Mary Berry news and analysis – Page 7
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NewsBaking a Mary Berry sponge will cost an extra 27p this season
The return of The Great British Bake Off this week brings with it at least two certainties…
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Category ReportFocus on butter & spreads: Moove over margarine
Butter is booming. But with costs rising, is growth sustainable and how can margarine recover lost sales?…
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Comment & OpinionMary Berry backs off over shark salsa scandal
Twinkly-eyed cake duchess Mary Berry won many a heart in her role as Paul Hollywood’s reproachful auntie…
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Hooray for Paul Hollywood in the Great British Bake-Off
So the finalists of the Great British Bake-Off are nearing their final hurdle: the final…
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CAKES: 'Boring' formats & bake-at-home create cake hole
The British love affair with cake appears to be on the wane, with volume sales down by 4.1% year-on-year.
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Baking's answer to Ant and Dec
If baking is the new rock’n’roll (it isn’t), Mary Berry must be Mick Jagger, strutting and jutting her turkey-neck in judgement over our muffins…
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From the cabbage patches to the killing fields
The Great British Food Revival (Thursday, 7pm, BBC2) has a neat premise: top cooks trying to convert the great unwashed to ape their deviant gastronomic peccadilloes.
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Critical Eye... on a balls-up at the Bake Off
Food porn? Pah. Why have that when you can have the real thing? The finale of The Great British Bake Off (9.30pm, BBC2, Tuesday 4 October) didn’t just boast lingering shots of winner Jo Wheatley’s white chocolate and raspberry pistachio meringues….
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on baking and the clockwork rioters
Most kids these days probably think Nadsat is something you stick to a car dashboard rather than the fictional slang of A Clockwork Orange. But there were strong echoes of the Anthony Burgess classic in the shocking and shameful images arising from…
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Mary Berry has entered the cake mix
Gourmet brand Mary Berry & Daughter is making its first foray into baking with a range of cake mixes. The Mary Berry branded range, available from Waitrose, comes in Lemon Drizzle, Luxury Carrot Cake and Double Chocolate Fudge (rsp:...
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NewsFocus On Sauces & Condiments: Sauces raise their game
Consumers just can’t seem to get enough of their favourite table sauces as brands branch out into different flavours and some unlikely areas. Simon Creasey reports
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WHEN THE OIL RUNS DRY
In January this year fine food distributor RH Amar announced it would part company with the UK's leading olive oil brand Filippo Berio at the end of September, signalling the end of a successful 25-year partnership. That the brand...
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Amar buys Mary Berry brand stake
Fine food distributor RH Amar has bought a minority stake in dressings and sauces brand Mary Berry & Daughter. RH Amar has been responsible for distributing the premium range in the UK since 2006, resulting in a 12% rise in annual sales...
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Get speed-dating with the buyers!
Those British companies exhibiting at IFE05 will have an extra reason to push their wares as trade export body Food from Britain has organised visits by more than 30 international buyers.The visits, in conjunction with UK Trade and Investment,...
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Trends and developments
>>from luxury and exotic to reduced sugar and low-carbn Hartley’s is introducing a new premium sub-brand to its portfolio of preserves. The new Hartley’s Luxury Conserve range from Premier Foods will...
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Baxters gets CCL
Baxters Food Group has acquired condiments and pickles manufacturer CCL Foods for an undisclosed sum. As part of the deal, the Scottish company buys CCL's brand portfolio, which includes Peppadew, Simply Delicious, Olivaise, Mary Berry and Pizza...