TEAM Cumbria' has once again scooped a bounty of medals in the 2004 Great Taste Awards, regarded as the single most sought after seal of quality in speciality food and drink.

In place of national anthems, podiums and flag-waving crowds who are otherwise engaged in Athens at the moment, Food & Drink is delighted to offer an arena for this year's winners: Hawkshead Relish Company, Gold - Five Fruit Marmalade, Silver - Tomato Ketchup; Brown Sauce; Pink Grapefruit & Ginger Marmalade; Sticky Toffee Sauce, Bronze - Cumberland Sauce; Hawkshead Relish; Ratatouille Relish; Indian Capsicum Pickle; Pickled Damsons.

Country Fare, Mallerstang, Gold - Ginger biscuits, Bronze - Nutty Fruit Cake.

The Village Bakery, Melmerby, Gold - Organic & gluten-free Fruit Cake Slices.

The Wooden Spoon Fudge Company, Ulverston, Gold - Vanilla fudge.

Booths Supermarkets, Gold - Pork sausage, Silver - Pork & peppers sausage.

Sillfield Farm Products, Endmoor, Gold - Wild Boar air dried ham; Cumberland Speck, Silver - Italian Sicilian-style sausage, Bronze - Wild Boar Sausage.

Cranstons Butchers, Penrith, Gold - Steak & Ale Pie.

The Old Smokehouse & Truffles Chocolate, Brougham Hall, Gold - The Fellman - All Meat Sausage, Bronze - Scottish Smoked Salmon; Coconut & Lemongrass Roasted Salmon.

Jeremy's Soups, Appleby, Silver - Vichysoisse soup, Bronze - Tomato & Herb Sauce; Tomato & Garlic Sauce; Carbonara Sauce; Minestrone Soup.

Demels (Sri Lankan chutneys), Ulverston, Bronze - Date & Lime Pickle Chutney.

Coniston Country Kitchen Larder, Silver - Green Tomato Chutney, Bronze - Seville Orange Marmalade.

The Ingleton Gingerbread Company at the Oakroyd Bakery, Bronze - Luxury Yorkshire T Loaf; Shortbread.

Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding Company, Silver - Sticky Toffee Sauce, Bronze - Sticky Toffee Pudding.