insideKENT Magazine Issue 49 - April 2016 | Page 38
FOOD+DRINK
Taste of Kent Awards 2016 cont.
Best Kent Food Product of the Year
Winner: The Captain’s Crackers, Cracked
Black Pepper & Sea Salt – The Zingiberi
Bakery, Herne Bay
Sponsored by HSBC
Kent Countryside Award
Large - Hush Heath, Staplehurst
Small - Hollin Root Farm, Cranbrook
Sponsored by Kent Downs and
High Weald AONBs
Kent Juice Producer of the Year
Winner: Chegworth Valley Juices,
Harrietsham
K ent Dining Pub of the Year
Winner: The George Inn, Molash
Garden of England Champions – Top Fruit
Finalists:
King and Queen, East Malling
The Kings Head, Wye
Sponsored by Page & Wells
Pears – Concorde by David Stevens,
Lower Halstow
Apples – Cameo by Newmafruit, Chartham
Sponsored by BTF Partnership
Kent Food Producer of the Year
Winner: AMC Foods Limited, Manston
Garden of England Champions – Soft Fruit
Finalists:
Samovar Foods, Aylesham
Thomas Cookie Co., Maidstone
Sponsored by Shopper Anonymous Kent
Produced in Kent Award 2016
Cherries – John Myatt & Co, nr Rochester
Strawberries – John Myatt & Co, nr Rochester
Raspberries – John Myatt & Co, nr Rochester
Sponsored by East Malling Research
There were a number of winners who were
new to the list of finalists including: C.A.
Worgans Butchers, Googies, Hinxden Farm
Dairy, Hollin Root Farm, Hush Heath, John
Myatt & Co, Kentish Pip, Paramour Pie Club,
Peter’s Produce, Rochester Farmers’ Market,
Romney Marsh Brewery, The Goods Shed,
Alexandra Auger, The Zingiberi Bakery and
Matthew Kearsey-Lawson.
Last year’s winners celebrating again this year
include AMC Foods, Anno Distillers,
Chapel Down, Chegworth Valley, Hudson’s
Fish, L. Stevens & Son, Newmafruit, and The
George Inn.
Finalists: The Cherry Berry Co., Bexleyheath
Nightingales (Gibbet Oak), Tenterden
Sponsored by AC Goatham & Son
Winner: Matthew Kearsey-Lawson
– in recognition of his commitment to Kent
food and drink.
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This year’s awards are run with sponsorship from Cripps LLP
(Main Sponsor), Biddenden Vineyards, BTF Partnership, East
Malling Research, Eurostar, AC Goatham & Son, Hadlow
College, HSBC, Hush Heath Estate, Moors, Opies, Page &
Wells, Rix & Kay, Shepherd Neame, Shopper Anonymous,
Stephen’s, Thomson, Snell and Passmore, The University of
Kent, Wilkins Kennedy FKC, High Weald AONB, The Kent
Downs AONB, Kent Event Centre, and insideKENT Magazine.