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Phil Vickery Cookbook | Lilliput Lane Competition Winners | Bag Competition

A uniquely rich portrait of Britain’s best food and producers. Phil has an on-going series of short programmes on This Morning called A Taste of Britain, in which he interviews his food heroes around the country – this book is inspired by that series. With a chapter on every region of Britain, Britain: The Cookbook explores the very best foods that the country has to offer. Including sardines, cider and clotted cream from the West Country, Stilton and game from the Midlands, smoked salmon and whisky from Scotland and of course Gingerbread from Grasmere!  Phil introduces us to some of the people who catch our fish, grow our vegetables and farm our meat, and offers his own favourite 130 recipes using their produce – you should see what he has made with the Gingerbread!  Top food photographer Steve Lee travelled with Phil, and together they have created an extraordinary collection of recipes, stories and amazing photographs. Signed copies £20 We are pleased to be able to offer this book for sale via our website which have been signed by Phil on his last visit to the shop in Grasmere – seen here with Joanne Wilson. CLICK HERE TO ORDER A COPY   Joanne Wilson & Andrew Hunter

Model Customers Win Valuable Minature Grasmere Gingerbread Shops

SIX customers of the Grasmere Gingerbread Shop won limited edition hand-painted models of Church Cottage - which houses the business - in a special competition celebrating 25 years of Lilliput Lane.

For one winner, 24-year-old Shelly Jones, of Stockport, it was a case of childhood revisited when she travelled to Cumbria to collect her model. “I’ve loved going to Grasmere since I was a little girl,” she said. “Stepping into the shop is like travelling back in time and I can’t get enough of Grasmere Gingerbread - it is delicious and totally unique! I always place an order with friends if they visiting the Lake District.” Shelley won her model by correctly answering an online competition that Church Cottage used to be the village school. As well as being treated to a tour of the shop she also visited the home of Lilliput Lane - makers of the tiny cottages that have a worldwide following.

The models are likely to soar in value as they were not put up for sale to the general public.  

Isao Takeda from Japan and Gill Buxton from Tasmania also won models after the visiting the shop in the summer of 2007. They were unable to return to collect their cottages in person but sent in delightful letters and photographs of themselves with their prized possessions.

Joanne Wilson, manager of the shop, said: “We love it when people write to us and I was so pleased that they had been able to visit us last year.”

The other three winners were from the UK.