If you’re a morning person, book your ticket now for “No small talk before breakfast” – a feast of granola, exercise and all that’s great about the early hours. The Breakfast Festival (no, we hadn’t heard of one before now ...
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Go Green and Get Growing!
Spring Gathering joins forces with Spring Festival Tower Hamlets Food Growing Network’s Spring Gathering is joining forces with the Spring Festival at Chrisp Street Market on 18th April, between 11am and 4pm. As usual there will be stalls, workshops (including ...
Read More »Supermeals from a Supermum for your Super Baby!
Emdad Rahman interviews Zainab Jagot Ahmed, creator of Easy Indian Supermeals for Babies. Zainab Jagot Ahmed is first-time mum to daughter Aaliyah and currently resides in Leicester, England with her husband and two cats. Before she became a mother, Zainab ...
Read More »Things are looking up
Giraffe restaurants are offering you the chance to win a trip to Salzburg to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Sound of Music. Runner up prizes include giraffe vouchers and copies of the Sound of Music DVD. Originally centred ...
Read More »Slugs and snails still top list of garden killers
While animal rights campaigners have done much to raise issues to do with animal welfare, we seldom hear about the havoc that wee beasties can do to poor defenceless plants. Now the Royal Horticultural Society is redressing the balance by ...
Read More »Crumbs! It’s art!
Emdad Rahman speaks to Daisy Brydon. It is not unusual for Daisy Brydon to spend 50-60 hours plotting artistic baking creations. The talented baker was presenting masterclasses and pulling in the crowds during the Foodies Festival at the Truman Brewery ...
Read More »Foodies Festival hits Brick Lane
Emdad Rahman interviews founder Sue Hitchen The Foodies Festival began at the Roxburgh Hotel in Edinburgh. It attracted so many positive reviews that it was moved to the Sheraton and subsequently to Holyrood Park. The show has continued to grow. Now ...
Read More »Hungry and talented?
Young people have the chance to rustle up a three course meal from scratch thanks to a new free class aimed at 13-19-year-olds in the borough. Tower Hamlets Council’s youth arts platform ‘A’ Team Arts has received a grant to ...
Read More »Whittard: the gift you’ll want to keep all to yourself…
Do you remember the days when you went last minute Christmas shopping in Whittard of Chelsea for one of those gift packs which, while suitable for the relative or friend you had forgotten about, was something you fervently hoped you ...
Read More »Strawberry 3: strawberry sandwich
These fab sandwiches in true Alice in Wonderland style are not all that they seem. While they may look like white bread spread with butter and filled with salad they are actually made with thinly sliced white chocolate cake topped ...
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