Education

Running alongside the main conference event at the Hilton Blackpool this week have been the cooking competitions at the Blackpool and Fylde College.

McCain Foods has helped to support the activity by providing curriculum based booklets, called 'Learn more with food galore', for teachers to use with pupils in class and also by supplying the partici

That will take place at the Defence Foodservices School at Worthy Down in Hampshire.

The report noted that 'teaching is excellent' and that 'outcomes for students are outstanding'. Teaching sessions were highlighted as dynamic and in the 'superb learning resources' the quality and ran

Leek and potato soup and leek, potato and cheese pie – made using leeks grown at Grace Academy Solihull - are some of the first dishes to appear on the Academy's lunchtime menu through the new initi

Jo Simmons, McCain Foods' senior brand manager, explained: "Promoting the school meal service to teachers, parents and pupils is vital to driving uptake but with funds increasingly directed elsewhere,

The central London venue will provide a space for food enthusiasts to get hands-on and learn the techniques to make tastier and healthier versions of their favourite Asian meals.

Providing over 600,000 meals every year to children across the globe, Mary's Meals sets up school feeding projects in some of the world's poorest communities, where hunger and poverty prevent children

Finalists were required to prepare two courses for £15 or under.

Officially called Lean Finely Textured Beef, it is formed by reclaiming the small parts of meat from leftover cuts with a high fat content using a centrifuge to separate the meat from the fat.