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AUGUST 2018

PHILOSOPHY: “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria.” - David Auerbach

Getting the roast right

A Nightingale flies in

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Chocolate Maker: best job in the world

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Veg Boxes: a day are they the answer

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Welcome to the first issue of Urban Market, the food and drink newspaper featuring all the delicious food, drink and good things associated with the wonderful county of Yorkshire.

NEWS

We will be featuring local farmers, farmers markets, food growers, including allotment owners and keen growers at home, right down to window sill gardeners. There will be recipes using local produce and we will be speaking to small food producers of cakes, bread, cheese and dairy. We cannot forget the drinks and with an abundance of small micro-breweries opening and distilleries featuring trendy Gin in particular with rum hot on its heels, Yorkshire has its fair share of quality craft beers and spirits. We checked out a few dotted around Leeds when we were invited on a Brewtown Tour recently. Read all about it on page six. We were shocked at the pictures that emerged this year of our oceans full of plastic waste as

FWe should all be thinking about the planet and the environment and all be encouraged to buy local, this also helps our local economy and small businesses. FThere is so much seasonal produce on our doorstep, why would we want to go elsewhere?

I’m sure many of our readers were. We will be doing all we can to help find alternatives to plastics and share our findings with you. We are encouraging people to get involved with Urban Market. We have been joined by Jonathan Straight who will be writing about vegetarian/vegan issues and sharing with us some of the best restaurants to visit in the area.

A recent poll found that veganism is at an all-time high, with more than half a million people in the UK giving up meat and dairy. The number of people opting to go vegan is exceptionally high in

the younger generation with almost a quarter aiming to cut out diary altogether. However, veganism is a very tough diet to follow with more than 60% trying it for the first time giving up, as it is difficult to maintain. However, with more vegan products appearing on our supermarket shelves, people following the diet has risen 360% in the last decade.

We do want to engage with more of our readers. We want to hear from local allotment owners or gardeners who can share their tips on how to grow our own fruit and vegetables, when to plant and when to harvest. We want to talk to producers of local food and drink who we can feature and show how some of the goods are made. We want your recipes using only local produce and we want your views on the environment. Urban Market will be published bi-monthly with the next edition due out in October. Please do get in touch and share your stories, tips and ideas with us. 07711 539047 or email: editor@urbanmarket.uk

Our special thanks go to our contributors this edition: Jonathan Straight Sophie Mei Lan Adam Batchelor David Greenwood-Haigh fih. If you would like to get involved, please do let us know at editor@urbanmarket.uk

Online & drink reviews

Super surge in Veganism During 2018, one in five adults will turn vegan or dairy free.

Fitness expert and personal trainer Adam Batchelor has joined us, to encourage us all to get moving, not just shedding a few stubborn pounds, but helping to change our lifestyle permanently, taking the stairs instead of the lift and parking the car a little further away from the office than you would normally. Little changes that make a big difference.

Vertumnus, a portrait depicting Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor painted as Vertumnus, the Roman God of the seasons, c. 1590-1. Skokloster Castle, Sweden. (Wikipaedia)

Useful or “Fake Food” ? p05

INSIDE undertaking 2-month craft beer tour of North Western America, he was delighted to find that in the time he had been out of the country, small micro-breweries had opened producing quality craft beers.

Food for good: ‘Growing your own’ and sourcing local produce is no longer an isolated act. People are coming together across the region to grow, plant and sow seeds in a healthy community spirit.

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Explore fine beer by bus p06

When avid ale enthusiast Mark Stredwick returned to Yorkshire after travelling the world, living in Australia for 16 years and

Life’s a ‘Bries’....................................02 Best Independant Brewery ..........06 Rubs and Crusts..............................12 Afternoon Tea...................................14 Love your leftovers.........................18


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