In this retrospective edition we pick some moments from 2013, a great year for Cambridge food and drink with a myriad of new cafes and restaurants, as well as events, such as the first Eat Cambridge in March, which was a great success.
So join Alan, Matt and Ruth as they give us a roundup of the year, plus some interesting food news occurring across the city over the next few weeks.
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– 14th December 2013: Christmas ideas from The Art of Meat, Aoife Maxwell and Books for Cooks in Notting Hill. Tom Lewis selects the best value quality wines & Estefania Led Ramos delivers fresh tapas to your door, and a look back at the Mill Road Winter Fair.
– 1st December 2013: Gorilla Kitchens! And interview Jay Scrimshaw of Urban Street Kings, the Franglais Kitchen supper club and how to make a good soufflé with the apprentice chefs at the Cambridge Regional College.
– 16th November 2013: The Park restaurant at Cambridge Regional College, at the Norfolk Street Bakery with Stella Pereira, a feature on Ingredients4chefs, an on-line mail order outlet from Bury. Aoife Maxwell creates another great cocktail concoction & Tom Lewis talks about Beaujolais wines.
– 2nd November: Featuring The Cambridge Food & Wine Society, Cambridge Regional College’s Culinary Competition. The newly opened AfternoonTease on King Street, the Bourn Cookery Book & Caroline Biggs on the Eat Cambridge 2014 festival.
– 19th October 2013: How to be a Master of Wine, with Brett Turner. Aoife Maxwell compares the quality and price of vodkas, we hear about the re-opening of The Anchor pub on Silver Street, and investigate the new Rhode Island Diner on Cherry Hinton road.
– 5th October 2013: We look at diets, with information from Dietician Helen Davies. In addition Tom Lewis introduces us to Orange wines, and mixes wine and music analogies in his own inimitable way.
– 7th September 2013: In this edition we check out the new wine bar in the Cambridge Wine Merchants on Bridge Street, chat with Fiona McDuff; the winner of the Cambridge Bake Off, explore Coast on Trinity Street, and Tom Lewis brings us more wine recommendations.
– 24th August 2013: With news on The Pint Shop (opening in November), cocktails with Aoife Maxwell and bubble tea courtesy of Boba-licious. Interviews with The Moonshine Brewery, the latest beer festival at The Hopbine, and more from Tom Lewis on wines.
– 10th August 2013: Addressing the decline of the local butcher’s. Also interviews with The Olive Grove on Regent Street, a catch up with Cafe Aromi on Bene’t Street, and wine and music analogies with Tom Lewis.
– 27th July 2013: Asking what affects the price and availability of food on our shelves? Also featuring interviews with Cambridge Food Cycle, the Food Bank on Hills Road and Verrecchia’s Ice Cream and Catering.
– 13th July 2013: With Jack’s Gelato, Tom Lewis and his summer wines, Anne Prince talking about Independent Retailer month, more on the local street food scene & highlights from the Cambridge Bake Off.
– 29th June 2013: Paying a visit to the Taste of Cambridge food stall, more from Books for Cooks, the science of honey with Steve Poyser, new product Crane’s alcoholic cranberry drink and more summer wines from Tom Lewis.
–15th June 2013: The new Merhaba Turkish restaurant on East Road, Carol Reynolds of Reynolds Sweets (Part 2 of a 2-part interview), Cafe Sicilia on Regent st. The Norfolk Cider Co. Interviews with Mapley Foods (Canadian syrup) and Saints & Sinners Preserves. The Bridge Street Beer Festival, Cambridge Vinopolis and Summer wines from wine critic Tom Lewis.
– 18th May 2013: With Emerald Foods from Cambridge Market, a preview of this years’ Cambridge Beer Festival, talk with Carol Reynolds of Reynolds Sweets (Part 1 of a 2-part interview), more from Ooshi on bubble tea, and wines of the month from Tom Lewis.
– 4th May 2013: Trying out Bubble tea with Ooshi, visiting the Ely Gin Company, Nana Mexico, information on additives with Dr. Sue Bailey and crowd pleasing wines from Tom Lewis.
– 20th April 2013: Featuring the opening of Cafe Aromi, French patisserie Gourmandises, the Cambridge Community Cafe Project, and Tom Lewis’ wines of the month for April.
– 6th April 2013: Talking Austrian wines with Tom Lewis, bread with Alan Ackroyd of Cobs Bakery (Part 2 of a 2-part interview), we put your food & drink questions to Food Scientist Dr. Sue Bailey, meet up with Rachel Hewlett of ‘The Biscuit Jar’, and find out about ‘Cook4Life’ classes at Coleridge Community College.
– 23rd March 2013: We discuss the outcome of the recent ‘Eat Cambridge’ event with Caroline Biggs, chat with Alan Ackroyd of ‘Cobs Bakery’ (Part 1 of a 2-part feature), discuss the upcoming beer festival at ‘The Green Man’ in Grantchester, check out The Larder’s new premises at Burwash Manor, find out the latest from Cambridge Food Tours, and sit in on the food & drink debate at Corpus Christ lecture theatre.
– 9th March 2013: Highlighting a small selection of fairtrade wines with Tom Lewis, catching up with an ‘Eat Cambridge’ organiser Sian Townsend, an interview with Chan Yip of the Bridges Patisserie, discover the latest news about Pavitts Pies, visit Cafe du Creme on Quayside and meet Charlie Stocker, who wants to be the first Michelin starred chef in Essex.
– 23rd February 2013: Featuring interviews with Rosie Sykes, head chef at Fitzbillies, The Rockers Steakhouse on Mill Road, The First Rule Supper Club and the gluten-free foods available from the Gluten Tuten stall in Market Square.
– 9th February 2013: With the newly opened Cambridge Brew House on King street, Historian Becky Proctor on local food history, sherry with Tom Lewis & an update on ‘Eat Cambridge’ the food & drink festival beginning on 9th March.
– 26th January 2013: We talk about the ‘Eat Cambridge’ food & drink fortnight (& festival) with Caroline Biggs, select wines for Valentines, catch up with current food trends at the ‘Books for Cooks’ bookshop AND the one of the latest trends; salt beef with Andrew Northrop Butchers on Mill Road. Also with clips from this years ‘Seedy Sunday’ in Trumpington.
– 5th January 2013: Ushering in the new year with a fond look back at the ‘best of 2012’; hand-picked by Matt & Alan to give you a taste of the variety of what’s on offer from growers, brewers, sellers, producers, restaurateurs & events in & around Cambridge.