A Walk Exploring 800 Years of Islingtons Food History Islington is famous for its bars and restaurants but its links with food go back to the Middle Ages. This walk looks at how Islington has kept London fed for the last 800 years. In this one and a half hour walk around one of London's liveliest areas you’ll hear about dishes like White Conduit Rolls, Islington Cheesecake and White Pot, you’ll hear about Cream and Cake Boys, Nippies and Merry Milkmaids, and get to see the home of Webb’s Soda Water and Mad Frankie Frasers favourite café. If your interested in food history, like exploring Londons side streets or simply want to build up an appetite this walk is for you.

Are your a teacher with access to an oven and want to show your pupils how to bake Real Bread? In support of the Real Bread Campaign, on Wednesday 25 January Katie Caldesi is holding a half day workshop at her Marylebone cookery school La Cucina Caldesi to help school teachers and cooks run Real Bread making classes in their own schools. A cookery book author and well-known face to viewers of BBC TV shows including Saturday Kitchen and MasterChef, Katie is hosting this one-off session for a limited number of teachers from 9.30am to 12.30pm at her cookery school’s purpose-built training kitchen. The workshop will cover making basic Real Breads, including white and wholemeal loaves or rolls, plus healthy veggie pizza, with advice on how to fit bread making into the school day. In support of the Campaign’s mission to put Lessons in Loaf on the timetable, La Cucina Caldesi cookery school is offering places in this Real Bread workshop at the very generously discounted rate of just £30 per person, including a light lunch. Places are available to teachers and school cooks who don't teach Real Bread baking already but have the commitment and access to facilities to start doing so. To register please download the application form from the Lessons in Loaf page at www.realbreadcampaign.org Find more information about the cookery school at www.caldesi.com/la_cucina_caldesi/

Learn to set up your own home baking business. Earn some money, do something meaningful, develop your local community and build relationships! Baking, sales and marketing, admin and logistics. 10 am to 4 pm saturday and sunday.

Shaping Breads with Sachi 11-4pm Cost £20 Booking essential Do you want to learn the basic, intermediate and more advanced fundamental techniques and styles of shaping dough to create beautiful bread? Come to our all day workshop on Sunday the 29th January at the Hornbeam Centre from 11-4pm We will be learning: -Pre and final shaping techs such as rounding, pulling and rolling. -Different styles of shaping such as rolls, batards, baguettes, Kaiser, Epi, Plaiting/braiding.. -Cutting and scoring techniques for final baking By the end of the workshop you will receive various shaped breads to keep or share and some valuable skills to take away with you for the next time! Please book in advance to reserve a place at hornbeambakers@googlegroups.com Workshop is limited to 10 places. We can only refund cancellations if they are a minimum of a week in advance of the workshop. (We endeavour to provide affordable, accessible learning but if you cannot meet the cost of the course please contact us to arrange a place for what you can afford; at the same time, and since the project is self funded, if you can afford more than the course fee we gladly accept donations) The facilitators of the bread workshops at the Hornbeam Centre are from the Hornbeam Bakers Collective. We are a collective of bakers for the Hornbeam Cafe, Hornbeam Box Scheme, Horrnbeam Saturday Stall, Leytonstone Saturday Market, Growing Communities Market and various other events. We are currently seeking funding for our project. Please get in touch if you'd like to support us hornbeambakers@googlegroups.com