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You may have been stuck in front of the TV or sitting in a stadium the last week or so, but The Artisan Food Trail have been out talking with producers, sampling some fantastic produce and getting together some great summer competitions for you - Win tickets to Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival and a SuperFast Thermapen worth over £56 from TomsGadgets.com.

Just as our last email was winging its way to you we heard from Davids Chilli Oil and Filbert’s Fine Foods - both award winners at the Taste of the West Awards. Congratulations to both of them.

This also reminds us that you have until 12th August for your nominations for the Radio 4 Food & Farming Awards 2012 - perhaps an AFT Producer or someone for The Derek Cooper Award (nudge, nudge).

Now, let’s see what’s been going on in July and coming up throughout August...

Seasonal, well hung meat with unparalleled flavour, sourced from the wilds of Britain - delivered to your door.

The Blackface Meat Company believes passionately in the link between a healthy landscape and the highest quality meat. The two are so closely bound that the flavour of their products is of the land itself: the heather and the berries; the wild grasses and fresh waters of the burns and streams found in the most beautiful, unspoilt regions of Britain.

Blackface Meat Company are a family business, rearing Blackface sheep and Galloway cattle on their farm in the South West of Scotland, allowing the sheep to roam over 6000 acres of heather hills. They source slow grown ‘Iron Age’ pork and poultry from nearby farms plus wild game.

Find out more about Blackface Meat Company…

Many things are easy to take for granted, foodstuffs especially so.

Most of us don’t have to think an awful lot before we put something into our mouths and many certainly don’t need to consider whether it may be harmful to their wellbeing.

Living gluten free is not always as straightforward as it should be as so many foods contain gluten from various sources, wheat being the most known.

There is much confusion concerning the subject, so we found out more from AFT’s Industry Expert, Priya Tew of Dietitian UK, to get the facts straight.

Read more about Life without gluten…

Priya Tew of DietitianUK

To find out more about Priya and her business -

visit Priya's website

Win 1 of 2 pairs of day passes to the Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival in Suffolk this September

Courtesy of The Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival,

we have 2 pairs of day passes

to give away for this years festival being held on the

29th and 30th of September.

The festival also hosts an impressive two-day programme of talks, workshops and cookery demonstrations from top chefs. Confirmed Chefs that they will be visiting in 2012 include Henry Harris, Matthew Fort, Angela Hartnett, Valentine Warner and Emma Crowhurst as well as many of the finest local Suffolk chefs.

Visit our website to enter…

Win a pair of tickets for the day of your choice to this years Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival

Win a SuperFast Thermapen Cooking Thermometer from TomsGadgets.com

This ergonomic, water resistant and stylish kitchen acessory is called 'superfast' for a reason - it can read temperatures in just 4 seconds!

Chefs, cooks and caterers have been using colour-coding for chopping boards and knives for many years now. Maybe now is the time to update your thermometers with the colour-coded SuperFast Thermapens. Reading temperatures in just 4 seconds could save you from disaster when tempering chocolate and stopping your sugar turning to toffee when you don't want it to.

Visit our website to enter…

Win this SuperFast Thermapen from TomsGadgets.com:

Choose 1 of 9 colours to match your kitchen

Meet more of the producers already on The Artisan Food Trail:

#Brownies, Absolute Indian, Agnes Rose, Alan Coxon, Alder Tree, Annie’s Market Garden, The Artisan Smokehouse,

Baileys Real Food, Blackface Meat Company, Bray’s Cottage Pork Pies, Breckland Orchard, Briggs' Shetland Lamb,

Cansford Farm, Capsicana Chilli Co, Cardona and Son, Cotswold Gold, David’s Chilli Oil, Edible Ornamentals,

Fancy That from Wharfedale, Filbert’s Fine Foods, Food Safari, Fudge Kitchen, Gladleys Deli-Bistro, Great Glen Game,

Hafod Cheese, Handmade by Hadley’s, Honeysuckle Cakes, Hope Valley Ice Cream, Monkeypoodle Cake Company,

Mortimer Chocolate Company, Morton’s Traditional Taste,

Nutty Tarts Gifts & Goodies, Paganum Produce, Peachey’s Preserves, Pilkington Farms, The Meat Course at Trealy Farm,

The Red Cat Partnership, Samphire, Simply Ice Cream, Steven Kitchen, Trotter’s Independent Condiments, Wild Trail Foods,

Womersley Fruit & Herb Vinegars, Yare Valley Oils

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AFT Approved

AFT Approved

AFT Approved

It has taken Alan Coxon a decade to create and perfect his vinegars. The lengthy research, even down to the development of the bottle design, all carried out by Alan, prompted him to remortgage his house. It has been a long hard road, but his determination has finally brought to fruition some truly special products..
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On one of our recent food finding trips, we finally got to see Handmade by Hadley’s Ice Cream Dub and bought ourselves some ice cream. We chose Raspberries & Cream and Pistachio – these were served in Hadley's very patriotic British pots complete with colour coordinated spoons to match the ice cream.
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Peachey's Preserves are the real deal. Only the best ingredients go into each jar, much of them sourced and grown locally (they are based in Alburgh, Norfolk). The label says 'handmade' and the ingredients list could easily be understood by your grandmother..
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