Sale of the Century

Innovation across the nation

Wales’ biggest food and drink trade event BlasCymru/TasteWales is back featuring a host of exciting new products, perfect for restaurateurs, retailers and hungry diners!

The Partnership, Spiced Haloumi Burger

St Brides Spa

Radnor Hills Water

Over a 100 new food and drink products will be launched at BlasCymru/TasteWales at The Celtic Manor on March 20 and 21. This will be the second time the international trade event has taken place and all the signs are very encouraging. The inaugural event generated £14 million for the food and drink industry in Wales. Over 450 delegates attended, including more than 150 national and international buyers from 14 countries, and in excess of 100 Welsh food and drink producers, showcased over 800 products.

There’s a real smorgasbord of new products on offer including creamy yoghurts, zesty sauces, healthy veggie and vegan products, smart new food service offers for busy chefs and unique innovative packaging options for retailers. Here’s a sneak peak at few of our favourites:

No normal veggie burger

Since starting with a stall at The Riverside Market in Cardiff 12 years ago Ben Moss, founder of The Parsnipship Ltd, has taken his pioneering approach to vegetarian and vegan food to a much higher level. Of course, he was way ahead of the crowd, long before Veganism became so popular. These days the company’s tasty vegetarian and vegan products like Moroccan Cashew and Walnut Roast and Beetroot Bomb can be bought online and are delivered chilled with 10 days shelf life and suitable for freezing. Commenting on plans for BlasCymru/TasteWales, Director Flo Ticehurst said: “We have four new lines coming out: two veggie and two vegan burgers. We were inspired to start our business after years of being disappointed at the meagre offerings available for vegetarians and vegans. TasteWales is a great time to showcase some new products as well as our wider offer.”

The Parsnipship, Penllwyngwent, Saville Road, Ogmore Vale, Bridgend, CF32 7AX. 01656 857130 ben@theparsnipship.co.uk www.theparsnipship. co.uk

Extra energy and vitamins

The source of Radnor Hills spring waters lies in the old county of Radnorshire in Mid Wales. It’s a wild, under populated area. The water filters naturally through layers of eons-old rock to achieve its exceptional taste and purity. You can already enjoy Radnor Hills’ spring water in a range of natural fruit flavours, still and sparkling. We’re also big fans of their premium fruit pressé drinks sold under their Heartsease Farm brand. At the show, Radnor Hills, are launching a range of Natural Energy Water, which contains zero sugar and added B vitamins. William Watkins, Managing Director said: “We wanted to create the ultimate energy water which contains natural caffeine and is designed to give consumers a convenient energy boost without the dreaded sugar crash. We at Radnor Hills are hoping to revitalise, rejuvenate and refresh the nation in a healthy, natural way.”

Radnor Hills Water Heartsease, Knighton, Powys, LD7 1LU. 01547 530220 www.radnorhills.co.uk

The Coconut Kitchen Patchwork Traditional Food Company Daffodil Foods

Cwm Farm Charcuterie

Sauce in all the right places

From its home in Abersoch on the Llŷn Peninsula, e Coconut Kitchen has won a host of awards for its amazingly authentic range of ai sauces, pastes and marinades. e business has come a long way since Head Chef Preechaya started cooking ai food out of a food truck in 2006. Now the team are launching a new foodservice range for four of their products. Director Paul Withington comments “We have had a lot of requests for foodservice over the last two years and now that we have sold our restaurant, we decided it was the right time to go into this market with two of our bestselling curry pastes and Vegan stir-fry sauce.” e catering packs of sauces will come in convenient 2.5 litre containers, ideal for busy chefs in the restaurant trade.

CK Food and Drinks Ltd, Llanbedrog Pwllheli, Gwynedd, LL53 7PG. 0870 850 8862 www.thecoconutkitchen.co.uk

Choose the perfect chews

Cwm Farm Charcuterie started as husband and wife team Ruth and Andrew Davies selling their home reared bacon and sausages from a food trailer on the A4067 in Pontardawe. ese days they create all manner of tasty treats, in particular a range of unusual salamis. At BlasCymru/TasteWales they are launching a range of products that use a totally natural preservative to keep them fresh for longer. Working with Welsh beekeepers, they are using beeswax which is a by-product of honey production as a preserver. And the avours are pretty unusual too. How about salami with Welsh leek and Salami with Laverbread? is goes with their range of uniquely tasty Biltongs. ere’s Biltong coated in Laverbread and Biltong Coated in Piri Piri for extra bite!

