Food Matters: Eatery game for a money-raiser

The Hepworth, near Holmfirth, held a Monopoly-themed charity fund-raiser and invited selected guests to sample the restaurant's contemporary British food made from fresh local produce, and win prizes from its catalogue of local suppliers as they worked their way around a customised Monopoly board.

Jonathan Tiffany and Kristieanne Travers, bought the former Cragrats Brasserie from administrators 12 months ago.

A year-long transformation followed, from the building of a dedicated, successful team and sourcing of quality Yorkshire produce to the development of a new menu and the final step of refurbishing the restaurant's interior, rebranding and relaunching it as The Hepworth.

Mastercalss with core values

To celebrate the British apple season, The Cooking Rooms in York invites the public to a masterclass with Clippy (aka Michelle McKenna), founder of Clippy's Apples, advocate of the British apple and pioneer in the world of preserves, on November 27.

It is part of a nationwide tour in some of the UK's most prestigious cookery schools. It all makes sense in these "lean" times.

For UK tour dates, visit www.preservingthenation.org