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Monday 9 December 2019

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Foodie Heaven Christmas gift

You can book your foodies on to a New Wild Food Online Cooking Courses from Miles Irving, Forager for The World’s Top Chefs, on Learning with Experts.

Learning with Experts is embracing an anti-consumerism, and ‘back to nature’ sentiment this Christmas, by launching online courses with the world’s top forager and authority on wild foods, Miles Irving. These online courses make the perfect gift for foodies and aspiring chefs and can be gifted from today onward.

Irving has worked with some of the world’s top chefs and restaurants. These include Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck, Rene Redzepi, Magnus Nilsson and the Hix restaurants. He is a pioneer in the Wild Food Renaissance and has extensive knowledge of the unique flavours and stories of wild foods. Irving is also an internationally acclaimed public speaker and the author of ‘The Forager Handbook’ - hailed by many as ‘the forager’s bible’.

Learning with Experts has launched two new online courses taught by Irving. You can gift these courses today for Christmas gifts, and the classes start from March 2020 onwards.

A course at the ‘Expert’ level costs £109, and you will get feedback on your cooking and foraging from Miles and his team.

Foodies will watch videos, chat to classmates, discuss topics with Miles, and get feedback on your assignments (submitted with text, video and photos). For £29 you can still follow the course curriculum, with videos, notes, and compare notes with classmates too as you go through.

Elspeth Briscoe, Learning with Experts CEO, explains: “You’re taught in the Learning with Experts online classroom, with 20 other students. In your online class you’ll watch videos where Miles takes you on a journey of delights of wild foods and foraging.

"During the lessons Irving shares secrets of how top chefs are starting to cook with wild and foraged food, and the tastes and recipes they’re trying. He then sets you assignments for both cooking and foraging, based on what you’ve learnt during your lessons. If you choose the expert version of the course, Miles and his team will personally mark your assignments and give you feedback in the online classroom. A unique opportunity to be taught by a world expert in wild food and foraging, wherever you are in the world. We’re already seeing people gift these courses to their food loving relatives, as well as enthusiasts, aspiring and professional chefs signing up to these courses.”

During the first course, ‘Foraging’ Miles celebrates new yet ancient flavours, rediscovering the nutritional properties of wild plants and reconnecting with the land. Irving explains: “This vital link means we thrive, eating well and working with the wild ecology of places”. The course has four lessons in it with clear learning outcomes for each lesson.

Whilst examples used in this course are in Miles’s own food web, a habitat which happens to be in the UK, the principles of this course apply to foraging all over the world. You are encouraged to share your own environments and discussion on wild foods throughout the course, wherever you’re located.

During the second course, ‘Cooking with wild food’, Miles has teamed up with some of his favourite chefs and together they take you through the journey of foraging, cooking and tasting the following wild foods: Stalks and stems, Wild aromatics, Seaweed and Edible flowers

CEO Elspeth Briscoe continued: “The Learning with Experts campaign ‘Gift Learning Not Clutter’ is attracting attention this Christmas, especially for those who value education and experiential gifts over and above the over indulgence of collecting more goods or possessions that many people really don’t need. Miles Irving is known as a pioneer in the chef’s community, and we’re excited to be able to bring his expertise to a global audience through these online courses.”

www.learningwithexperts.com.

This is a video of a presentation by Miles:-

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Sunday 8 December 2019

Talking Bing the Rabbit and Talking Sula

Bing the little bunny rabbit is a sure fire hit with young children when they see the little chap on BBC TV's CBeebies channel.

Bing is a smartly dressed pre-school bunny rabbit who gets into all sorts of adventures as he learns about the world around him.

And now parents, grandparents, older brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles can really please the little ones this Christmas, because they can buy them their very own talking Bing bunny rabbit.

This cute and cuddly Talking Bing Soft Toy is perfect for hugs as it’s made from super-soft textured fabric. Talking Bing has over 15 fun phrases to delight and entertain fans such as ‘Hi, I’m Bing! What’s your name?’ Simply press Bing’s button to hear him talk and giggle. Bingsters will love to re-create their favourite Bing stories, listen to Bing talk and interact with him.

Bing is available from good toy retailers and from on line retailers, too for about £16.00, RRP.

And you can also buy his cute little friend, Talking Sula, for about the same price, too. She also appears on the programmes with Bing.

It's been noticed that some boys tend to prefer Bing and that some girls tend to prefer Sula.

So, why not buy Bing and Sula at the same time?

Bing and Sula are made by a British company called Golden Bear.

Golden Bear point out where you can buy them and their other products from here:- https://www.goldenbeartoys.com/pages/retailers.