Channel 4 in the UK start 2009 off with a bang with their “Great British Food Fight”, featuring “Big Chef Little Chef” (Heston Blumenthal), “Ramsay’s Great British Nightmare” (Gordon Ramsay), “Chickens, Hugh and Tesco Too” (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingsall), and “Jamie Saves Our Bacon” (Jamie Oliver).  All coming very soon!

The 2008 Food Blog Awards are starting on Monday, January 15th.  Read more about it over at Well Fed Network.

Food photography is one of those things I’m still learning (note to self: remember this for New Year’s Resolutions) so this great “tips on food photography” article is very welcome…

I’m in danger of sounding like a real TV addict here, but make sure you don’t miss “Christmas at River Cottage”, showing tommorow 17th December at 8pm on Channel 4…

There are a whopping 3 River Cottage Handbooks set for release in 2009 – and you can learn more (and pre-order) at the following links:

Bread: River Cottage Handbook No. 3
Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No.4
Edible Seashore: River Cottage Handbook No.5

Nigella’s 5 part Christmas series starts today (15 Dec ‘08) and is on each night this week.  I’m sure it’s gonna be great!

Channel 4 have posted their guide to this year’s top 10 Christmas foods.  What do you think?

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s new program “River Cottage: Autumn” starts this Thursday, 16th October.

Don’t miss it!

I’m full up with cold at the moment and my wife prepared me a drink of hot milk, honey and garlic to help me feel better.  Suprisingly, it tasted OK!

Garlic is a natural antibiotic so it should work.  Why not give it a try?

Elise from Simply Recipes says that Twitter is “where the party is”, and who am I to argue?  A new social networking site chockablock with food bloggers, it’s certainly worth checking out.

I’ve just signed up and have no idea what I’m doing (as usual) – you can find me lurking around at http://twitter.com/realepicurean – click [...]