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...She is a co-founder of the Black General Counsel 2025 initiative, which aims to identify, help and promote black lawyers who are qualified to become GCs at large companies....
...As a control, I placed one such pastry from my high street into this selection of 11 supermarket offerings. Unsurprisingly, it easily won our blind tasting....
...But let’s not get all po-faced: I’m not averse to the odd convenience product and most supermarkets now sell mature cheddar slices....
...So our top four are all well worth buying: two widely available from supermarkets and two from specialist suppliers. And we’re throwing in an indulgent brandy butter as a seasonal bonus....
...The problems we discovered can be traced to the need for longer life products on the shelves of supermarkets....
...We also tasted crisps from supermarkets and one or two larger manufacturers. All the samples were acceptable but we had our reservations about a couple....
...It was, perhaps, a sign of the times that Aldi (28 per cent, “actual aftertaste of cocoa” – IMM) beat some of the bigger supermarket groups....
...And now to our top cola, which is a supermarket own-label product....
...Unsurprisingly, the supermarket economy ranges did not do so well. Neither did the milk chocolate digestives, where the quality was disappointing compared to the dark....
...To these we can now add the outbreak of vivid green soups in supermarkets....
...(GC). …………………………………………………………….. The winner The Ginger Pig www.thegingerpig.co.uk, 01751 460091, £4.25 for 250g....
...First, some brickbats for a couple of supermarkets. Essential Waitrose Mayonnaise had a slightly dead, stale sort of taste that bemused us: “cloying” (IE); “sickly” (BS)....
...We tasted 15 from supermarkets, large European manufacturers and boutique dairies....
...We tasted 10 smoothies from food manufacturers, supermarkets and sandwich chains....
...A word about the “cloudy lemonades” sent to us by four supermarkets. Our tasting notes have such phrases as “bland”, “sickly sweet” and “synthetic”....
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...Supermarkets and delis all now offer this classic Ligurian sauce. We’ve been tasting them and it’s not a pretty story. But first, the panel....
...Our winner, though, comes from a supermarket at half the price of the Goldstein’s – Morrisons’ Spey Valley Scottish Smoked Salmon....
...This substantial pie, available in supermarkets and delis, went down well: “good, crisp pastry” (GC); “large, well-jellied, good texture – a man’s pie”(HB); “nice pastry but meat should be chunkier” (DL)...
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