Related category: Food & Drink(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Monday, June 28, 2010
The biggest ever local crafts and produce market featuring members of the Genuine Jersey Products Association is being staged as part of the West Show. Genuine Jersey members are familiar faces at the St Aubin and Weighbridge farmers and crafts market and other events held throughout the year but an unprecedented 28 are coming together [...]
Related category: Food & Drink(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Friday, June 25, 2010
Genuine Jersey produce is being championed as the best of British by an award-winning Indian chef at his London restaurant. Cyrus Todiwala OBE is a big fan of Island produce since he met local producers at last year’s Real Food Festival in London. From this week until the end of July diners at his restaurant, [...]
Related category: Community, Food & Drink(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Monday, May 24, 2010
Judging begins on Monday 24 May in the Island’s primary schools to discover the winners of this year’s Genuine Jersey Royal potato growing competition. Now in its fourth year, the award-winning competition is organised by the Jersey Royal Company, supported by the Genuine Jersey Products Association and the States of Jersey Health Promotion Unit. Entries [...]
Related category: Food & Drink(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Jersey News, 5 May 2010 – Genuine Jersey produce is the star attraction for the second year running at Jamie Oliver-founded restaurant Fifteen in London. The high-profile restaurant is dishing up some of the Island’s finest fresh produce – sourced from members of the Genuine Jersey Products Association – as part of its lunch and [...]
Related category: Food & Drink(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Thursday, April 22, 2010
Jersey News, 22 April 2010 – Genuine Jersey beef, vegetables and Jersey Royal new potatoes will be served as the main attraction to the ‘who’s who’ of the UK’s hospitality industry in London on Monday. Genuine Jersey produce is taking premier billing at the National Restaurateurs’ Dinner at the Dorchester Hotel thanks to celebrity Indian [...]
Related category: Food & Drink(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Friday, March 26, 2010
Jersey News, 26 March 2010 – Jamie Oliver made his restaurant Fifteen famous for its work with budding chefs. Now Fifteen are coming to Jersey for a showdown with Highlands’ Academy of Culinary Arts. Eight students from Highlands and eight apprentices from Fifteen are cooking head to head in the Great Jersey Menu Competition. To [...]
Related category: Food & Drink(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Friday, March 26, 2010
Jersey News, 26 March 2010 – Following the success of Jersey’s collaboration with Jamie Oliver-founded restaurant Fifteen for a month-long partnership last year, the venture is set to continue again this May. The high-profile London restaurant will be dishing up the Island’s fantastic fresh produce – sourced from members of the Genuine Jersey Products Association [...]
Related category: Retail(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Jersey News, 19 January 2010 – The Island’s business community is being invited to support local producers by becoming a sponsor of the Genuine Jersey Products Association. The Association which has been championing growth, sustainability and innovation by ‘buying local’ products long before it became a popular movement has revised its charter to include businesses [...]
Related category: Food & Drink(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Thursday, November 19, 2009
Jersey News, 18 November 2009 – An award-winning chef is showcasing Island produce in a speciality Genuine Jersey menu at his Indian restaurant in London Cyrus Todiwala MBE – proprietor and executive chef of the Café Spice Namasté restaurant in London – visited Jersey in October to tutor catering students and to meet producers. He [...]
Related category: Food & Drink, Jersey(Jersey News) Author: Jamesq on Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Jersey News, 27 October 2009 – Genuine Jersey member Sue Le Gresley, the producer of Sue’s Fudge, has taken on the lease of a town shop to sell her wares alongside many leading chocolate brands. Ms Le Gresley said she was not daunted by starting a new business in the current economic climate when shops [...]