Sticky, sweet and savoury, Baba’s breakfast sows seeds for Great Taste success
Celebrating the very best in food and drink, Great Taste, the world’s most coveted food awards, has reached its grand finale for 2018. The Great Taste Golden Fork for the best food or drink from London & the South East was presented to Terra Rossa from Sutton, Surrey for its Baba’s Rashi & Dibis with Sesame Seeds. Described as a “genius blend”, this tahini and molasses spread had the Great Taste judges going back for more as they “loved the crunchy bite from the seeds and the unctuous molasses”. The “remarkable” sweet halva-like spread is a “great marriage of sweet and savoury” and can be spread on toast or digestive biscuits, stirred through porridge, rice pudding or custard, or simply drizzled over bananas.
Out of a record breaking 12,634 products entered into Great Taste 2018, Baba’s Rashi & Dibis with Sesame Seeds, which was inspired by Hanan Samara’s father’s secret breakfast concoction that he would eat before the rest of the family woke up, was celebrated as the best tasting product in its region at the Great Taste Golden Fork Dinner held on Sunday 2 September at the InterContinental Park Lane Hotel, London, where over 350 guests from the world of fine food gathered to hear the results of many months of rigorous judging.
Contact: Terra Rossa, Hanan Samara, 02086 6196995, www.terra-rossa.com
The Golden Fork from London & the South East was sponsored by Tenuta Marmorelle and also nominated this year was a Great Taste 3-star Nilgiri Mao Feng from London-based The Bellevue Tea Company Ltd and Tonkotsu for its Great Taste 3-star Eat the Bits Chilli Oil.
A full list of all Golden Fork trophy winners is available from amy@freshlygroundpr.co.uk.
- Great Taste is widely acknowledged as the most respected food accreditation scheme for artisan and speciality food producers
- A record breaking 12,634 different products were entered in 2018
- Over 500 of the most demanding palates, belonging to food critics, chefs, restaurateurs, cooks, producers and a host of food writers, journalists and social media influencers, blind taste each product
- Judging took place at the following locations:
- Guild HQ in Gillingham, Dorset, as well several other Dorset venues
- The Guild of Fine Food’s London home, No. 42 Southwark Street, SE1
- 192 awarded 3-star
- 1,207 awarded 2-star
- 3,254 awarded 1-star