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With British Food Fortnight here, Essential Cuisine are prouder than ever to be official partners of Love British Food – the leading national promoter of UK produce. Essential Cuisine products already form the base of some of the UK’s best loved dishes, from pies and gravies to casseroles, soups, stews and beyond. Partnered with Love British Food they are promoting a shared mission to encourage the foodservice industry to source local, quality UK ingredients with British Food Fortnight providing the perfect platform to highlight this.

Chef, we’re always talking about turkey! We all know turkey is the nation’s favourite choice during Christmas, it isn’t often people sway from the classic roast dinner on the day. However, we have gathered our top 10 favourite Christmas recipes heroing both beef and pork, ingredients that don’t deserve to be left behind this festive season.

A huge congratulations to Ian Armstrong who is now heading up Innovation and Culinary across Solina UK and Essential Cuisine. Find out about his experience, job role and key objectives in this interview.

Following two exciting rounds of heats held at West Herts College and Sheffield College, thirteen chefs will be cooking in the final exam of the Graduate Awards in September. In the cook-offs, chefs completed a series of practical challenges including an innovative starter using Quorn. The exams were observed by former National Chef of the Year winner, Russell Bateman who heads up the Kitchen exam and the chief pastry examiner, Will Torrent. Over the coming months, finalists will be supported by the Graduate Awards committee who will be sharing mentoring videos and advice in the build-up to the exam. This is an event we are proud to sponsor, and we are rooting for all the finalists.