Competition: Unexpectedly Yorkshire

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If it ain’t Wensleydale, a Yorkshire pud or a pie you might as well feed it to the whippet, right?

Wrong – Yorkshire’s teeming with fresh produce and fresh ideas when it comes to foody treats. This event on Thursday 5th April in the rather grand setting of the Corn Exchange celebrates all things edible in Yorkshire. You might just be surprised what this county has to offer!

Unexpectedly Yorkshire might just inspire you to pick up a few new ingredients the next day, too, when the ever popular Cornucopia returns to the Corn Exchange once again for Good Food Friday. This free-to-enter event will feature some of the finest produce the North has to offer.

Unexpectedly Yorkshire is a ticketed event – you can get your tickets here – or if you’re feeling lucky, you can enter our competition. We’ll be giving away two pairs of tickets.  Just let us know in the comments below what your favourite Yorkshire food is (tip: the more unexpected, the better!). We’ll pick and notify the winners on Wednesday, so make sure you enter by midnight on Tuesday 3rd April.

7 comments

  1. I love a bit of apple sauce with pork (well, with anything), so my special pick would be a handmade pork pie baked with an apple sauce topping, which I bought from The Balloon Tree, a farm shop just on the other side of York.

  2. I’m loving Yorkshire chorizo at the moment. Braising it in a bit of sherry vinegar, scoring then flash frying some baby north sea squid and stuffing the chorizo inside the body with some crunchy spring salad is a really nice way to have it! So, yes, that – and at the Slung Low Christmas Fayre I bought some ‘Meg’s Sloe Gin’ – I don’t know who Meg is, or where in Leeds she is, if she even runs a foodie business – but it made Christmas time all the better!

  3. After a 23-year-long hatred of mushrooms, the traders at Leeds’ Briggate Farmer’s Market have converted me into a mushroom devotee! Attracted by the colourful array of locally grown mushrooms, I bought a gourmet mushroom box. I then popped to a nearby stall where I purchased a piece of Italian goat’s cheese from a veritable Italian stallion who boasted that he made his cheese from scratch in Leeds. With my remaining 50p, I bought a French stick from a baker’s stall. Sunday lunch: gourmet mushrooms on bruschetta topped with a shaving of Italian/Yorkshire cheese… mushroom heaven. A new Yorkshire favourite!

  5. Can you beat a sarnie from Bakery 164? Sweet Potato sandwich has to be the Yorkshire food for me.

  6. I got married last year and we had a 3 tier pork pie wedding cake from Wilsons in crossgates (also Armley). Everyone loved it and I think we inspireed some others to think along the same lines. One of the nicest things about it was going to the farmer’s market on a Sunday in the outside market in town and buying a multitiude of pork pies then tasting them to find the best !

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