Food Matters: Fodder brings home the bacon

Fodder, the Harrogate flagship food shop and cafe championed by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, is celebrating a successful first year of trading alongside the 185 farmers and producers the shop supports with orders.
By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Jun 2010, 14:53 BST
Updated 23rd Jun 2010, 14:54 BST

The shop is Britain's first charitable food hall with all profits re-invested to benefit the rural community.

Fodder's local sourcing policy has injected 1.9m into Yorkshire's economy.

In tune with the US's special day

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Visitors to the Copthorne Hotel Sheffield will be seeing stars – and stripes – for the Independence Day celebrations. Chefs from the award-winning18Fifty5 restaurant will do an American inspired menu, served to live music from the Great American Songbook. A four-course dinner will be served to the music on Saturday July 3 at 7.30pm. Tickets are 19.95 per person with booking essential. Details: 0114 252 5480 or www.milleniumhotels.co.uk/copthornesheffield

Milestone for seafood lovers

The tastes of some of the finest seafood in Britain will be available at The Milestone in Sheffield when Fish Week arrives for the second year running from July 5.

To mark the occasion The Milestone will open a shell fish bar filled with wild rock oysters caught from the creeks around Mersea Island, reputed to be among the best in Britain. Go to www.the-milestone.co.uk for more information.

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