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Slow Food Awards 2024's Real Bread winners
Campaign supporters celebrated.
The Slow Food Awards 2024 have recognised the work of Real Bread Campaign supporters around the UK.
Winner in The Food Product of the Year category for England and the UK overall was a sourdough loaf, crafted by past Real Bread Campaign ambassador’s eponymous Peter Cooks Bread in Herefordshire.
Other Campaign supporters winning categories in their nations were:
- Slow Food Scotland’s Food Product of the Year: wholemeal loaf by Freedom Bakery in Glasgow.
- Slow Food Northern Ireland’s Producer of the Year: Counter Culture in Bangor.
- Slow Food Northern Ireland’s Food Product of the Year: sourdough focaccia by Counter Culture in Bangor.
The winners were decided by public vote, with the overall UK winner in each category being the entrant with the most votes across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
See also
- A quartet of awards for Real Bread
- Best bakery in Britain
- Real Bread wins Great Taste Awards
- Real Bread named Britain's Best Loaf
- Real Bread Campaign ambassador wins Britain's best artisan bakery award
- Real Bread Baker of The Year
- Real Bread scores Great Taste Awards hattrick
- Real Bread bakers make Britain’s best loaves
- Real Bread bakeries dominate UK’s best poll
- Slow Food UK names Peter Cook baker of the year
- MMM...Real Bread awards
- Real Bread Campaign ambassador named Baker of the Year
- Stars in their ryes
- Wild Hearth Bakery’s Highland hat trick
- Slow Food Awards honour Real Bread Campaigners
- Real Bread bakers scoop top awards
- Great Taste Real Bread winners
- Britain's Best Loaf is Real Bread
- Scottish Bread Championship winners announced
- Source of Success
- Bakers wear capes
- Best in dough
- Wholemeal sourdough named Britain’s Best Loaf
- Cereal champion
- World doughmination
- Real Bread rules! (again)
- Real Bread dominates the World Bread Awards
- A slice of the winnings
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