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Have you come across the Ginger Pig Meat Book yet? In our new catalogue, we feature this King of Recipe books alongside our new Juice Collection Carving Tray, a great gift combo for chefs and meat-lovers. This hearty tome, created by the highly celebrated meat producers of Yorkshire, Tim Wilson and Fran Warde, has won [...]

I was thrilled to go to the London launch of East African safari company Gilroy & Camm last night. This is a safari company with a difference…instead of planning your trip with a sweet – but let’s face it, slightly useless – sales person in the UK, you get access [...]

We love festivals at Handpicked, and with the traditional likelihood of rain on the horizon for Glastonbury this weekend, we thought we’d share which other Great British Festivals we’re looking forward to and what we’d take from Handpicked…
The Ongoing Old Timers
Glastonbury Arguably the biggest, and some would say the best, Glasto is set [...]

There’s something wondrously fickle about us Brits. A month ago we were mentally packing our bags, desperate to escape across the pond to, quite frankly, anywhere with so much as a suggestion of Vitamin D. Oh the difference a sunny weekend makes! Now we’re coming out in our droves for picnics in our glorious countryside, [...]

The sun is shining!!! We’re all in such good spirits here at The Handpicked Collection HQ, we’ve been thinking of the best ways to make the most of all of this beautiful weather. We’ve checked the Met Office website and it looks like the sunshine is pretty much UK-wide, so hopefully we won’t catch too [...]

Did you watch the first part of the final on Saturday night (or on one of the endless repeats)? Of course you did! You might have noticed Rhianna looking pretty slinky duetting with Matt. We were very taken with her look, which included some rather fetching bangles that were strangely familiar. Much [...]

‘Welcome to the fashion democracy.’
We like this idea, we like it a lot. Sort of how Etsy is a great place to source lovely one-off things knick-knacks, we’re glad that a big company like Asos has decided to launch this platform in a similar light for fashion. Anyone can buy or sell. Whether you [...]

American artist Christian Faur has taken photographs from The Great Depression and recreated with rows and rows of carefully selected wax crayons. The result is a sepia tone, highly pixalated image.

Established and world renowned cycle gear brand Rapha have teamed up with Paul Smith to create a range of highly practical cycling equipment. Combining those signature stripes with well constructed garments means cycling in style. And that doesn’t happen very often.

Luckily (for me) you don’t have to be a cyclist to pull off the bag [...]

After sitting on my second pair of Ray-Bans, I vowed never to buy expensive sunglasses again. So far, I have resisted and have done well at buying £5 glasses (and sitting on those too). That is until yesterday when I discovered The Vintage Frames Company and their new online shop.
These are a few of the [...]