All Competitions articles – Page 6
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NewsGreat Yorkshire Competition deadline fast approaching
Butchers have until the Saturday 22nd October to submit their postal entries for the 2016 Great Yorkshire Pork Pie, Sausage & Products Competition, which takes place on 30th October at the Cedar Court Hotel in Bradford.The 28th annual Great Yorkshire Competition will feature pork pie, sausage, black pudding and beef ...
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NewsGoatober comes to the UK for the first time
Goatober, a month long festival and campaign celebrating the billy goat meat industry, is coming to the UK this October for the first time.Goatober supports the use of kid goat meat being used for foods.This festival is already well established in the USA and has been taking place each October ...
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NewsSpecially Selected Pork campaign up for top award
The Scottish Creative Awards has announced Quality Meat Scotland’s radio campaign ‘Do More with Pork’ as a finalist.The 'Do More with Pork' campaign has been announced as a finalist at The Scottish Creative Awards.The awards are run by the marketing magazine, The Drum, and are the most recognised awards in ...
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NewsFMT Food Industry Awards judging kicks off
The product judging for the Food Management Today Industry Awards is currently taking place at Harper Adams University with over 300 products being cooked, tried and tested by the expert judging panel.Product judging is taking place at Harper Adams University.The judges will work their way through the products over the ...
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NewsSenior sausage selector joins British Sausage Week judging panel
The Agriculture and Horticulture Board (AHDB) appointed Yorkshireman James Wilson as its ‘senior sausage selector’ on the judging panel for British Sausage Week’s Best Banger competition, which took place last week.James Wilson was selected as 'senior sausage selector' for British Sausage Week.Wilson was selected after showing his love for sausages ...
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NewsInstitute of Meat confirms Meatup 2017 sponsorship
The Institute of Meat (IoM) will once again sponsor the main competition arena at the Meatup exhibition which takes place at ArenaMK in Milton Keynes on 24th and 25th May 2017.IoM chief executive Keith Fisher is pleased to support Meatup for the fourth time. Keith is pictured with a young ...
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NewsBritish lamb comes out on top in French competition
French consumers have chosen a Quality Standard Mark lamb product from Great Britain as the best product of the year.In a competition organised by Dutch market research agency Q&A, the vacuum-packed cannon come out on top.The winning product: Cannon Of Lamb Glazed With Rosemary And Mustard.In the process of the ...
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NewsFrance crowned World Butchers’ Challenge champions
France have been crowned the winners of the World Butchers’ Challenge, beating teams from Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand in their debut at the event.Each team had three hours to turn a side of beef, a side of pork and a whole lamb into a display of value-added cuts ...
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NewsBritish Sausage Week build up begins with competition judging
Judging for ‘Britain’s Best Bangers’ takes place this week as the build up to the 19th annual British Sausage Week from 31st October to 6th November commences.Head judge and master butcher Keith Fisher will lead the team of judges, which will this year include a ‘senior sausage selector’ selected following ...
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NewsApprentices invited to enter Premier Young Butcher Competition at Meatup
The Premier Young Butcher Competition will return to Meatup at ArenaMK in Milton Keynes next year and butchery apprentices from across the UK are being invited to take part.Last year's Premier Young Butcher winner, James Henshaw.The competition is open to all 18 to 23 year old butchery apprentices throughout the ...
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NewsHannan Meats voted Great Taste Supreme Champion
The title of Great Taste Supreme Champion 2016 has been awarded to Hannan Meats’ Glenarm Shorthorn 4 Rib Roast.(L-R) John Farrand, Guild of Fine Food, Peter Hannan of Hannan Meats and Alex Dower, Harrods.Produced in Armagh in Northern Ireland, the product, dry aged in a Himalayan salt chamber for a ...
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NewsTeam GB set to compete at World Butchers Challenge
The six butchers representing Great Britain at the World Butchers Challenge landed in Australia this weekend ahead of the competition taking place on 10th September in Queensland.Nicknamed the ‘British Beefeaters’, the British team will compete against butchers from Australia, New Zealand and France for the title of Grand Champions.The 'British ...
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NewsJudge wanted for British Sausage Week
Organisers behind British Sausage Week, beginning on Monday 31st October, are searching for a ‘senior sausage selector’ to become one of the judges to taste over 400 sausages entered into the Best Banger competition.All candidates will be asked, as part of their interview, to describe their experiences of sausages, their ...
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NewsWorldSkills butchery competition final six named
The six finalists for the WorldSkills Butchery competition have been named.Hannah Blakey, seen here in action in the Wales heat, will compete in the final.Hannah Blakey, a 17-year-old apprentice at Leeds City College, is both the youngest competitor and the first female to make it to the finals.She will be ...
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NewsTom Parker Bowles to present 2017 Smithfield Awards
British food writer and food critic Tom Parker Bowles will present the 2017 Butchers Q Guild Smithfield Awards at Ironmongers Hall, London on 1st February 2017.Tom Parker Bowles will present the Butchers Q Guild’s 2017 Smithfield Awards.Parker Bowles is a restaurant critic for The Mail on Sunday as well as ...
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NewsChampion butcher crowned at Royal Welsh Show
Mark McArdle, of McArdle Family Butchers of Chirk, has been crowned champion of Wales at the final of the Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) Butchers’ Club butchery competition.The butchery competition took place at this year’s Royal Welsh Show, and featured two finalists under pressure to produce a ...
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NewsGreat Yorkshire Competition to be held in Bradford
The Great Yorkshire Pork Pie, Sausage & Products Competition will be staged at the Cedar Court Hotel in Bradford on Sunday 30th October.Organised by the Confederation of Yorkshire Butchers Councils’ (CYBC), the 2016 competition will be the 28th annual Great Yorkshire Competition.Last year the competition was opened out to entrants ...
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NewsHCC sets up butchery competition
Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) has launched a competition for members of its Butchers’ Club with a meat cutting contest during the Royal Welsh Show.Two successful applicants will be selected to compete for the top spot and will showcase their butchery skills and product innovation using Welsh ...
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NewsButcher sets new sausage world record
Steven Cusack of Davidsons Butchers in Inverurie is now a Guinness World Record holder (subject to Guinness verification) after setting a new sausage-making world record at the Taste of Grampian food festival this weekend.Cusack, who made 54 sausages using a Specially Selected Pork recipe mix in the 60-second time limit, ...
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NewsQ Guild BBQ supreme champion crowned
Robert Alexander Butchers in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, has been crowned overall supreme barbecue champion at the UK final of the Butchers Q Guild 2016 BBQ Competition with its Coffee Crusted BBQ Steak.The Butchers Q Guild’s 2016 BBQ Competition overall supreme champion Drew McKenzie, centre, of Robert Alexander Butchers in Port ...
