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Borough Market will not renew its lease, says Bread Ahead
The bakery started at Borough with a stall and three products in 2013. It now trades in Dubai, Bangkok and Saudi Arabia, and opens in New York in November.
Sustainable Seafood September champions British seafood
James Strawbridge's five-dish collection backs Scottish herring, Irish and Scottish mussels and Cornish sardines, with Waitrose, Aldi and five other retailers behind the blue MSC label.
World Cheese Awards close their entry list on 15 September
The 38th edition moves to Córdoba on 12 November, with more than 5,000 cheeses and about 300 judges expected in a single hall in Andalusia.
Alba white truffle fair runs from 10 October to 6 December
The 96th edition opens the season in Piedmont with nine weekends of market trading, a quality commission on the tables and the charity auction on 8 November.
Olive oil prices sit low as Spain's next crop wobbles
Extra virgin is trading around four euros a kilo at origin while early field data points to a sharp fall in flowering fertility for the 2026/27 harvest.
Cocoa crop forecasts fall across Ivory Coast and Ghana
The Ivorian main harvest opens this month with early surveys pointing to 1.8 million tonnes, down about 18%, while Ghana's regulator has cut its own range by a third.
Twenty-three green stars, and only eight of them shine twice
Sustainability now has its own scoreboard in the Dutch guide. Most of the kitchens on it hold no regular star at all, and that is the interesting part.
North Sea in September, sole up and plaice under question
Sole advice is up 16.4% for 2026, skippers say the plaice numbers do not match the nets, and Zeeland mussels are back after the worst season of the century.
Boerenkaas: what the EU raw-milk rule actually protects
A protected name that fixes neither a place nor a recipe, only where the milk came from and the fact that nobody heated it. On a trolley, that is the whole point.
Inside Rotterdam's wholesale market before the city wakes
A silent short film follows crates of vegetables, fruit and potatoes through Rotterdam's Groothandelsmarkt, hours before the public markets open.
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