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The Real Food Festival and Borough Market hosted a fantastic Easter Market Day today; with make your own Easter egg sessions, chocolate making demonstrations and some very special guests.

This included hot new London Chocolatier Paul Wayne Gregory, one of the new stars in the chocolate world, known for his intense and original flavours. Other impressive chocolatiers who spent the sunny morning with Real Food Festival and Borough Market include Antonia Fraser from Ooh la la and Auberge du Chocolat, and Peckham Rye based chocolatier Melange. Although the most popular guest with the Market’s younger audience was from Real Food Festival regular The Sheep Show, and she came with two little lambs!

It was a busy morning for all the Real Food Festival stalls with visitors to the market loving the artisan bread, home made marmalade, delicious cheeses and of course the mouth-watering chocolate!

For more information on the Real Food Festival, please contact Nilam or Anna.

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Calling all independent producers! The search is now on to find the best tasting products from every corner of the world. The Great Taste Awards has been described as the ‘Oscars’ of the food world. Acknowledged by producers, retailers and consumers as the definitive independent benchmark for speciality food and drink, the Great Taste Awards helps smaller producers, who lack big promotional budgets, to gain wider distribution and increase sales. Winning foods carry the Awards distinctive logo and producers benefit from a month-long consumer promotion in hundreds of food halls, delis and farm shops.

Entry forms can be downloaded by clicking here.

For more information on the Great Taste Awards, contact Charlotte or Alice.

Cruise line Voyages of Discovery were given a tour of the House With No Steps; an organisation which provides young, disabled people with accommodation, education, support and opportunities.

They then took part in some of the classes and workshops which took place. In return for their hospitality, residents of House With No Steps were invited onboard Discovery where they enjoyed the run of the ship and performed a highly skillful music and dance show for the enthralled passengers.

To round off a magical evening in style, Voyages of Discovery presented the charity with a cheque for US$50,000 to support the incredible work which House With No Steps does to help people with intellectual, physical, sensory and/or psychiatric disabilities make the most of their abilities.

Voyages of Discovery has been a supporter of the charity for many years, having now raised over US$150,000 for this worthwhile cause and its beneficiaries.

For more information, contact Jon.

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Foodie review website Qype played host to one of Angela Malik’s critically acclaimed Cookery Courses. Many Qype bloggers came along to Angela’s cookery school in Acton to learn how to cook with her pesto sauces and how to make Dim Sum.

The event was a great success. Many bloggers wrote about the cookery course including images and their thoughts on the dishes. “This cookery school was a revelation”, “When it came to preparing and cooking our own dim sum and gyoza, instructions were clear, guidance plentiful and the results…sublime”.

Angela has many classes available with something for everyone - no matter their level of cookery skills. Classes include: Indian express cooking, Butchery and knife skills with Asian style cooking, Create the perfect Indian dinner, Thai food made easy, Brilliant cocktails and canapés, A taste of Morocco and Indian food for confident cooks. Also available will be smaller classes to give more individual attention as well as some great children’s cookery classes.

For full reviews from the evening, please click here

For further details of Angela Malik, please click here

For more information, please contact Nilam

COMPLETE’s very own Charlotte Read has featured in Overseas Property Professional Magazine’s Marketing Panel. She joined other PR specialists and property industry professionals to discuss the effect of the recession on property media.

“The recession has changed the rules of media negotiation for buyers, owners and clients alike. A panel of specialists offer insights into today’s property media landscape – and how best to approach it”

The piece said of Charlotte: Charlotte Read, PR &Marketing Account Director, Complete Media Group. An integrated media agency, COMPLETE look after the communication needs of a number of property clients including Frogmore, The Hippodrome, Knight Frank (City & West End), Cube, JLL (Residential), The Four Seasons (Barbados) and Winkworth.

Charlotte was quoted in the article: Integrated approach: Complete Media’s Charlotte Read explains that agency meetings are now more likely to include input from PR and marketing as well as buying and planning to offer clients an integrated package of PR and advertising to deliver results.

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On Thursday 18th February, the Real Food Festival launched at Borough Market and now you can sample the delights of the festival at the London Market all year round…

The event was a huge half-term success with children and adults alike enjoying the tasty food and drink from local producers and petting Petal the water buffalo! Press enjoyed brunch and cookery demonstrations by outstanding chefs Cyrus Todiwala, Jun Tanaka and Oliver Rowe. Click here for a video from the launch.

