What people say about British Food Fortnight

Things are looking up here… Its British Food Fortnight. Every week is British Food Fortnight in my house.

Jonathan Ross

British Food Fortnight has longevity and is one of the highest profile awareness weeks.

Marketing magazine

The fast-growing umbrella organisation for all aspects of food is British Food Fortnight. Every year more and more organisations, restaurants, pubs and chefs get involved.

The Observer

British Food Fortnight kicks off at the end of September and the country is going gourmet crazy.

The Sun

British Food Fortnight is growing bigger and more influential each year.

Daily Mail

British Food Fortnight: what better time to go out and demand the very best British produce.

Daily Express

We love British Food Fortnight!

Dave Myers & Simon King, BBC’s Hairy Biker celebrity chefs

British Food Fortnight is the perfect time for all of us to out and demand home-grown produce.

Antony Worrall Thompson

There will be lots of focus on classic British food over the coming weeks as the fifth British Food Fortnight gets into gear. I have no doubt that the very best of British meat, poultry, dairy, fruit and vegetables will get deserved attention in restaurants and pubs nationwide.

Gordon Ramsay, in The Times

British Food Fortnight will provide teachers and pupils with inspiration and practical help.

Daily Mail

British Food Fortnight is the perfect opportunity to sample more of the nation’s diverse and delicious dishes.

Evening Standard magazine

British Food Fortnight can increase sales by 34%.

Asian Trader

Caterer loves…British Food Fortnight.

Caterer and Hotelkeeper

Catering establishments taking part in British Food Fortnight have proved that buying British can be affordable and add real value to profits.

Catering Manager magazine

A stomach-rumbling celebration of all that is tasty in Britain

Child Education magazine

British food’s biggest event – British Food Fortnight.

Convenience Store magazine

I am immensely impressed by the ingenuity and imagination of the schools that have taken part in British Food Fortnight over the last few years.

HRH The Prince of Wales

Long Live British Food Fortnight!

Country Life

Two weeks of treats: the annual celebration of British food, British Food Fortnight.

Telegraph magazine

Good news… its British Food Fortnight and the organisers have put the Ooo back into food!

Terry Wogan

A splendid tea-time treat from the girls who organise British Food Fortnight…” and then went on to describe the cake. Mentioned the Fortnight and/or the cake three or four times in the afternoon.

Test Match Special Team, BBC Radio 4 LW

As British Food Fortnight gets into gear...I have no doubt that the very best of British...will get deserved attention in…restaurants and pubs nationwide.

Gordon Ramsay, in The Times

Take part in British Food Fortnight – an established date on the school calendar.

Education Business magazine

British Food Fortnight will dramatically increase the profile of British food.

Farmers Guardian

Long may British Food Fortnight celebrate the best of British home-grown food.

Farmers Weekly

British Food Fortnight brings us together in celebration of all that is great about our wonderful food and drink – from our gastro pubs and chippies, to our Sunday roast and farmers markets.

Secretary of State Elizabeth Truss

British Food Fortnight is forcing a sea-change in demand from traditionally large-volume, low-cost caterers.

Food Manufacture

I am starting up a food technology department in a school and I can think of nothing better than to get involved in British Food Fortnight to make the parents sit up and notice!!!

Sally Walsh, Food Technology Teacher

The children said it was the best school trip they’d ever been on and they all came back full of enthusiasm for food and cooking. For us, that’s what it’s all about.

Luke Hamm, Banqueting Co-ordinator, Ye Olde Plough House, Bulphan, Essex, which invited schools to visit its kitchen and learn how food grows and is cooked

As farmers we think this promotion is fantastic!

Fiona and David Morton, Carpenters Farm Shop, Great Bentley, Essex

 I have just read through ‘Putting the Ooo back into food’ (the Resource Pack for Schools) and I think it’s brilliant.

Kate Pratt, Food Technology graduate with 15 years industrial experience wanting to teach in schools during British Food Fortnight.

British Food Fortnight is a multi-million pound opportunity for UK farmers.

Farmers Weekly

Fuel retailers who take their convenience store food sales seriously can boost those sales on the back of British Food Fortnight.

Forecourt magazine

British Food Fortnight…a national celebration of the best in regional foods and drinks.

Hello magazine

Make [this] the year you put your full support behind British Food Fortnight

Hospitality Matters

British Food Fortnight promises the opportunity to attract new guests, increase the spend of regular customers and establish a point of difference over competitors.

