Hilary Long

3. Debbie Cornwell

Congratulations!

And if all that talk of fish has left you raring to pick up your filleting knife, then book onto Square Food Foundation's next All about Fish with Barny Haughton on Saturday, 11th October 2014, 10am - 3pm. BOOK HERE

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