ALFRED ENDERBY SCOOP SLOW FOOD AWARD

Alfred Enderby has won runner-up for "Best Individual Product" in the Slow Food London Awards for their Grimsby Smoked Haddock.

The Slow Food London Scheme  recognizes and celebrates eateries and artisans who contribute good, clean, fair food to the community and spreads awareness of the Slow Food philosophy and the establishments that support it.

The individual categories are rated by the Slow Food members and friends each year in the Slow Food London Awards.

Richard Enderby of Alfred Enderby said, "It came as a surprise. I did not know it had been taking place. I am particularly pleased because it confirms that our product is consistently good even through the difficult summer months when conditions are against us. It is difficult to keep fish, especially traditionally smoked fish, in good condition during the warm humid weather that we have had in recent months. So to beat off other far less perishable products to come runner up is exceptional."

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VISITENGLAND AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE OPENING

The VisitEngland Awards for Excellence are up and running with applications opening on Wednesday 1st October!

Coinciding with Lincolnshire Day, this is the perfect opportunity to show how excellent Lincolnshire businesses are.

The awards champion best practice and raise the profile of England as a world-class destination and are delivered by VisitEngland working in partnership and collaboration with destinations and businesses across the country.



The 2015 Awards will be open for applications from 1st October with the launch of the new look awards website www.visitenglandawards.org providing details of regional competitions or how to apply directly.

The awards will be open until 9th January 2015.

The 18 categories for the 2015 awards include: Access for All Tourism Award, Bed & Breakfast / Guest Accommodation of the Year, Business Tourism Award, Holiday
Park / Holiday Village of the Year, Large Hotel of the Year, Large Visitor Attraction of the Year, Self-Catering Holiday Provider of the Year, Small Hotel of the Year, Small Visitor Attraction of the Year, Sustainable Tourism Award, Taste of England Award, Tourism Event of the Year, Tourism Experience of the Year, Tourism Pub of the Year, Visitor Information Provider of the Year.

Let us know if you have applied and we will offer support where we can. Keep us up to date with your progress and Good Luck to all potential Select participants. 

REDHILL FREE RANGE PORK SCOOPS TOP AWARD AT GREAT TASTE AWARDS

Redhill Farm Free Range Loin of Pork has been judged to be the number one speciality food in the Midlands and East Anglia region in the 2014 Great Taste Awards, the world’s largest and most rigorous food awards scheme involving over 400 judges and thousands of hours of blind tasting.

A distinguished panel of judges including Sheila Dillon, Presenter of BBC Radio 4 Food Programme and Food Critic and journalist, Charles Campion, blind-tasted in teams to ensure a balance of expertise, age and gender, and commented:

”Lovely looking rack of pork. Golden skin and savoury aromas. The texture is very tender and it carves very well. The fat is nice and sweet and the crackling came up very well. Full flavoured pork as it should be.”  

The judges also awarded it a 3 star Gold and selected it as one of the Top 50 Foods in Britain before nominating it for a prestigious Golden Fork Award.

The Great Taste Awards are renowned as the Fine Food Oscars and the 3 star-system is their equivalent of Michelin Stars for food producers.  Of the 10,000 entries submitted this year, 153 were awarded the ultimate three-star gold with only 9 Golden Forks awarded for Best Regional Speciality. The judging is a lengthy process – everything is blind tasted by knowledgeable teams of judges. Great Taste is simply about taste and quality.  

Redhill Farm’s Golden Fork Award for Best Speciality Food in the Midlands and East Anglia was presented to owners Jane and Terry Tomlinson at the Great Taste Golden Fork Dinner on Monday 8 September at the Royal Gardens Hotel, Kensington – an event which invites hundreds of food producers, speciality food buyers, fine food retailers, chefs and food journalists.

“This is an amazing accolade for us and comes at an import

ant time as we move into our new purpose built production facilities and new farm shop to showcase our national award winning free range pork products to visiting chefs and food writers and provide a light, airy retail environment for our loyal customers.

The judges’ comments are fantastic. We set out to farm and produce the very best free range pork and to be selected as the number one speciality food in a region the size of the Midlands and East Anglia is the most incredible recognition for all our efforts,” comments MD Jane Tomlinson.