Features coming out soon

Lots of new food, drink and travel features are in the pipeline, here's what's coming up next:

The Channel 4 Food website have commissioned several new features for March and April 2010 to accompany their Spring television programming schedule. The number one food website from Channel 4 have commissioned two features -- a world restaurants feature, as well as a food feature accompanying the new Heston Blumenthal Feasts series, due to go live in March 2010. A drinks feature is also in the pipeline for Spring.

The website for the UK's leading quality men's monthly magazine, GQ, have commissioned several features for the next few months for the newly re-launched GQ.com website. Look out for a comparative whisky feature, online in March; a Spanish ingredients food feature due online in March; a French restaurants feature, due online in March and a Spanish wine and travel feature, online in April.

Food and travel website Foodtripper.com are also publishing an Iceland food and travel feature, due online in Spring.

Leading men's ladies' clothing company Aubin & Wills produces a quarterly customer magazine, the Aubin & Wills Almanac. Look out for an entrepreneur feature, in print for Summer 2010.

Links to all these news stories and features will be added to the Craig Butcher website and to this blog when they become available. Click here to read more about Craig Butcher, freelance food, drink and travel writer at the Craig Butcher website.

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Vodka tasting panel for Harpers Wine & Spirit

"A vodka tasting considering 39 different products threw up plenty of thought-provoking comment. Tom Sandham was on hand to report back on the findings.

Often unfairly tagged as an oxymoron, a “vodka tasting” can actually prove quite an eye opener. In fact, the only genuine criticism you might level at the process is that consumers simply don’t drink the stuff neat. If they did, then perhaps some of the misconceptions could be reassessed, and if they were to try as many as 39 of them, divided into different style categories, they’d agree there’s a substantial range in the flavours.

This was the task set by Harpers Wine & Spirit as the category was given a proper once over. Invited to the tasting party were world-class palates such as bar operator Jake Burger from Jake’s Bar & Grill in Leeds, Bibendum spirits buyer Will Lowe and broadcast superstar Nigel Barden. With such a high calibre of experience the chances of valuable assessment were high."

To read the full article by Tom Sandham for Harpers Wine & Spirit, including comments from freelance food and drink journalist Craig Butcher who was on the vodka tasting panel, click here to download the feature from the Craig Butcher website.

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My bloody messy Valentine for The Guardian Food website

"When it comes to Valentine's Day meals it's what's on the inside that counts, and frequently that's a very good thing indeed. Have you ever come a cropper dining with a date?

With Valentine's Day just around the bend, every Champagne merchant and oyster fisherman is doing their level best to convince us that the most romantic way to spend that particular Sunday is by force-feeding your significant other yeasted wine and raw molluscs."

To read the full article "My Bloody Messy Valentine" for The Guardian Food website, by freelance food and drink journalist Craig Butcher, click here to go to The Guardian Food website.

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Top 10 romantic British restaurant experiences

"Who says romance is dead? From the lochside to the seaside, hotel chic to rural retreat, there are some fantastically romantic restaurants to treat your special someone this Valentine's Day. Craig Butcher teases them out for 4Food."

To read the full article "Top 10 romantic British restaurant experiences" all about Britain's most romantic restaurants across the UK, from The Langham Hotel Landau restaurant to Galvin at Windows and Spanish tapas restaurant Brindisa, by freelance journalist Craig Butcher for the Channel 4 Food website, the UK's biggest food website, click here.

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Prague's Best Hotels for The Sunday Times Travel Magazine

"Musical genius, banking brilliance or quiet restraint - Czech into Prague's best beds"

To read the full article "Rest Assured: Prague" all about the best hotels in Prague, Czech Republic, to suit all budgets, including the Aria Hotel, the Carlo IV and the Kempinksi Hybernska, by freelance travel journalist Craig Butcher for leading monthly travel magazine, the Sunday Times Travel Magazine in the March 2010 issue, click here or pick up the issue on news-stands, available until March 3rd, 2010.

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