Swapping seems to be all the rage in Switzerland at the moment. Following on in the same vein as our recently announced SwapParty event, we have now received details on a new swapping event, this time for food.
Taking place for the first time in Lutry on 4 December, Le Food Swap has been organized with the purpose of encouraging people to eat locally, sustainably and affordably through the swapping and sharing of homemade, home grown goods. The aim is to create an outlet for home cooks, gardeners, foragers, DIY enthusiasts and bakers of all ages and nationalities to meet up and swap their homemade creations. The event will provide a unique opportunity where locals and expats, young and old can break down barriers, practice their language skills and connect through common interests.
Participants are invited to bring their own favorite homemade jams, pickles & preserves, fresh baked goods, sauces and pestos, as well as homegrown produce such as vegetables and fruit, handmade soaps, candles, teas and spices. All swap items will be directly traded between participants, e.g.an apple tart for a jar of pickles or a loaf of bread.
Are you looking forward to celebrating Thanksgiving with family and friends, but are daunted by the idea of preparing all the food that goes with it? Would you rather just put your feet up and let someone else do the cooking this year? Well you can, and you don’t have to wait for someone else to invite you to their home!
Swiss retail and wholesale bakery, Peace Foods, is offering clients an all-inclusive, food delivery service that means your entire meal – right down to the aperitifs and side dishes – can be delivered to your door, either Ready to Eat (hot out of the oven) or Ready to Heat (just heat and serve).
According to Peace Foods founder, Linda Vogel, all turkeys are natural, free range, Swiss turkeys, brined for 24 hours, and then slow-roasted to ensure they are deliciously juicy and flavorful. But if you don’t fancy turkey, you can also choose from honey-glazed gammon or Irish Angus beef instead.
A new food delivery service has recently opened in Rolle, targeting both residential and corporate inhabitants. Called Venezvite, the new online service will enable customers to order food from a curated list of restaurants, cafés and eateries, catering for a wide range of culinary tastes.
Adjowii Özdemir, Founding Partner of Venezvite, told knowitall.ch, “Venezvite was born out of a need - a hunger if you like – for a website where one could go and have at one's fingertips, an approved list of restaurants offering delivery or take-away in the Lac Léman region. One of the luxuries that residents in the region soon come to miss from their everyday life, particularly those expatriated from larger cosmopolitan areas, is a sense of "convenience" associated with food.”
She added, “Having experienced the same frustration ourselves, my co-founder, Addia Cooper-Henry, and I decided that we should create that place where people could go to find great restaurants, to order from their menus online and have their food prepared and ready for pick-up or delivery in minutes. We are a small, but growing, company with a hearty appetite for achieving and maintaining customer satisfaction.”
A new American-style burger bar, which opened in St. Cergue at the end of last year, is becoming increasingly popular as the word spreads about its attractive décor, friendly service and impressive range of American burgers.
Called Rando Burger, the new restaurant offers at least 20 different burgers, each created using fresh local produce, carefully chosen to tempt the taste buds of the most discerning burger fans. With all meat, vegetables and bread provided by local Swiss suppliers, the restaurant creates genuine American-style burgers with a uniquely Swiss taste to them!
The Rando Burger is a family-run restaurant, headed up by Gilles Dascher, and his wife, Monique. Having lived in Conneticut for two years, the couple developed a taste for American burgers and were keen to pass on this experience to others when they returned to Switzerland a few years ago.
It is well known that the expat community likes its cupcakes – so it’s no surprise that our Know-it-all passport guide started listing them in its Birthday chapter several years ago. Fairy Cakes was the first and only company to be listed in the 2007/2008 edition of the book with owner, Melanie Goodman, being the first to offer British/American style cupcakes.
However, the market for cupcakes has expanded so much since then that it seems like we’re getting recommendations for cupcake suppliers almost every month! Between them, these companies have considered just about every possible desire for the discerning cupcake fan - read on to find out more!
