Flavour

City centre food pleasures. Enjoying quality Caribbean cuisine alongside live music. Market Square burnt Basque cheesecake with Algerian coffee. How independents and their customers are affected by new import charges. Surviving lockdown, how the Cambridge Fruit Company did it. Getting on top of weeds in Good to Grow week.

Kitsch Hen reinventing the Scotch Egg with flavours like kedgeree and pork with black cherry. Indian street food on Cambridge Market. April foraging ideas. Allotment tips including extreme parsnip growing and Dave Fox's century allotment history project.

Alex Rushmer on Vanderlyle's first five years and what the future holds. Barry Vera of the Green Man in Grantchester on the importance of serving the local community and his ideas for it, also the full opening of the garden. Cambridges 'Cambucha'. Dave Fox on growing advice for Spring. Flavour is presented by Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Sue Bailey.

Caroline Biggs on her new book telling the shocking story of the university's imprisoning of women who were out alone at night. But what did they get to eat?? The imminent opening of the Northstowe Tap and Social which will have a permanent Steak and Honour base serving a brand new product. A visit to a new and very stylish Cambridge cafe. The ex-restaurant owner in Cambridge who's switched from owning to franchising explains why.

Jennifer Marshall owner of Sourdough Hub The stories of two successful local bakers, one previously an international concert pianist, the other a recent winner of multiple baking awards. Exciting new lattes on sale at a Cambridge cafe. Life on Cambridge Market. Ideas for onions from Rosie Sykes. Lots of food and drink news, jobs and where to get free food from.

Developing new skills. Rosie Sykes on her new book that helps you build your own recipes. Spencer Drake on keeping bees. Food workshops in and around Cambridge. Foraging tips from Steve Thompson. Also, developments at Fin Boys and the end of the Radegund rebuild.

Rafael who runs the Pinchito's Spanish food stall at Cambridge Market one of three small features looking at food stalls on Cambridge Market. (Photo: Matt Bentman) Hot food on Cambridge Market; Frank’s Farm in Elsworth; Rosie Sykes’ potato recipes and Grantchester’s Orchard Tea Garden. Matt Bentman and Dr Sue Bailey present.

College chefs open their own restaurants, families open cafes, new cookbooks from Cambridge food authors, the latest happenings on beer and wine, and food foraging. The Flavour team take a look back over some of the stories they reported in 2023.

What to eat at Christmas, Tim Hayward and others give their thoughts. Rosie Sykes cooks up some Boxing Day meals from the leftovers. And what to drink? Cong Cong Bo of Amphora advises on wines, and Crossover Blending introduces its aged oak beers. Lots of food and drink news too, free food and the jobs section.

Food and drink to look out for at the Winter Fair. Foraging news, including a rose hip syrup pour over for mince pies and Steve Thompson's foraging meal pop ups at Amphora. What's on offer at the new Grape Britannia shop. And great recipes for squash from Rosie Sykes.

Discovering what local independents have in store for Christmas eating and drinking. Afternoon tea and Christmas specials at Kibou. Buying a coffee machine as a present? Jake Bosworth from Coffee World has a summary of what's on offer, and his recommendations. Lots of local food and drink news too. Presented by Matt Bentman and Alan Alder

The day that Jay Rayner came, the behind-the-scenes story at Fin Boys. Bee Wilson's favourite Cambridge food places. Food for the Planet with Cambridge Sustainable Food and Tristan Welch. Barista training. Fish stew ideas. With Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Dr Sue Bailey.

Bee Wilson, in an extended interview, talks about writing her first cook book, and how her career as a food writer began. As part of National Coffee Week, advice on making the best of your coffee at home. A new Sri Lankan restaurant and take away opens. Weekly seafood popups in two local pubs and ideas for fish pie. Plus local food and drink news and jobs.

How two local pubs bucked the trend of permanent closure and reopened successfully and how a local cafe adapted and prospered. Increasing your enjoyment of cheese, tips from a local cheesemonger. Getting the best from prime fish, tips from fishmonger Ben Roberts. The forthcoming Tuna Nights at Fin Boys. Also, lots of local food and drink news, chef jobs and where to get free food in Cambridge.

An extraordinary dining event coming up at two Cambscuisine restaurants; our pick of the exhibitors at the Cambridge Food and Craft Fair; Cambridge's orchards and ideas for onion dishes from Rosie Sykes and Tristan Welch

Jams, crumbles, Pontack sauce, wine and vinegar! The humble blackberry & elderberry take the spotlight as we head into the fields with Steve Thompson the Foraging Chef. And we chat to a local team captain at Olio; the phone app that details free food available in your area. There's also a pick of the latest food news and jobs! Presented by Matt Bentman.

In this edition the team report on the opening of Kibou, the Japanese bar and restaurant on Jesus Lane, find out how restaurants choose their chefs, we hear about the new duty arrangements on alcohol and what they mean to you, meet the Vanderlyle chef who has won a place at the San Pellegrino Young Chef Awards in Milan, check out the new Chinese restaurant on King Street, and talk salmon and seabass recipes with fishmonger Ben Roberts.

Discovering Cambridge's contemporary style coffees, and a new cafe. Market House one year on. Developments at Orlene's Kitchen. Malloys wet fish shop opens. Quick-to-cook fish ideas. Lots of food and drinks news, and our jobs roundup.

Matt Bentman and Alan Alder explore the continuing increase in food and drink prices, from pizza to patisserie with the father and son team behind the Amélie restaurant, the difference between a medieval and a Georgian salad, and what it’s like to be a volunteer at a community farm.

Bringing you the winners of Velvet Magazine's food and drink awards; the superb masterclasses being run by Culinaris and Amphora; Cambridge Beer Quarter's beer festival and Steve Thompson's foraging tips, which include making a walnut liqueur. Plus all the local food and drink news and the jobs roundup.