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Around the world with school meals

SCHOOL cooks in Birmingham and Solihull are being offered the chance to return to the classroom – and learn how to give their menus an international flavour.Read

Cheers! Duo brew pint of pure gold

PUBLICAN Gary Meads was born into the business – making his entry into the world in a room above the bar managed by parents Philip and Sheila.Read

Fledgling Alvechurch brewery enjoys sweet taste of success

PUBLICAN Gary Meads was born into the business – making his entry into the world in a room above the bar managed by parents Philip and Sheila.Read

Picnics pass taste Test at Edgbaston

THE weather forecast may not be great for the start of the Third Test at Edgbaston today but cricket fans can be assured of an enjoyable LBW – Lunch Before Wash-out.Read

Locally-produced picnics pass the taste Test at Edgbaston

THE weather forecast may not be great for the start of the Third Test at Edgbaston today but cricket fans can be assured of an enjoyable LBW – Lunch Before Wash-out.Read

Naomi's parlour is an ice little earner

WHEN little Rosa O’Connor couldn’t get a traditional ice cream near her home in Birmingham, her mum Naomi had the perfection solution: she opened her own parlour.Read

WHEN little Rosa O’Connor couldn’t get a traditional ice cream near her home in Birmingham, her mum Naomi had the perfection solution: she opened her own parlour.

The family had just returned from a seaside holiday in Broadstairs, on the Kent coast, and it was the first time Rosa, who is four, had seen ice cream in a cone.Read

Searching for the real taste of India

AMID the talk of Birmingham’s food revival there is one style of cooking that is leading a red-hot charge.Read

Dave's got culinary world in his Hands

HE’S cooked for David and Victoria Beckham – not to mention screen legend Robert de Niro – and now he’s in Birmingham to cook for you.Read

From playground to plate

PUPILS preparing to cook alongside a top chef at a Birmingham food festival won’t have to bother with the shopping – because they grow all their own produce at school.Read

Bucklemaker restaurant in Birmingham crashes amid mounting losses

ONE of Birmingham’s best-known restaurants has gone bust, it was revealed today.Read

Curries and cocktails a perfect mix

ARE you a Delhi Devil or a Goa Goer?Read

Fabled secrets of the upper crust

IT had been consigned to the bottom of the bread bin but it’s back from the dead – and baked to perfection.Read

IT had been consigned to the bottom of the bread bin but it’s back from the dead – and baked to perfection.

The Birmingham Close Notched Cottage Loaf, one of the city’s forgotten culinary treasures, has returned, thanks to lecturers at University College Birmingham, the old College of Food.Read

Hair we go again on food odyssey

THE Hairy Bikers may have gone full throttle round the globe looking for cooking ideas, but they’ve decided there’s no place like home for world-beating food.Read

Dynamic duo taste success

SCEPTICS may have thought Brummie twins John and Phil Daniels were clutching at straws – cheese straws to be exact – when they launched their frozen food business.Read

A taste of real food inspires Midlands' young cooks

FORGET liver and onions and boiled beef and carrots. Schoolchildren are being encouraged to cook up new dishes full of Eastern Promise.Read

Vine time to run a family winery

THE left bank of the M42 may not seem like the most auspicious setting for a vineyard but it is here that Sutton Coldfield has its very own thriving winery.Read

Donald’s cooking is top of the bill

MULTI-TALENTED Donald Deans has been under the spotlight at the Birmingham Hippodrome since 2001, putting in all manner of virtuoso performances.Read

Cooking that's top of the bill at the Hippodrome

MULTI-TALENTED Donald Deans has been under the spotlight at the Birmingham Hippodrome since 2001, putting in all manner of virtuoso performances.Read

Author Profile

Richard McComb is a columnist, writer and restaurant critic for The Birmingham Post. Likes: Stevie Wonder (1963-1982 output); taking the long view; beaches; jumpers for goalposts. Dislikes: (Amongst others) enablement; spitting; the short straw; double maths.

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