Cwmfarm Charcuterie Products Salami HQ / Unit 5 Cwmtawe Business Park, Pontardawe. Swansea SA8 4EZ. 07446 555102 cwmfarm@ hotmail.co.uk www.cwmfarm.co.uk

Burgers without the beef

Patchwork Traditional Food Company have already made a bit of a reputation for themselves with their unique range of handmade patés - they make over 30 of them with some really unusual avours - how about Chicken Liver with Cointreau and Orange? And they also make the UK’s only frozen Chicken Liver Parfait - known a ectionately as Posh Paté! ere’s also a light range - low calorie, high protein and gluten free. Finally, healthy indulgence has arrived. But it’s not all about meat. ey’re catering for herbivores with their new products to be launched at the show. eir in-house team of chefs has created a range of cook-from-frozen vegan and plantbased meat balls and burgers. ese include pungent Chinese Beet Balls, zingy Indian Spice Burgers and also Vegan Bacon Jam!

e Patchwork Traditional Food Company, Lon Parcwr, Ruthin, Denbighshire, LL15 1NJ. 0845 123 5010 info@patchwork-pate. co.uk www.patchworkfoods.com

Pack in more bacon

As anyone in the hospitality trade will tell you, size matters. Larger packs with more of the product take up less space and produce less waste. e team at Edwards of Conwy butchers are responding to this demand with new larger packs of their award-winning bacon geared for restaurants, cafes, and hotels. As Simon James Edwards’ MD says: “Recently we’ve seen a gap emerging within the bacon market, as a result we’ve developed a premium o ering within the wholesale and foodservice arena. Our new lines will provide consistently highquality British Bacon, traditionally cured by hand in Wales, the ideal solution for the more discerning customer.” e new formats being launched at the show are Dry Cured Smoke Flavour British Bacon - Made in Wales 4kg (4 x 1kg) and Dry Cured British Bacon - Made in Wales 4kg (4 x 1kg). For added convenience Edwards ensure the same number of rashers per case.

Edwards of Conwy, 18 High Street, Conwy LL32 8DE. 01492 592443 www. edwardsofconwy.co.uk

This clot’s got the lot

Why is it that in Wales you o en don’t get Welsh clotted cream with your cream tea? It’s time to stop settling for Devon or Cornish! Da odil Foods, the brainchild of Lynne King who is a thriving North Wales business using the very creamiest of Welsh milk in its range of uniquely lush yoghurts with decidedly unusual avours like Alphonso Mango and Passionfruit. At Taste Wales Lynne and team are branching out, using their vast dairy expertise to produce amazing proper Welsh Clotted Cream made from cream produced in Holm House Welsh farms by Welsh cows. is new range of clotted cream products is currently aimed at trade and hospitality. We’re hoping they might start selling it to the general public too!

Da odil Foods, Canolfan Fenter, Congl Meinciau, Botwnnog, Pwllheli, Gwynedd LL53 8RA. 01758 770 005 sales@ da odilfoods.co.uk www.da odilfoods.co.uk

Get drastic about plastic

Princes Gate is a spring water company based on an organic dairy farm in the foothills of the Preseli mountains. e company was set up by two brothers 27 years ago and their family have been farming the land around the factory for generations. Sustainability is key to the business and in recent years they’ve made big changes in production processes to reduce the amount of plastic needed for bottling. ey’ve also installed solar power and wind turbines and all their packaging including the label is 100% recyclable. But why not use 100% recyclable. But why not use recycled plastic in the rst place recycled plastic in the rst place too? At BlasCymru/TasteWales too? At BlasCymru/TasteWales they’re announcing plans to they’re announcing plans to double the amount of recycled double the amount of recycled plastic used in their bottles from 25% to 51%. Expect to see them adding to their existing brace of awards for sustainable, carbon friendly business practices in the very business practices in the very near future.

Princes Gate Spring Water, Princes Gate Spring Water, Princes Gate, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, SA67 8JD. 01834 831 225 www. princesgate.com