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Essentially Catering Summer Meat feature
Steven Creed, Fresh Director at Creed Foodservice, offers some advice on choosing and making the most of cheaper cuts of meat this summer
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler talks to Tracy Morgan-Roberts of the Sue Ryder Care Hospice
Tracy Morgan-Roberts has to be a most versatile, creative and knowledgeable cook. She has been Head Chef for six years at the Sue Ryder Care Hospice in Cheltenham, where the patients suffer with life-threatening illnesses.
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Creed Celebrates the Seasons
When’s a new potato in season? How long is the rhubarb season? When do English apples appear? To answer these questions, and many more, Creed Foodservice has introduced a new ‘seasons’ calendar to help caterers make the most of fresh fruit, vegetables and salads.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler talks to Jeremy and Alexia Benson of Bensons Simply Pressed Fruit
The old adage starts with ‘an apple a day’. At Bensons Simply Pressed Fruit in Sherbourne, in the heart of the Cotswolds, they use around 1000 kilos a day of English apples to produce 300,000 bottles a year of deliciously natural fruit juices.
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Perfect Solution Powers Creed to Reduced Carbon Footprint
Creed Foodservice has invested £30,000 in the installation of the Power Perfector system at its Cheltenham and Ilkeston hubs.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler tells us all we need to know about Evesham Asparagus
LOCAL asparagus is without doubt the most eagerly anticipated of the
spring crops by chefs and amateur cooks everywhere.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler talks to John Sheaves of Taste of the West Ltd.
Taste of the West Ltd, led by chief executive John Sheaves, has been at the forefront of the South West’s food and drink industry, from Gloucestershire to Cornwall, since its inception in 1991.
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New Group Account Manager for Creed
Jodie Nicholls has been appointed by Creed Foodservice as a new Group Account Manager responsible for key national and group accounts.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler talks to Rob Keene of Over Farm Market
Rob Keene at Over Farm Market on the outskirts of Gloucester has been pioneering local food for nearly thirty years. He brought the concept of producing and retailing from a farm environment from America, where he travelled and worked before setting up Over Farm.
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Creed Endorses Regional Apprenticeship Challenge
Creed Foodservice is helping youngsters wanting to break into the foodservice industry by lending its support to Gloucestershire’s 100 in ONEHUNDRED Apprentice Challenge campaign, by offering eight places to young people all aged under 24 to work in its customer service and telesales departments.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler talks to Richard Cook of Severn & Wye Smokery
There are families living on the banks of the river Severn who have been fishing Britain’s longest river for over 400 years. Nowadays they net and hook around 1800 wild salmon in a season, and anywhere between six to a hundred tonnes of baby eels or ‘elvers’ on their incredible return journey to the Sargasso Sea.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler talks to Tim Hall of Halls Bakery
When Halls Bakery baked its first loaf of bread in1903, the Wright brothers were making the first powered flight, and the first motorcar was sold by the Ford motor company. Tim Hall’s great grandfather set up business in Minchinhampton in a single roomed bakery with a coal-fired oven, and delivered his bread in a horse-drawn two-wheeled cart.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler selects a bunch of
flowers for Mother’s Day
Mothers Day is the busiest days of the year for flower wholesalers – often bunched together with the fresh fruit and vegetable sellers in the major wholesale markets, but there’s a blossoming year-round demand from top chefs for edible flowers
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler talks to Jan and Lisa of The Cotswold Handmade Meringue Company
There is some dispute as to whether the 17th century recipe for “white bisket bread” by the English Lady Elinor Fettiplace, or whether the confection first baked by a Swiss pastrycook in the small German town of Meiringen, was the first “meringue”, but there’s no argument today that some of the most delicious ones are being made by sisters Jan and Lisa at The Cotswold Handmade Meringue Company in Nailsworth.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler talks to Benjamin Bowen of Hotel on the Park
Benjamin Bowen is well qualified to succeed in his ambition in making The Hotel on the Park Cheltenham’s only five star Hotel. He trained at the top-drawer Savoy and Claridges hotels in London, looking after visiting royalty and heads of state, before working as a ‘business angel’ for one of Britain’s largest banks, turning around failing catering businesses.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler looks at the famous Gloucester Old Spots
Some of Britain’s best known food has formed part of our daily fare for so long that it was named after the region or town where it first appeared, and Gloucestershire is no exception.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler eyes-up aphrodisiacs
for Valentine’s Day
The restaurant business loves Valentines Day. Chefs have the opportunity to sex-up their menus for a busy night with some specially created dishes – usually with the inclusion of foods known for their aphrodisiacal properties.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to farmer Leonie McIntosh
Free range, barn reared, farm assured, red tractor, organic, battery, local? Does anyone know what exactly any of this means? Is it based in actual regulation or are they just labels – misunderstood by many in the food industry, from producers to shops and restaurants?
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to farmer Will Speakman
Once Christmas is over, and the January snows have melted away, we’re all looking for signs of the long-awaited spring. Newborn lambs bouncing in the fields is a welcome promise of longer and warmer days.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to Rob Rees MBE
Rob Rees MBE is one of those people you meet and wonder “where do they get their energy?” Rob travels the world advising public bodies on such things as school meal provision, writes magazine columns on food, sits on government committees.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to Tom Russell of Shipton Mill
Shipton Mill near Tetbury has been milling flour for a thousand years and is recorded in the Domesday Book. In the 1300’s the mill-owner refused to pay the local priory for the fishing rights in the millstream, so the monks sent over their heavy mob and carted away the millstones.