The Real Food Festival will be a new regular weekly fixture at Borough Market, providing a tantalising taste of the main event. For the first time in the Market’s 250 year history it has joined forces with an annual food festival, bringing fantastic new producers to London’s most popular and iconic food market. Every Thursday, 14 Real Food Festival producers will come to London bringing Borough Market’s shoppers and the local community even more choice and the opportunity to buy great quality, fresh produce and ingredients at affordable prices, direct from the producer.

For more information on the Real Food Festival, please contact Charlotte or Nilam.

See below for a picture of the COMPLETE team at the Real Food Festival launch at Borough Market.

Last night saw the press launch of family-friendly food and music festival Harvest at Jimmy’s.

Press flocked to Wahaca in Covent Garden - the Mexican street food restaurant owned by MasterChef winner Thomasina Miers - to hear the chef line up revealed. New indie kids Vadoinmessico played a set at the event and will be appearing live at the festival (the full band line up will be announced on the COMPLETE blog within the upcoming weeks).

Jimmy Doherty, chef and pig farmer, is hosting the festival on 11th & 12th September which will see Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Canteen and The Hairy Bikers feed fellow festival-goers.

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Alternatively, contact Charlotte or Anna.

Borough Market, one of London’s oldest and most prestigious food markets, sees the introduction of Asian Chef Angela Malik from 21st January 2010. Angela has succeeded in entering the Borough Market with her delicious selection of sauces, mixes and chutneys, a testament to her abundant skill and the high quality of her produce.

Angela’s innovative approach to cooking has taken London by storm with the introduction of her Acton based cookery school. She shows her students how to expand their culinary skills and try the unexplored: demystifying Thai food, and mastering Dim Sum. Angela, having studied at the Leith’s School of Cookery, has a high level of experience enabling her to share and teach her knowledge to a high standard. She has a passion for cooking and believes it shouldn’t be complicated. Her concept is based on an amalgamation of Eastern flavours and British food, making it exciting and innovative. Her decision to bottle her idea and sell it has proved a great success, showing that you don’t have to be an experienced chef to enjoy fantastic flavours.

If you would like to find out more about Angela and her food philosophy, check out Angela’s classes. They are all about having fun and learning new things. They are fully interactive, ensuring participants can go home and experiment again and again, and at the end of the day you can relax with a glass of wine and eat the delicious food you have just made.

For further details on the classes or for her products please visit www.angelamalik.co.uk.

Discovery cruise specialist Swan Hellenic joined forces once again with satirical British magazine The Oldie to sponsor the publications 2010 of the Year Awards, held at lunch at Simpson’s–in–the-Strand.

Joanna Lumley was awarded the prestigious ‘2010 Oldie of the Year Award’ in association with Swan Hellenic. The awards were presented by Sir Terry Wogan and Richard Ingrams. Having presented the Oldie Awards for 10 years, Sir Terry Wogan won his own Oldie Award this year, Swan Hellenic Retirer of the Year

Winners in the other categories of this year’s 2010 Oldie of the Year Awards were:

Chris Mullin – The Oldie Backbencher of the Year

Quentin Blake – The Oldie Illustrator of the Year

P.D. James – The Oldie Handbagger of the Year

Lady Caroline Cranbrook – The Oldie Campaigner of the Year

Colin Stone, MD of Swan Hellenic, comments “Our association with the Oldie of the Year Awards enables us to meet with some interesting guest speakers providing our passengers with some of the most prestigious names in broadcasting, writing and entertainment…We look forward to welcoming both Joanna & Terry onboard Minerva in the near future”

For more information on Swan Hellenic, please contact Missy.

Hot on the heels of his award for AA London Restaurant of the year, the legendary Irish chef patron Richard Corrigan last night celebrated a double win at the National Restaurant of the Year Awards, held at the Hurlingham Club, west London. Bentley’s Oyster Bar & Grill, his iconic seafood restaurant in Piccadilly, reached number 55 on the list, which is voted for by chefs, restaurateurs and critics. Richard’s newest venture, Corrigan’s Mayfair, which launched last November to critical and public acclaim, reached number five, and was also the highest new entry.