Chelmsford and Mid-Essex CAMRA 7th Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival. [February] The Triangle Club, Essex County Council, Duke Street, Chelmsford (5 mins from Chelmsford Railway Station)
Open Thu 6-11pm; Fri; 12 noon-3pm + 6-11pm; all day Sat 12 noon-11 pm. Admission: Lunchtimes: card-carrying CAMRA members free, non-members £1. Evenings: card-carrying CAMRA members free, non-members £2. 50+ beers with emphasis on winter brews; also cider & Belgian beers. Souvenir glass. Food available all sessions.

Great British Beer Festival. [August] Campaign for Real Ale. 230 Hatfield Road. St Albans, Hertfordshire AL1 4LW. Tel: 01727-867201. Fax: 01727-867670
The Great British Beer Festival is a celebration of beer from around the UK and around the world. It is Britain's biggest beer festival and attracts around 45,000 beer drinkers.

The Keswick Beer Festival. [June] Tel: 017687 73200 (or 0044 17687 73200) from outside of the UK)

Kent Beer Festival. [July] Tel:/Faxx: 0044 01227 463478

Newark Beer Festival. [May]
The Newark branch of the Campaign for Real Ale will be filling their tented arena with over one hundred traditionally crafted beers, together with a selection of real cider and perry for visitors to sample.

Peterborough Beer Festival. [August] Campaign for Real Ale, Peterborough & District Branch. 49 St Margarets Road, Fletton, Peterborough, PE2 9EA. Tel: 0870 334 0320
The Festival is held in massive marquees on the river embankment in Peterborough. The site is only a few minutes walk from Peterborough Railway Station and from the bus and coach stations. The address is The Embankment (Behind the Key Theatre), Bishops Road, Peterborough PE1 1EF

Peterborough Beer Festival. [August] Campaign for Real Ale, Peterborough & District Branch. 49 St Margarets Road, Fletton, Peterborough, PE2 9EA. Tel: 0870 334 0320
The Festival is held in massive marquees on the river embankment in Peterborough. The site is only a few minutes walk from Peterborough Railway Station and from the bus and coach stations. The address is The Embankment (Behind the Key Theatre), Bishops Road, Peterborough PE1 1EF

Taxonomy Of Biscuits
Biscuits we all love them don't we. But what exactly is a biscuit?
Biscuit comes from the french meaning twice-cooked but don't let that put you off, as the french don't really have a clue about making decent biscuits. Those dreadful Petit Beurre things that they knock out are really nasty. They sound like they are going to be really nice, like some sort of little buttery thing, but they're not. I've seen some where they put a big slab of chocolate on the top in an attempt to make them nice but it was all a bit wrong.

curlypasta.co.uk. Probably the U.K.'s foremost expert on macaroni cheese, and no one knows why.

London Review of Breakfasts. Offers reviews of breakfast spots around town.

Fine Cheese From France
With over 500 French cheeses available in a delicious range of flavours - from the very mild to the quite powerful - there's an almost endless variety to choose from. French cheese is a traditional food that's ideally suited to a busy lifestyle. Perfect for creating super-quick healthy snacks or delicious treats, French cheeses are high in nutrients and big on flavour. Use them in a pasta sauce, sandwich, tossed in a salad or as a topping on a vegetable bake. Or, enjoy them on their own as a meal in their own right.

Abergavenny Food Festival. [September]
Abergavenny Food Festival PO Box 49, Abergavenny, NP7 5XZ Wales. Tel/Fax: 01873 851 643. September are the dates for this year's award-winning Abergavenny Food Festival (Greatest Event in Wales 2003 - Wales Tourist Board). The festival continues to grow and diversify attracting nearly twenty-five thousand people.

The Cambridge Food and Drink Festival. [October] The Alliance Française, 15 Norfolk Street, Cambridge. CB1 2LD
Quality ingredients, put together with expertise and art by a cook, result in conviviality, delight, gusto and gruntlement. So it is our hope that the Festival will provide all sorts of opportunities to enjoy, share, taste, learn, savour. Hence this brochure, full of dinners, demonstrations, tastings, talks and countryside trails.We hope everyone will find something here to enhance (or even re-kindle) the pleasures of the table.

Chelmsford and Mid-Essex CAMRA 7th Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival. [February] The Triangle Club, Essex County Council, Duke Street, Chelmsford (5 mins from Chelmsford Railway Station)
Open Thu 6-11pm; Fri; 12 noon-3pm + 6-11pm; all day Sat 12 noon-11 pm. Admission: Lunchtimes: card-carrying CAMRA members free, non-members £1. Evenings: card-carrying CAMRA members free, non-members £2. 50+ beers with emphasis on winter brews; also cider & Belgian beers. Souvenir glass. Food available all sessions.

Organic Food & Wine Fair. [July] Creativity Events, Garden Organic, Ryton (Near Coventry), Warwickshire, UK. Tel: 01934 813 407. Fax: 01934 813 407
Garden Organic (formerly the HDRA) host this gathering of carefully selected organic food & drink producers with talks and demonstrations.

Soil Association Organic Food Festival. [September] Creativity Events, Bristol Harbourside, Bristol, UK. Tel: 01934 813 407. Fax: 01934 813 407.
The largest celebration of organic food in Europe with over 300 organic producers represented plus a celebrity chef packed demo kitchen, a wide programme of talks and tastings plus the Fringe ­ food themed performance, entertainment & art.

Pulses Information Sheet. The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom. Parkdale, Dunham Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, England WA14 4QG.
Peas, beans and lentils are known as pulses. They are the seeds of plants belonging to the family Leguminosae, which gets its name from the characteristic pod or legume that protects the seeds while they are forming and ripening. With approximately 13,000 species, the family Leguminosae is the second largest in the plant kingdom and it is very important economically.

Whiskey Magazine Online. Whisky Magazine, St Faiths House, Mountergate, Norwich NR1. Tel : 01603 633808. Fax : 01603 632808.
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