Real Food Festival launches in April
From the 24th - 27th April, Earl’s Court will be hosting the first Real Food Festival. The festival will feature over 500 food and drink producers, along with the largest farmers market in the UK. Visitors can sip their way through over 100 wines at the festival’s Wine Fair, try their hand at cookery classes and join in food debates that have been organized over the 4-day period.
The small producer reigns supreme at this new food festival, giving visitors the chance to meet some of the best and smallest producers in the world and try out their food and drink produce. As well as meeting producers, visitors will also be able to learn how to bake bread with food
guru Barny Haughton of Bristol’s renowned Bordeaux Quay, taste wines with the maker,
take part in food debates, attend taste workshops, meet some pigs, follow a produce trail or just laze around on a hay bale and listen to a farmers story.
The Festival’s Taste workshops will give visitors the opportunity to find out all sorts of things, from the differences between cows and goats milk to wheat and malt beers. The workshops provide the ultimate test for foodies’ taste buds, created by eco-gastronomes Clodagh McKenna and Sebastiano Sardo of Foodiscovery.
The Real Food Festival is not just a London event. The festival organisers have just returned from a gastronomic road trip around the country where we have been meeting local producers, from Jersey to Orkney. Festival-goers will be able to meet the people who reared the pigs, planted the carrots, milked the cows and crushed the grapes.
Eco Icons such as Zac Goldsmith, are fully supporting the festival. “The way we eat, what we eat, where our food comes from, these are central issues, “ says Zac. “The Real Food Festival will change the way we think about food and give producers and consumers an opportunity to meet and share their passion for authentic quality produce.”
The Real Food Festival takes place at Earls Court 1, from the 24th – 27th April 2008. For more information, visit: http://www.realfoodfestival.co.uk/