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Recent bad weather - T'is 'snow problem' for Creed Foodservice
The recent bad weather brought it's challenges but we are very proud to say that unlike some of the other major Wholesalers; every delivery vehicle left our warehouses on time.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to Diana Smart
There’s an old saying in the countryside, that hares in the pasture are a sign of good cheese being made, and that’s why Diana Smart’s best cheese is called Haresfield. “We always see hares in springtime,” said Diana, 83, at her family dairy farm in Churcham, near Gloucester.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to Shaun Naen of Gloucestershire College
Shaun Naen is head chef and lecturer at Renaissance, the training kitchen and restaurant at Gloucestershire College in Cheltenham. Every year he takes under his wing around ten Stage 3 aspiring chefs and coaches them in ‘reality’ kitchen – the last step in a three year learning journey before they venture into a professional environment.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to Martin Haines of Chipping Campden
Brussel sprouts may have been voted Britain’s most hated vegetable but we still chomp our way through around 35,000 tonnes of them a year, and 2,500 tonnes of them are grown under our Gloucestershire noses by brothers Martin and William Haines of Chipping Campden.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to Rob and Sue Warren of Oakley Farm
If you take doorstep deliveries of fresh milk in Gloucestershire, the chances are some of your milk has come from Oakey Farm in Moreton Valence in the vale of Berkeley.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to David and Helen Everitt-Matthias of Le Champignon Sauvage
DAVID and Helen Everitt-Matthias are the owners of Le Champignon Sauvage restaurant in Cheltenham – the only two Michelin starred restaurant in Gloucestershire and oneof only 15 others in the UK holding this culinary
badge of honour.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to Jane Veer of Winstone's Ice Cream
WINSTONES Cotswold Ice-cream is perched on top of Rodborough Common with views of the five valleys of Stroud.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to Harry Robertson
MY local food hero this week is Harry Robertson, owner of The Four Anjels Bakery located just outside the beautifully unspoilt north Cotswold village of Blockley.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to Paul Keene
FARMING, they say, is a way of life, and the Keene family can certainly claim
to have farming in the blood. Paul Keene, of Primrose Vale in Bentham, can trace his farming roots back to 1709 when his ancestors were tenant farmers near Chepstow.
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Local Food Heroes - Stephen Wheeler speaks to Wyndham Weeks
REAL butter may well be one of life’s more indulgent little luxuries – but its journey from farm to plate wouldn’t be possible without the artisan skills honed to perfection by generations of butter makers.
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Local Food Heroes - Mise en Place
Stephen Wheeler, commercial manager at speciality food company Mise en Place, now part of Cheltenham-based Creed Foodservice, is responsible for sourcing the best food ingredients for top chefs across the country.
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Creed Foodservice: Sustainable Trading
Philip de Ternant, Operations Director at Creed Foodservice says: “We have invested £750 000 this year in upgrading our fleet to deliver enhanced fuel efficiency and the most efficient fleet refrigeration available.
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Christmas Comes Early for Creed
More than 150 dinner ladies, chefs and caterers from across Gloucestershire flocked to Cirencester’s Royal Agricultural College to find out what’s on the menu this Christmas at the Creed Foodservice Christmas ‘Farmers Market’
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Getting into the Christmas spirit!
To help customers prepare for the festive season, Creed Foodservice has announced that it is again running its popular ‘Spirit of Christmas’ gift promotion.
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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!
Creed Foodservice, the Staverton-based food wholesaler, is celebrating its first year as nominated sole supplier to SOHO Coffee Co. – one of the South West’s leading coffee shop chains.
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Creed Foodservice Wins Major National Account
Creed Foodservice, the Cheltenham and Ilkeston based food wholesaler, has won a major national account to supply Out of Town Restaurant Group, which operates branded shopping mall units throughout the UK.
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Creed Catering Supplies restructures for growth in 2009
Following strong and sustained sales growth of 39% in 2008, family-owned Creed Catering Supplies has restructured its management teams to ensure the effective delivery of the company's strategic plan for 2009, and beyond.
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Creed Catering Supplies and SOHO Coffee reduce food miles in groundbreaking partnership
Creed Catering Supplies is working in partnership with food and coffee retailer SOHO Coffee to supply food for its network of stores.
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Creed Catering Supplies on-track with new Ilkeston distribution centre
The Creed Catering Supplies distribution centre, which opened in July this year, is now fully operational, employing over 35 new staff.
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Rob Rees MBE - The Cotswold Chef™ launches the cookery book for cooks who care
Rob Rees MBE, one of the UK's leading chefs is to launch a new cookery book – The Book for Cooks Who Care – at The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) Southfield Care Home, Stroud, Thursday, 30th October, 2008.
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Caterers get a taste for speciality and local food at the Mise en Place re-launch
To re-launch speciality food wholesaler, Mise en Place, producers from Gloucestershire and surrounding counties are invited to showcase their food and drink at Cirencester’s Royal Agricultural College on 25th June, 2008.
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