UK Sausage Week - 29th October - 4th November

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Catering for all tastes

Catering for all tastes

Catering butcher, Aubrey Allen is celebrating UK Sausage Week and will be highlighting a few of its favourites for this time of year in particular. Jumbo Warwickshire Whizzer – turning up the heat and going large! Jumbo Bumblebee – a sweet little sausage made using...

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Sausages sizzle over the airwaves

Sausages sizzle over the airwaves

Radio coverage for UK Sausage Week started sizzling even before it began as Elaine Page on her Sunday afternoon show gave it a mention. Early Monday morning before arriving at Butchers’ Hall, head judge of the UK Sausage Week competition, Keith Fisher, did a round of...

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UK Sausage Week winners unveiled

UK Sausage Week winners unveiled

This year’s UK Sausage Week launched in style with a celebration lunch at the newly refurbished Butchers’ Hall, London. The winners of the 2019 were revealed yesterday during a ‘sizzling’ occasion attended by winners, finalists and Award partners. Chef Lesley Waters,...

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UK Sausage Week trends on Twitter

UK Sausage Week trends on Twitter

UK Sausage Week got off to a flying start and was trending on Twitter as the winners of the 2019 UK Sausage Week Awards celebrated at Butchers' Hall. Here is a round-up of some of the highlights on social media: We shall share some attention now... It was Halloween...

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Tim Potter Butchers support local school for UK Sausage Week

Tim Potter Butchers support local school for UK Sausage Week

Tim Potter Butchers, Somerset, has created a 'Wellington Sausage' to mark twenty years of Wellington Prep School. A total of 30% of all profits from sales of the Wellington Sausage will go to the charitable incorporated organisation that is run alongside the school....

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Have you got your pigs in blankets covered?

Have you got your pigs in blankets covered?

During the first day of UK Sausage Week the BBC was warning that pigs in blankets, amongst other Christmas treat might be in short supply this Christmas due to Brexit. Cardiff butcher, Martin Player, winner of the Traditional Pork Sausage Category in the UK Sausage...

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‘Design your own sausage’ competition in Cumbria

‘Design your own sausage’ competition in Cumbria

To mark UK Sausage Week Higginsons of Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, has launched a 'Design your own sausage' competition. The participants get the chance to feature their name in Higginsons' sausage 'hall of fame'. The retail butcher's customers can make up their...

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Claire and Debbie tell us what makes an award-winning sausage

Claire and Debbie tell us what makes an award-winning sausage

We caught up with UK Sausage Week competition judges, Claire Holland of the Q Guild and Debbie Wilson of Ladies in Pigs, to get their views on what makes an award-winning sausage. Because after tasting so many, they really are the experts. So, what did they say? Q....

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Ready, steady, sausages!

Ready, steady, sausages!

Celebrity chef and star of cookery programme, Ready, Steady Cook!, Lesley Waters will be hosting this year’s UK Sausage Week celebration Lunch. She spoke with Meat Management magazine editor, Pam Brook about what she feels makes them so iconic in the food world and...

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Ask me anything says the ‘Prince of Pork’

Ask me anything says the ‘Prince of Pork’

Professional sausage taster, head judge of UK Sausage Week and CEO of The Institute of Meat Keith Fisher was recently dubbed ‘The Prince of Pork’ on BBC’s Radio 1. The Scott Mills Daily is on BBC Radio 1 and presenter Scott Mills, together with contributor Chris...

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