These are links I think you might find interesting. Please let me know if you come across others which would be useful to add.
Kids and Cooking is a new public interest website designed to encourage children to learn and have fun in the kitchen. Lots of useful info and links.
British Food Fortnight is a national celebration of British produce, this year running from 22nd September to 7 October. Join me in supporting it by emailing me your suggested local recipe to include on September's menu.
The Food Hygiene Awards run by Sheffield City Council inform consumers about food establishments in the City which follow good practice in hygiene. The Children's Food Company is rated 'Excellent' out of the possible grades Excellent, Very Good and Good. You can find me listed as an award holder on their website.
The Food Commission is a national, independent body which campaigns for safer, healthier food. Their website is full of reports and news updates, much of it relating to children's food. They also have a Parents' Jury which aims to improve the quality of children's food and drinks in the UK.
The Slow Food Campaign was set up 20 years ago as an international organsation to 'protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenisation of modern fast food and life.' I'm a fan because it's all about the pleasure of cooking from scratch with local ingredients to make good food. They run various initiatives to promote 'taste education', gastronomic culture and agricultural biodiversity.
The Feed Me Better Campaign - if we're talking good, honest children's food, we have to link to Jamie Oliver and his work to educate us about the importance of pure, real food for the next generation. His website has revealing facts and figures and suggestions about how to get involved.
The Guardian Food Directory - the most recent published last October, celebrates the best of British produce. There are a several references to our area, including the Chatsworth Farm Shop, JH Mann Ltd fishmongers in Hillsborough (0114 234 3538) and The Dram Shop on Commonside (0114 268 3117). Best of all, it featured two of my main suppliers, The Organic Pantry and Roneys free range butchers.
The Food Standards Agency is the official government website for advice and information about the food we consume in the UK.
The Organic Pantry is the organic wholesaler based at St Helen's farm near York which supplies my vegetables. They have a farm shop and also do box deliveries of organic fruit and veg to the Sheffield area. They've been very supportive of my new business and at certain times of the year would welcome family visits to look round the farm. Please contact them to find out more.
Roneys is the family butchers on Sharrowvale Road which supplies the Orkney Island Gold beef mince and other meat for my recipes. They really take pride in the quality and the provenance of their meat and have been very encouraging of the Children's Food Company and what I stand for: feeding children with honest, homemade food using best quality (preferably local) ingredients.
Fooshy - a feature rich Content Management System (this site uses Fooshy).
useful links