Hotel Business

British Food Fortnight, the annual celebration of home-produced fare.

The Independent

British Food Fortnight offers a real profit opportunity for independent retailers.

Independent Retail News

Any pub failing to make plans for British Food Fortnight may want to rethink that decision.

The Publican

We think the event is great!

Suzi Watford, Head of Partnership Marketing, The Times

British Food Fortnight…the biggest national event marking the diverse range of food that Britain produces.

Tandoori Magazine

British Food Fortnight provides the retailer with a fantastic opportunity to build on current initiatives with the support of a nationally recognised and supported event. Campaigns like British Food Fortnight work.

Tim Kershaw , MD Libra Europe leading food consultants, writing in The Grocer

British Food Fortnight: what better time to highlight some of the more unusual foods available from Britain these days.

The Times

britishfoodfortnight.co.uk is a wonderful resource. 

Times Educational Supplement

Thousands of chefs will be on standby to teach pupils about food and how to cook throughout British Food Fortnight.

The Times Educational Supplement

British Food Fortnight is a very fine thing.

Tom Norrington Davies, Food Writer for the Telegraph

British Food Fortnight is a huge force for good.

Tom Parker Bowles

I'm always delighted to support British Food Fortnight, which I think is such an important initiative.

Vanessa Berridge, BBC Good Food

I wish every fortnight was British Food Fortnight.

Terry Wogan, Radio 2

During British Food Fortnight the BBC canteen were all wearing "Love British Food" t-shirts!

BBC employee

British Food Fortnight’s initiative sending chefs into schools is an invaluable way of teaching the next generation and we have loved being a part of it.

Dave Myers & Simon King, BBC’s ‘Hairy Bikers’ celebrity chefs who gave children at Wilson’s Endowed C.E. School, Lancashire a cooking lesson during British Food Fortnight.

British Food Fortnight brought our school alive with wonderful smells, vibrant colours, excited chatter and squeals of excitement.

Lisa Mannall, Head teacher at Trenance Infant School

This was the first year we participated and we will definitely do so again.

Alex Ellwood, Greencroft Community School, Co. Durham

British Food Fortnight is an established date on the school calendar.

Article in Lessons in Learning

It was great fun – I wish we could do it all again next week!

S3 Pupil at Linlithgow Academy  

It was a brilliant fortnight and all our children were able to gain valuable life skills and learn where their food comes from.

Alexandra Special School, South Harrow

We will definitely be making this a yearly event!

Collaton St Mary Primary School

The whole school really enjoyed taking part in British Food Fortnight, and our invited guests loved their meals!

Dawn Finlayson, Principal Teacher, Stenton Primary School

The British Food Fortnight Cook for Life Challenge is a great initiative, and we’ll be making sure that we are fully equipped to enter again this year

Gunthorpe Primary School, Peterborough

British Food Fortnight highlighted how beneficial food based activities are to the children.

Head, Thornton Primary School, Thornton Cleveleys

The class teacher and pupils had a great time making soups, smoothies and omelettes for British Food Fortnight. Thanks for creating such a great competition.

Ian Jones, Headteacher, Ysgol San Sior, Conwy Wales

We have taken part in British Food Fortnight before and will continue to do so. It is a very enjoyable event and all the students are budding chefs.

Jay Harper, teacher, the Friary School, Staffordshire

Looking forward to another exciting fortnight!!!

Jo Matthews, School Meals Development Officer, Wolverhampton City Council

As always, the British Food Fortnight resources are fantastic

Jo Matthews, School Meals Development Officer, Wolverhampton City Council

There was a real buzz around the school for the whole fortnight. The children thoroughly enjoyed the activities that had been put on and the skills they learnt can be developed in our food themed topics in term 3.

Mrs Kelsey, Teacher, Sutton Benger C of E Aided School

All the children really enjoyed the British Food Fortnight challenge ad it generated lots of discussion in the school and around the village. The children absolutely loved serving up the food to our guests, so hopefully a few mums and dads will get breakfast in bed as a spin off!

Lena Stranks, Teacher, Willersey CofE Primary School

There was a lovely atmosphere in the school and I have already had people ask when we will be doing it again.

Lorna Watson, Deputy Headteacher, St Marks Primary School, Hadlow Down, whose pupils invited elderly members of the community to join them for a spot of tea.