“The Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival is all about celebrating the quality and diversity of food we have in this beautiful coastal region of East Suffolk. Marks & Spencer, with their commitment to food quality, is a perfect partner for us”, commented Alesha Gooderham, co-organiser of the Festival and the Snape Maltings site. “With support from M&S and also from Adnams, East Suffolk’s very own coastal brewery, who are sponsoring us again for the third year running, we are set to make this year’s Festival bigger and better than ever”.
From Friday 19th September there will be a wide range of activities and events taking place throughout the region from Southwold to Woodbridge culminating in a two day extravaganza at Snape Maltings on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th September.
At this two day event, over 70 local producers will offer tastings and showcase their products, there will be cookery demonstrations from some of the UK’s top celebrity chefs, children’s corners, workshops, discussion forums, boat trips and RSPB-guided walks.
Celebrity chefs Tom Aikens of Tom Aikens, London, Fergus Henderson of St John, London, and Mark Hix, formerly of The Ivy and now of Hix Oyster & Chop House will be there to demonstrate cooking with Suffolk’s finest foods alongside Matthew Fort and Tom Parker Bowles of ITV’s Market Kitchen, and Rose Prince of the Daily Telegraph. Sheila Dillon, Radio 4’s well known Food Programme presenter, will chair a discussion forum ‘Are supermarkets friend or foe to local food?’. There will be a workshop for 20 people with Fergus Henderson and a menu planning workshop with Suffolk’s very own celebrity chef Ruth Watson of The Crown & Castle, Orford and Channel 4’s Hotel Inspector.
The Festival is designed to bring together producers, farmers, food experts, chefs, and the public. The weekend marquees will be a showcase for produce from East Suffolk offering an extraordinary selection of fresh fish, succulent local meats, delicious dairy products, amazing breads, cakes and pies, hearty vegetables, freshly-made fruit juices, jams and chutneys, quality beers and wines and presented by food experts passionate about Suffolk’s local produce.
Entrance to the weekend’s events is £5 per person (under 13s go free) to include free parking, a cotton shopping bag and Festival programme.
Throughout the 10 days of the Festival, local restaurants, pubs and hotels are running special menus, local farms are offering guided walks and visitors can learn how to spot mushrooms, make a terrine, bake bread, join in a venison butchery class, or set off on a food safari.
For further information on all the events taking place throughout the whole 10 days, please visit www.aldeburghfoodanddrink.co.uk and click on Timetables.
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