Robert Price Kitchen Stage at the 2012 Festival
Catch some of the best local chefs in action in the non-stop programme of cookery demonstrations in the Market Hall, hosted by broadcaster Hywel James, hotelier Mike Morgan and Karen Waters.
Saturday 15 September
10.00 – 10.40am / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Shady Halim – Pizzorante, Abergavenny
The young Sous Chef at Pizzorante demonstrates the restaurant's simple and authentic italian style of cooking and shows how you can re-create it at home. Shady's previous experience in some of Londons finest italian restaurants includes working with Giorgio Locatelli.
Saturday 15 September
11.00 – 11.40am / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
James Bumpass – Head Chef, Three Salmons
The chef proprietor shows why The Three Salmons in Usk , the 300 year old coaching inn, is continuing to grow its reputation in Wales' culinary epicentre.
Saturday 15 September
12.00 noon – 12.40pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Julie Carey – Head Chef, Clarkes Restaurant, Glen-yr-Afon
Julie Carey heads up the kitchen team at Glen-yr-Afon House Hotel which enjoys an enviable reputation for the dining experience in Clarkes restaurant and for the specialist wedding service they have offered for over 30 years, gaining them the title of Best Wedding Venue in Wales at the 2011 Welsh Wedding Awards.
Saturday 15 September
1.00 – 1.40pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
James Sommerin – The Crown at Whitebrook
James Sommerin has held a Michelin star at The Crown at Whitebrook since 2007. The Good Food Guide 2012 rates The Crown as ‘world class' and best in Wales. This year James again represented Wales in Great British Menu.
Saturday 15 September
2.00 – 2.40pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
The 61p School Meals Challenge –
Jeanette Orrey and James Sommerin
61p is the ingredients budget for a two-course school dinner. Monmouthshire schoolchildren have been working with Jeanette Orrey – aka The Dinner Lady – in a competition to produce the best idea for a healthy school dinner within that budget. See what the winners have come up with. And see what Michelin-star chef James Sommerin from The Crown at Whitebrook can do for the same money.
Saturday 15 September
3.00 – 3.40pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Penny Lewis – The Culinary Cottage
Penny earned her spurs, travelling the globe cooking for dignitaries, celebrities and royalty. She runs The Culinary Cottage Cookery School which offers a variety of courses for up to six students at a time - there is no better way to learn.
Saturday 15 September
4.00 – 4.40pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Karl Cheetham – Head Chef, Gliffaes
Karl Cheetham is completely at home with the Gliffaes' commitment to local food, low food miles, seasonality and sustainable fisheries. Gliffaes Country House Hotel is the only 4-star hotel in the Brecon Beacons and was named Welsh Country Hotel of the Year in 2009.
Saturday 15 September
5.00 – 5.40pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Anand George – Purple Poppadom
The multi-award winning Chef demonstrates Nouvelle Indian Cuisine; the modern take on traditional Indian dishes that helped Purple Poppadum to the title of Welsh Curry House of the Year within months of opening.
Saturday 15 September
6.00 – 7.00pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
The Festival Debate: Do we still need the High St?
In Abergavenny, as in many other market towns, local campaigners are fighting against further incursions by the major supermarkets. At stake, they say, is the continuing viability of the High Street, the traditional heart of the town. But with the irresistible rise of the multiple retailers and internet shopping does the High Street still have a future?
Chair: Sarah Dickins – Presenter, BBC Wales
Panel: Joanna Blythman – award-winning investigative journalist
Author of Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets.Tom Herbert – fifth generation baker and co-proprietor of Hobbs House Bakery
Rob Lyons – Deputy Editor of Spiked
Author of Panic on a Plate: How Society Developed an Eating DisorderCarolyn Steel – archtitect, TED lecturer and a
Author of Hungry City: How Food Shapes our LivesChris Wade – Chief Executive of 'Action for Market Towns'
Join in the debate with a complimentary glass of the Festival beer from The Otley Brewery,
Sunday 16 September
10.00 – 10.40am / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Grow your own Pizza competition: Final
The grand finale of the Food Festival's exciting Grow your Own Pizza competition for the area's Comprehensive schools. Not only have students had to come up with a unique Welsh take on a pizza, they have also had to grow as many ingredients for it as possible. Festival favourite chef Cyrus Todiwala will crown the winner!
Sunday 16 September
11.00 – 11.40am / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Cyrus Todiwala OBE - Café Spice Namaste, London
Legendary chef Cyrus Todiwala is well known on TV and Radio and is a regular guest on Saturday Kitchen. He andhis wife Pervin are the creators of Café Spice Namaste, one of London's iconic restaurants . Check out their Café Spice pop-up at the Castle.
Sunday 16 September
12.00noon – 12.40pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Lindy Wildsmith and Franco Taruschio OBE –
The Chef's Room Fish and Cookery School, Blaenavon
Welsh Italian Fusion is one of the Blaenavon cookery school's signature courses. Chief tutors Franco and Lindy will be cooking up a selection of finger food for you to try. To include cockle fritters, oyster gratin, mushroom crostini and potato and laver bread bites.
Sunday 16 September
1.00 – 1.40pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Steve Robbins – Chef Patron, Bistro Prego, Monmouth
Steve Robbins, chef-proprietor of the Monmouth restaurant with rooms, believes firmly in letting great local produce do the talking.
Sunday 16 September
2.00 – 2.40pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Jim Hamilton – Llansantffraed Court Hotel
The luxurious Monmouthshire country house hotel has a well-established reputation for great food and great provenance which helped them to win a Wales the True Taste, Eating Out Silver Award in 2011.
Sunday 16 September
3.00 – 3.40pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Deri Reed – The Ethical Chef
Deri Reed's mission is to cook great –tasting vegetarian food that is good to eat and good for the environment. He has cooked at Café Paradiso and Demuths before returning to Wales where he runs supper clubs and has a stall at Cardiff's Riverside Market.
Sunday 16 September
4.00 – 4.40pm / Robert Price Stage, Market Hall
Mattthew Dawkins – The Star Inn at Llansoy
Local talent Mathew Dawkins trained at Crosskeys College and represented Monmouthshire on ITV's Taste the Nation. His ambition as a young Head Chef is to achieve a first rosette and put The Star back on the map as the place to eat in South Wales.
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