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The Season's Best Edible Flowers
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The Season's Best Edible Flowers

Flowers can look great in your home or your garden, providing a flash of beauty and colour. But now, thanks to Fine Food Specialist, it’s easier than ever to get beautiful flowers on your plate and enjoy them in a whole new way.

Celebrate Chinese New Year In Style
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Celebrate Chinese New Year In Style

Chinese New Year takes place on Tuesday 5th February this year, with millions of people around the world coming together to celebrate this great event. Regardless of your nationality or background, there’s no reason to miss out on the chance to enjoy some exquisite food options. At Fine Food Specialist, we love this celebration and have created a dedicated range of Chinese New Year food for you to enjoy. But we also want to provide you with some background as to why this event is truly special.

The best ways to enjoy Oysters
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The best ways to enjoy Oysters

Oysters have long been seen as a delicacy and a much sought after culinary product. Not only are they delicious, but oysters bring about a host of other benefits. They’re packed full of protein, can support the health of your heart, improve circulation and your immunity levels. Additionally and somewhat famously, oysters are widely thought of as being an aphrodisiac.

At Fine Food Specialist, we have a wide selection of oyster products available for you to buy from our online store. But to help you get the most out of your purchase, we’ve put together this handy blog.

Go Gourmet with your BBQ Food this Summer
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Go Gourmet with your BBQ Food this Summer

There’s nothing like getting your family and friends together and enjoying the sunny weather with a nice summer barbeque. But though the company and the weather may be nice, sometimes the meats and food used served up at a BBQ are not quite up to scratch.

To help you reach superior levels of culinary excellence this summer, Fine Food Specialist has put together a series of Gourmet Food Boxes that are perfect for BBQs. Our aim is to help you provide a higher standard of food for you and your guests to enjoy. Why not go gourmet and try something a little different when it comes to selecting the meats and other foods for your summer event?

forced rhubarb
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January Gems

January is traditionally a time when we’re bombarded with healthy eating advice and the national mindset shifts its focus to diet mode. Whether you subscribe or not, the beginning of the year can often be a time when meal inspiration is lacking; fresh produce is sparse and at its least varied. But help is at hand. I’ve pulled together a few of my favourite late winter ingredients to help bring a little excitement to the post Christmas blues.

a stack of cookbooks
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The Editorial Team's Favourite Cookbooks

Cookbooks offer everyone something different. Some people look to them for guidance, others use them for inspiration and some simply enjoy looking at the pictures and reading through the tit-bits of prose. At Fine Food Specialist we frequently discuss how we use our cookbooks and in the Content Team we often excitedly recommend our favourites to each other while enjoying leftovers for lunch.