Foodtripper.com - For people who travel to eat
Friday 30 July 2010
Contact Us
|
About Us
|
Sitemap
Search Foodtripper
Newsletter Updates
RSS
Join us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
Home
Features
Eating Out
News
Real Food Festival Shop
What's On
Win
Foodtripper TV
Events
Gourmet Courses
Features
Hotels
Events
Columnists
Anne Benson
Anne Benson has been writing about food for more than fifteen years contributing to the Daily Post, the Daily Express, Liverpool.com magazine, the North West Evening Mail and the North West Food Lovers' Guide and the recently published Home Grown, a book about north west food champions. Anne is one of the founders of the Wirral Food Festival which attracts more than 26,000 visitors every year. She is Chairman of Wirral Farmers' Market which won best farmers' market in the UK at the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards. In 2008 she was appointed Food Tourism Consultant for the Mersey Partnership. In the same year she won an award fro Raising the Image of the North West Food Industry by Food Northwest.
Features by Anne Benson
Diary of a food festival organiser, part 5
Anne finds out that Wirral Food Festival has been shortlisted for the tourism event of the year.
[Read more...]
Diary of a food festival organiser, part 4
A dawn raid on a field of asparagus kicks off the season in style.
[Read more...]
Diary of a food festival organiser, part 3
As the festival date draws closer Anne quietly eyes the competition in Chester only to find she's the subject of the Chairman's opening speech.
[Read more...]
Diary of a food festival organiser, part 2
This week Anne invites four celebrity chefs to a photoshoot then narrowly misses setting them on fire with the props: a pan, a match and a bottle of vodka.
[Read more...]
Diary of food festival organiser, part 1
Ever dreamed of setting up your own food festival? That's what Anne Benson did. In the run up to Wirral Food Festival's fourth year, Anne shares her diary exclusively with Foodtripper.
[Read more...]
Editor's Choice
Helen Hokin's July Picks
07/07/2010
Foodtripper: The Collection has just launched. This boutique selection of the world's best cookery holidays brings global gourmet retreats direct to your fingertips... your very own delicious escape is just a click away. On Foodtripper TV, we’ve invited top chef Rowley Leigh to make the most of Spain's short-lived Picota cherry season, cooking up a classic clafoutis. And we have a fab holiday to Spain's Jerte Valley for one lucky individual.
Helen Hokin's June Picks
10/06/2010
In anticipation of a long, hot, British summer I stay close to home dropping by Le Cafe Anglais where Rowley Leigh - just turned 60 - shares future plans for the restaurant and role as poster boy for the forthcoming Picota cherry season. Across town, at The Lanesborough, Heinz Beck's elegant summer menu is served. Go there for the chaud-froid Herbal infusion with tuna tartare and green tea sorbet - more Mediterranean gluttony than molecular gastronomy.
Helen Hokin's May Picks
02/05/2010
Foodtripper met the most lauded chefs on earth at The World's Fifty Best Restaurant Awards. Taking 1st prize is Noma in Copehagen knocking El Bulli off the top spot and sending a ripple effect through the chart. Heston moves down to 3rd place. Hibiscus is in, by a whisker, at number 49 leaving the total number of Brits in the top 50 at a mere three. If you missed our live tweets on the night then start following us on twitter for future live updates.