Island Life Magazine Ltd February/March 2015 | Page 81

FOOD Food round-up Annual exhibition M edina Foodservice have been running their annual catering exhibition since 2006 and it is growing every year. Last year saw over 70 suppliers demonstrate a selection of their current and new products, and over 900 people visited to try them, and gain inspiration for their menus for the season ahead. Not only that, but hundreds of people obtained some massive savings by making their purchases at the show and taking advantage of the many promotions on offer. You can even place your show orders and have them delivered months later if you wish, ensuring that you get products at greatly discounted prices for the season ahead. This year will see the doors of Newport Football Club open again, inviting chefs, restaurant owners, managers and hospitality representatives alike to see what is on offer for 2015 for their new menus. You can have lunch on them at the Medina Café as well as save a small fortune. The Medina Foodservice Catering Exhibition will be open on Wednesday February 25 for one day only, from 10am to 6pm. Entry is free. Further details are available at www. medinafoodservice.co.uk 'Come Dine With Me' on the Island T he popular Channel Four programme ‘Come Dine With Me’ will be coming to the Island in the near future. Filming will be taking place around the Island and in the Portsmouth area in the week beginning February 23. Over the course of three nights, three couples that are enthusiastic amateur chefs, who don’t know each other, take it in turns to host a dinner party for the other two couples. At the end of the week the best host couple wins a £1,000 cash prize. No date has yet been arranged for the screening of the show, but it is expected to be later this year. Wine tasting at Seaview A wine and fish pairing evening is being held at the Seaview Hotel on Saturday, March 14, from 7.30pm. It promises to be a sensational evening of wine and food pairing. Head chef, Bruce has created a fresh, coastal four-course fish menu and Fergus from Majestic Wine has matched with exquisite wines. Fergus will explain what wines work well with different types of fish from the delicate and flaky to the more robust and salty. Co-hosted with Majestic Wine, there will be some interesting combinations including red wine with fish. Book now for the fish menu, only £35, or with wine pairing £55. Cooking up a winner Y oung cooks aged between 12 and 14 years are being urged to enter the 2015 Create and Cook competition. So, young cooks, get working on your entries and enter through your school food technology department to start a new culinary adventure! Entries, which can be made via pupils’ own school food technology department, must be received by March 20. For more information about the 2015 competition, go to fit2cook.co.uk/createandcook. Right: Regional final judge and Chef/Director of Etch Food, Steven Edwards with last year’s Create and Cook winners, Joe Doncaster and Alice Hyde from Sandown Bay Academy www.visitilife.com 81