The Cornwall Food & Drink Festival

Cornwall, home to a mighty foodie trio: clotted cream, pasties, and Risk Stein, will be hosting its annual food festival again this September. The Cornwall Food & Drink Festival will be taking place from the 24th - 26th of September 2010, and will be showing visitors that there is more to Cornish cuisine than cream, pasties and Stein.

Other Cornish foodie favourites that will be on show at the festival include The Cornish Duck Company, Callestick Farm and Cornish Orchards. There will also be small, artisan producers like adventurous chocolatier Nicky Grant, a Cornish-produced cold pressed rape seed oil from Simply Oil, Stingers nettle ale from forager Foodswild, and endlessly trendy Cornish Cupcakes.

They haven’t forgotten about the kids either. The Cornwall Food & Drink Festival will be teaming up with Rodda’s Fresh Cornish milk, and teaching children about how to milk a cow, and how to make milkshakes and churn butter! And they haven’t forgotten about the thirsty visitors either, as St Austell’s Brewery will be serving a range of their award winning ales at their fully licensed bar.

The festivities will all be kicking off with a banquet prepared by the so called “Magnificent Seven” – a group of chefs including Rick Stein’s executive chef, David Sharland and the Michelin starred Nathan Outlaw. The Magnificent Seven will be cooking up a five course feast from Cornish products, showing how versatile and rich the fare is.

The festival is free to enter, but there will be food and drink available to buy. For more information visit The Cornwall Food & Drink Festival’s website.

Written by: Emily Boyd