Backing the Bacon! - Celebrity Chefs and Hundreds of Restaurants are Putting British Bacon on the Menu for Save Our Bacon National Restaurant Week

LONDON, April 25/PRNewswire/ -- UK Restaurants join forces to mark Save Our Bacon National Restaurant
Week (Monday 28th April-Sunday 4th May). From top London venues such as The
Ivy and St John, to country pubs and caf=E9s, hundreds of chefs will be putting
special British pork dishes on menus.

Waitrose Food Illustrated magazine's Save Our Bacon campaign highlights
the problems facing British pig farmers, who currently lose GBP26 on every
pig sold.

"We've all got to take responsibility for the great British pig," says
chef Fergus Henderson. Fergus is putting a Gloucester Old Spot bacon sandwich
on the menu at St John.

Celebrity chefs backing Save Our Bacon National Restaurant Week include
Michelin-starred chefs Tom Aikens, Heston Blumenthal, Raymond Blanc, Angela
Hartnett.

Heston Blumenthal says: "It's vital that we as restaurateurs unite behind
British pig farmers at this difficult time. It is people like us that can
make a difference."

William Sitwell, editor of Waitrose Food Illustrated, "The amazing number
of restaurants taking part in the Save Our Bacon National Restaurant Week
shows the extraordinary depth of feeling that chefs and restaurant owners
have about the plight of British pig farmers. This is the moment that really
matters in this campaign: British restaurants are telling diners 'Put British
pork on your fork!' "

A full list of participating restaurants will be available at
http://www.waitrose.com/saveourbacon

Source: Waitrose Food Illustrated

Interviews, quotes from celebrity chefs and full list of participating restaurants and dishes, contact Matt Forbes-Dale +44-(0)20-7731-6005 E: matt@frontrowcom.co.uk

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