llandysul food festival 2011

Saturday 25 June 2011 in Llandysul Park, 11am

The Llandysul Food Festival will take place on Saturday 25th June in Llandysul Park near the banks of the River Teifi.

Local food producers and craft stalls.

Best Food Stall Competition, sponsored by Food Centre Wales.

Local school competitions.

The fun of cooking by Rev Eric Roberts and Rev Kevin Davies.

Bring your family recipes and remedies to be recorded by Culturenet Cymru for future generations.

Sara Wentworth from Arts 4 Wellbeing will be creating art with food - just add children for some great fun!

Dancing, live music, children’s games and entertainment, introduction to fly fishing and much more.

Wales True Taste: Food Champion Simon Wright is our President for the day and will open the Festival at 11am.

Simon is opening a new restaurant Sosban on the Llanelli Waterfront later this year and he was a partner in the award winning restuarant Y Polyn, at Nantgaredig.

He is a food writer ("The Wright Taste: Recipes and Other Stories") and he is a broadcaster (BBC Cymru Wales "The Wright Taste).

For more information about Simon, see his website www.thewrighttaste.co.uk

Lisa Fearn will be in the marquee demonstrating her cookery skills thoughout the day.

Lisa runs The Pumpkin Patch at her home near Whitemill, Carmarthen.
The Pumpkin Patch is a kitchen and garden school that links the growing and cooking
of our food, bringing a real understanding of where the food comes from and what we can do with it.
You can regularly see Lisa on S4C's Wedi 3 programme bursting with ideas on tips on what to cook. She has also appeared on other radio and television programmes

To read more about Lisa click here and here.

Assisting Lisa with one of her demonstrations will be Hazel Thomas.

Hazel trained as a chef at Westminster College, Vincent Square, London from 1974-1977. On leaving college she joined the kitchen brigade at the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane in London, working for Anton Mosimann, whom she claims greatly influenced her thinking on food. Her interest in food however stems from her background as a child growing up on a farm in West Wales where she discovered first hand the process by which food journeys from field to fork. Hazel was one of the six cooks to represent Wales for the Welsh Assembly Government at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival where she shared the history and traditions of Welsh food with the audiences in Washington.