Lots of us like to photograph food, though with varying degrees of success. Today we get tips from some local experts on how to make a dish look inviting. The Cambridge History Festival is underway, and it includes a look at some historic food and drink. Festival organiser Caroline Biggs is our guide. Most of us know that eating meat isn't good for … [Read more...]

This week Flavour covers some quite unusual foods. We find out about the food seminars happening at Cambridge University, which have included eating grubs and adult insects and reporting on lab-grown meat. Not quite so exotic, but pretty impressive all the same, is what's on sale at Culinaris in Mill Road, we investigate. Heidi White gives an up … [Read more...]

Flavour reports from the Cambridge Food Assembly, a new, sociable, exciting, and warm, way to buy from local independent food producers. Find out about a city centre shop which ages some cheeses for up to two years, so they're properly mature. Nazima Pathan from Franglais Kitchen talks about the 2016 food trends. Dave Fox from Trumpington … [Read more...]

The team looks back at the food and drink triumphs of 2015 in Cambridge. It was a great year for streetfood, cafes, independent producers, pubs, cookbooks, and therefore for eaters and drinkers. We also take a look forward to the launch, next Wednesday, of the Cambridge Food Assembly, a new way of buying direct from local producers whilst sipping a … [Read more...]

What do people in Cambridge like to eat at Christmas? We find out, and we have some recommendations about what to drink too, including a new specially designed cocktail by Aoife Maxwell. We visit one of Cambridge's new independents, Novi, which opened this year and hear about a new street food provider who will be on the streets of Cambridge next … [Read more...]

Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Ruth Reyes have features on the new Gin Lab that's opened in Cambridge's city centre, Christmas food and wine, and the Churro Bar. Also, Flavour investigates what the effect will be of the government's national living wage on small independents. … [Read more...]

This week's show offers advice on buying fish, and why supermarket fish isn't good enough; best advice and biggest mistake: the owners of Cambridge Independents tell us theirs; blending tea: we visit Cambridge's newest tea company, Strangeways Road tea for a brew and a chat about the art of tea blending; Christmas food: Mill Road butchers tells us … [Read more...]