North East Ice Cream Producer wins UK Fortnum and Mason Supreme Champion Award
19th September 2008
Categories: Green & Local
Beckleberry’s of Blaydon Take Top Prize at Industry's Most Coveted Awards
For the second time in three years a North East food producer has won one of the most prestigious awards in the international food industry – the Fortnum & Mason Trophy for the Supreme Champion at the Great Taste Awards held in London in early September.
Father and son, Ian and Peter Craig, who run Beckleberry’s of Blaydon on Tyne, makers of quality ice cream and patisserie, beat off competition from over 2,000 small food producers in the UK and overseas, to land the top prize for their blackcurrant and kirsch sorbet.
“We are still in a state of shock,” said Ian. “We have won 46 Great Taste awards in the past seven years, but we never expected to win the supreme championship. I never slept a wink on Monday night after the awards ceremony. I couldn’t take it in.”
The Tyneside company, formerly known as Artisan Foods, was set up by Ian and Peter in 1996. Its success at the 2008 Great Taste Awards follows that of Burtree Puddings of Darlington, which won the supreme title in 2005 with their sticky toffee pudding.
You can read more about this story at http://www.northumbria-larder.co.uk/news_sept08_supreme.html
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