Chit-Chat

Keelham delights Bradford customer during National Vegetarian Week!

Vegetables don’t have to be boring! That was our motto During National vegetarian week from 21st to 27th May, and we had lots of inspiring veggie recipes to help show you how to create interesting veggie meals. National vegetarian week is the UK’s annual awareness-raising campaign promoting inspirational vegetarian food and the benefits of a meat-free lifestyle.

During the week we also ran a competition to win a £100 Keelham meat-free hamper... [More]

Bronte Vintage hamper winner overjoyed with Yorkshire goodies

Bronte Vintage Gathering held at Cullingworth Fields over the weekend of 12th and 13th of May was a great success helping us promote local food to all ages.

We had a great competition running over the weekend to win a Best of Yorkshire hamper... [More]

Great offer for British tomato week!

To celebrate 'British Tomato Week' from 28th May to 3rd June, we’re giving you some delicious tomato recipes in the shop. Plus, there'll be a fantastic special offer... [More]

Jubilee countdown with Keelham

This week we have been helping you prepare for your Jubilee celebrations by providing you with ideas for a right royal knees up! Our Funkin' cocktails are a great product and a fun way to make your BBQ or party a bit different. [More]

Our chicks in Home and Garden have hatched

Our followers on social media - Twitter and Facebook may have already spotted our picture of the resident nesting hedge sparrow in Home and Garden's gas cage from April. Her chicks have now happily flown the nest. Now we have some Robin chicks.... [More]

Masterchef's Tom Rennolds gets a taste of Yorkshire on food tour

As we mentioned in our previous blog post, we were delighted to be asked to host a visit yesterday from MasterChef 2012 finalist Tom Rennolds as part of his ‘Best of Yorkshire Tasting Tour’ that’s running from 21st-25th May.

We had a fantastic afternoon, meeting Tom, his business partner and manager, Jonny Ross, and their camera crew from the Northern Film School. It was great to see such passion for Yorkshire food and entrepreneurial spirit! [More]

A Sausage Fit for the Queen - winner announced!

You might remember that during April we launched an exciting competition, challenging our customers to help us create a brand new sausage flavour fit for The Queen, to celebrate Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee this June.

We were really impressed by how creative and involved you all were – we received over 200 entries to the competition, which demonstrates how enthusiastic the people of Yorkshire were to create a new royal banger recipe! [More]

Sally our amazing tasting lady leaves for pastures new

After nearly three years at Keelham, Sally Keighley left us today. She has been a familiar face to our customers first in the Deli and in the last year or so as 'the lady with the samples'. [More]

Keelham's playing host to Masterchef Finalist Tom Rennolds!

We’re all getting very excited to be hosting a visit from Yorkshire lad Tom Rennolds, who was a finalist in this year’s MasterChef 2012 show.

Not only are we huge fans of Tom, but we also really support what he’s trying to achieve with promoting Yorkshire’s fantastic food industry. [More]

Yorkshire’s Young Chefs visit Keelham for menu inspiration

On Thursday 10th May Keelham played host to trainee chefs from Bradford’s Forster Community College and Leeds-based restaurant and social enterprise The Create Foundation, who have been challenged to cook up a real Yorkshire feast to buck the trend of doom and gloom.

Like Keelham, both organisations are passionate about great food, and they are working together to help the trainees source, plan and serve a gourmet dinner to showcase their talents in a competition at Foster’s Bistro on Thursday 24th May 2012. [More]