British Food Fortnight - 66 schools provided with Kenwood cooking equipment

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Welcome to British Food Fortnight

Alexia Robinson

Jennifer Meakin

This year’s British Food Fortnight saw the biggest ever promotion of British food on our shores with more tastings, special menus and activities taking place in shops, pubs and restaurants across the country.

British Food Fortnight continues to be the largest volunteer movement educating children about food. Schools using the Fortnight as an opportunity to teach children how to cook were joined by the event’s network of 9,000 chefs and retailers, who helped teach children to shop beyond the sweetie shelves.

All the information on how to enjoy British food throughout the year and details of what happened during this year’s event are on this website.

66 schools provided with Kenwood cooking equipment

Hundreds of schools – Primary, Secondary and Special Needs schools - invited chefs into the classroom to give cooking lessons, visited farms and allotments and toured local butchers, fishmongers and greengrocers as they took up the challenge to include food and cookery within their curriculum teaching during the Fortnight. Irish, Scottish and even some overseas schools participated for the first time.

A total of 66 schools in the UK are being rewarded for their efforts with class sets of Kenwood bakeware, smoothie makers, aprons and scales so that they are fully equipped to teach pupils how to cook long term. The national winner, who will also receive a top-of-the-range Kenwood chef, is… Greencroft Community School, Stanley, Co. Durham. Follow this link to read what Greencroft Community School did during British Food Fortnight.

The British Food Fortnight ‘Cook for Life’ Challenge in 2008 will again be sponsored by Kenwood. You will be able to download details of the competition and an entry form in due course.

To read about what schools did in 2007 please follow this link .

Please follow this link for free Kenwood 'Cook for Life' resource materials.

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We want to hear from you

The organisers of British Food Fortnight want to hear from you.

Let us know what you are organising. To have your event, shop, pub or restaurant listed on the website and included in press information please use this link to our contact details and our e-mail contact form.

Or - for general use - follow this link to download a fax-back form.

Or - schools - follow this link to download a fax-back form.

Please complete the appropriate form and send it back to us.