Food And Drink Celebrity Line Up Announced For This Year's Dartmouth Food Festival (25th - 27th October 2013)



Plans are hotting up for the foodies' festival of choice, Dartmouth Food Festival (Friday 25th - Sunday 27th October).  Lots of high profile food and drink celebrities have now confirmed their involvement, which is certain to make this year's festival the best yet.  

The esteemed award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster Jay Rayner will be making an appearance.  Jay, a regular on BBC's 'The One Show' and a renowned restaurant critic for both The Observer and The Guardian, will take you on a journey through the world's edible landscape with his 'A Greedy Man In a Hungry World' talk on Friday 25th October in The Flavel (7.30 - 8.30pm; tickets cost £16 each).  

To whet your appetite further, celebrity chefs guaranteed to enthuse crowds include Dartmouth favourite Mitch Tonks.  Fish chef extraordinaire, seafood champion and award-winning food writer, Mitch, will be thrilling audiences during his much awaited 'Seafood Lunch with Mitch Tonks & Friends'. Former Riverford Field Kitchen head chef, award-winning cookery book writer and the lady behind the innovative Baxters Movable Feasts, Jane Baxter, will be hosting a 'A Taste of Italy', which is assured to set the audience's taste buds tingling.  French chef and baker Richard Bertinet will be motivating all to join the hugely popular bread making movement of the moment, along with chairman and co-owner of Manna from Devon Cooking School, David Jones.

If drinks are more your thing, you'll be excited to learn regular wine expert on BBC1's 'Saturday Kitchen', wine columnist for the Sunday Telegraph's 'Stella' magazine and drinks editor for Delicious magazine, Susy Atkins, is spearheading the drinks' programme.  Susy will be running an exceptional array of wine tastings and seminars across all three festival days.  Joining Susy, the festival has a fantastic line up of distinguished drinks' experts and enthusiasts, including The Guardian's highly respected wine writer Fiona Beckett, master of wine Liam Steevenson from Red & White wines and the ever passionate Tim McLaughlin-Green, Mitch Tonks' sommelier.  All of which will be wowing audiences with their incredible knowledge of the world of wine.

There will be over a hundred local producers, as well as a few from further afield, showcasing their products including South Devon Chilli Farm, Sharpham Estate, Dartmouth Ice Cream Company, Georgie Porgie's Puddings, Filberts Fine Foods and Ashridge Cider to name just a few.

On Thursday 24th October, in the lead up to the main festival, there will be the ever popular children's day, which will include a fun series of workshops on sausage making, composting, keeping chickens and making fruit juice.  This will be followed on the Thursday evening with the official launch evening, the 'Festival Feast', again in The Flavel.

Commenting on the forthcoming festival, David Jones, chairman of Dartmouth Food Festival says: "We're determined to make this year's festival even more exciting with more events and demonstrations than previously.  Put the 25th - 27th October in your diary for a highly memorable and utterly delicious weekend."

This is the eleventh year of the Dartmouth Food Festival, which started from small beginnings in 2002 and has just kept on growing and is now one of the country's most talked about food festivals.  Sponsors of this year's festival include Coast & Country Cottages, Dartmouth Holiday Homes, Manna from Devon Cooking School, Corinium Care, Jelf Financial Advisors, The Mob Film Company, Southwestern Distillery, Bridgetown Brewery, Café Alf Fresco, Dart Marina, Royal Castle Hotel, RGC Building Supplies, Browns Hotel and RockFish.

Food magazine is the official media partner.


With its free admission it's a great day out for everyone, whether local to Dartmouth or visiting the region.  There will, however, be a range of ticketed events on sale.  For information on tickets and timings contact Val Bird on Tel: 0777 178 1242 or email info@dartmouthfoodfestival.com and keep an eye out on www.dartmouthfoodfestival.com for regular updates, 'like' the Dartmouth Food Festival on Facebook and follow @DartFoodFest on Twitter.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A recipe for perfect Yorkshire pudding

Image
A lot is spoken about Yorkshire pudding but is in not such a very difficult thing to do. All it is, is a batter mix that is put in a mould with some oil so that it soufflés up as it bakes. As long as you follow a few simple rules then you should have a perfect pudding every time. To make the batter you will need. 125g/8oz plain flour 300ml/¾ pint milk 2 eggs Pinch of salt Some vegetable oil. Now a lot of propel say that you need a strong bread flour to make a god batter for Yorkshire puddings but I have found that over time it does not really matter. But if you are going to use a strong flour let it rest for a little longer to allow the glutens to start working and get soaked up in the liquid . Take you flour and sift it in to a bowel to make sure that you do not get any lumps. Then make a well in the middle and crack your eggs in to that. Now taking a whisk start to work the eggs in to the flour. It will start to from a thick paste. If you think that it is getting to hard to work then
Read more

The Era Of Ultra-Premium Sipping Vodka - Discover The Ultimate Luxury Of British Made Quintessentially Vodka

Image
The era of ultra-premium vodka has dawned. Quintessentially Vodka redefines luxury spirits with sleek design and a liquid of such discerning quality that is quite simply perfection on ice. The exclusive British made ultra-premium vodka with its emblematic black matte bottle - already an essential in the most elite bars, awarded restaurants and private member clubs in the UK - launched into Harvey Nichols in April 2013. Quintessentially Vodka is produced in one of Britain's oldest continuous working distilleries, where each bottle is individually handled by distillery fellows wearing white cotton gloves to protect the beautiful bottle. The Vodka is crafted from the finest organic wheat and purest English water (filtered through ancient pebble beds). These artisanal practices culminate in the smoothest, purest liquid to sip, savour and enjoy. Unparalleled luxury, ultra-premium credentials, British heritage and superior quality make Quintessentially Vodka the most
Read more

The Lakes Distillery- Sealing Deals With Drams

Image
There are not many opportunities to own a piece of history. For whisky enthusiasts, a new distillery is a rare opportunity, and to own a sample of one of the first distilling's even rarer. Within the business world, staying at the front of a client's mind is vital. Corporate gifting has become a modern day courtship, offering businesses the chance to impress and show clients, business partners and employees they are appreciated in a genuine and thoughtful way. With this in mind, Lakes Distillery is offering a 'once-in-a-lifetime' gift, ideal for those who wish to astound. A dram of the finest single malt whisky is the ideal way to seal the deal. Now imagine the dram was poured from your very own branded cask containing one of the first distillings from England's largest whisky distillery, a gift from a loyal customer or supplier. A very select group of just 60 whisky enthusiasts in the world have the unique opportunity to write their name in hist
Read more