The Industry Provers and Shakers!

Posted on May 19, 2016May 19, 2016

Now in its fourth year, Tiptree World Bread Awards with Brook Food is seeking professional and home bakers for the 2016 competition.

Our industry judges certainly know a thing or two about judging the best loaves. On hand to taste test your bread are: George Fuller, Chairman, Craft Bakers’ Association, Hugh Weeks, Technical Consultant to the Baking Industry. Alan Clarke, Chief Executive, Scottish Bakers, Andrew Whitley, founder of The Village Bakery and Co-founder of the Real Bread Campaign and of course our Chairman, Stephen Hallam, Master Baker, and Managing Director of Dickinson & Morris.

Bread is a world food and baking it is a huge undertaking – 12 million loaves are sold every day in the UK. Along with home-baking, the phenomenon of the artisan bakery has really taken off in the last decade.

Also scrutinising your loaves will be a host of Great British Bake Off favourites – Luis Troyano, Frances Quinn, Kimberley Wilson and Martha Collison. The stellar judging panel includes stars of BBC2’s Victorian Bakers John Foster and Duncan Glendinning, as well as a host of other industry legends.

James Freeman, Victoria Bakery was our winner in 2015; his Great British White beat off competition from hundreds of loaves sent in from around the United Kingdom to take the title.

The awards close to entries on Sunday 4 September 2016 and the judging will take place in September. The winners will be announced in October at a harvest supper-style ceremony at St John’s Hyde Park, London.