So What's a Home-Grown Pinta Really Worth?
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ISSUE 10 www.appetitemag.co.uk August/September 2012 TICKLE YOUR tasteBUDS... 18 So what’s a home-grown pinta really worth? Lotta bottle! inside Fast food for Great North Runners // Marco Pierre White // Hairy Bikers-turned-dieters // Afternoon Tea pick ‘N’ mix • TaNdoori TapaS • SizzliNG GrillS • STreeT comboS • curry plaTeS • bombay burGerS NewcaSTle’S firST TaNdoori TapaS Grill kiTcheN opeNiNG auGuST 20Th iT’S The biGGeST eveNT of 2012! The GaTe, NewGaTe STreeT, NewcaSTle upoN TyNe, Ne1 5TG T: 0191 2221181 e : [email protected] www.SpiceGrillkiTcheN.com PLACE YOUR Celebrity chefs - they’re like ORDER 4 READER CLUB buses - a lengthy famine Offers to tickle your tastebuds and then they all turn up at 6 FEED...BACK Reader recipes and news once, right here in appetite! 7 STARTErs Foodie news and views We really are celebrity chef tastic this I’m a great believer in grazing. Particularly month! We have Jean-Christophe Novelli, when it involves butter, cream and cheese. 14 HAIRY DIETErs James Martin, The Hairy Bikers, and They are made from milk and milk is the The Bikers are on a health kick a darkly brooding Marco Pierre White, complete food, so they must be good for who was much admired by our roving you, which is one of many reasons why 17 LUNCH! reporter as he reclined in a purple we’re right behind our dairy farmers. Mind, Turkish delights velveteen booth at the new Hotel Indigo there’s a gang of young bullocks in the in Newcastle. field down our lane who like nothing more 18 NO MILK TODAY? than charging after the dog and I as we How valuable is the home-grown pinta? Not only do we have recipes and chat amble across the field. The farmer says from these culinary luminaries, we have they’re just curious, but the bared teeth 22 BERRIED TREASURES words of wisdom from Olympic silver and threatening moo-ing does make The ultimate strawberries and cream medallist Mike McLeod and a host of you wonder. other athletes, whose recipes for speed 24 IN SEARCH OF MARCO and endurance turn out to be little more Finally, a sad farewell to our columnist He was there, we were too, but would he scientific than hearty food and lots of it, and official appetite hen, Pluck, who has speak to us? Well... which sounds good to me. passed away. It was a premature and sudden end to a life which was largely 26 THE GRAZER This also means that if you’re in training blameless, apart Anna Hedworth heads east for the Great North Run (or in my case from digging in the working up to a slow amble to the village flower beds and 28 FAST FOOD post box) you can start your day on six straying when she Foodie fuel for Great North Runners Weetabix and graze on meat pies all day, was supposed to just so long as you fit in one of those be couped up at 34 FESTIVAL FEASTS high-tech energy drinks somewhere night, safe from The celeb chefs are out in force for the Jane Pikett, Editor along the line. the fox. Ah. region’s big summer festivals 36 TEA TOTAL! The exquisite pleasure that is afternoon tea We want to hear all about the food and drink you love in the North 41THE DIARY East, which means you can get Beautiful people at beautiful foodie places fully involved in the region’s appetite.TICKLE YOUR taste BUDS... WE only dedicated food magazine. 41PLUCK! LIKE! If you like something, we want We had joy, we had fun... to know about it. And if you Editorial 01661 844115 cook something you’re proud Jane Pikett - [email protected] 46 JUST DEssERTS of, email us a photo and a description and Summer loving in a pudding we might even put it on our website or in Advertising 01661 844115 the magazine. Fame at last! Joanne O’neil - [email protected] Email [email protected] Website www.appetitemag.co.uk Designed & Published by Look what turned up when we did a search Unit One, Bearl Farm, Stocksfield, on our image bank Northumberland, NE43 7AL for ‘hairy bikers’. Photography You couldn’t Peter Skelton www.photo-psp.co.uk make it up... Front cover image: Ian Lamming at Acorn Dairies appetitemag.co.uk 3 appetite Club Italian Delicatessen, Coffee Shop and Restaurant Mon - Sat lunch 12 - 3pm, Thur, Fri & Sat dinner from 6pm. St Helen’s Street • Corbridge • Northumberland • NE45 5BE Tel: 01434 634554 www.ilpiccolo.co.uk Win TWO EXclUsive VIP ticKets for AlnwicK FooD Festival’S Novelli Evening Michelin star chef Jean-Christophe Novelli is hosting an exclusive evening event in The Northumberland Hall, Alnwick on Saturday September 22. Jean-Christophe will be demonstrating his world-renowned culinary skills, interacting with the audience and mixing with his guests at the ticket-only extravaganza. The special event includes a buffet, wine or soft drinks and music. The Novelli Evening promises to be a must attend event for serious food lovers welcome to and compere is Northumberland author and food writer Jane Lovett. award winning farm shop and café The VIP winners will also receive two complimentary tickets for Jean- Knitsleys Christophe’s demonstrations held in the Northumberland Hall during Saturday. If you would like to be Mr Novelli’s VIP guests, simply forward your answer Our farm butchery is the heart of to the following question to [email protected] before August our business, and the basis for many 31, 2012. aspects of the shop and cafe. All the meat used in the dishes freshly Q. In which county is Alnwick? prepared for our Granary Cafe Restaurant is provided by our butchery, For further information, visit the event website at including our delicious homemade www.alnwickfoodfestival.co.uk burgers, sausages and succulent steaks. Savour our FREE Dessert WITH SUNDay LUnch Sizzling Sausages at the PARK Hotel, TynemoUTH The Sunday Carvery at the landmark Art Deco Park Hotel provides generous Our talented team of butchers select the the portions of meat and all the trimmings, and to be even more generous they’re best cuts of pork to make our high quality offering a free dessert to every appetite reader. 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