THE 10th
ABERGAVENNY FOOD FESTIVAL
GŴYL FWD Y FENNI
Sat 20 - Sun 21 September / Medi 2008

ten years 1998 - 2008

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DAIRY AT A GLANCE

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KEY

Venue
AC: Abergavenny Castle
AHB: Angel Hotel Ballroom
AHW: Angel Hotel Wedgewood Room
ATIC: Abergavenny Tourist Information Centre
BT: Borough Theatre
CWS: Cheese & Wine Show
MH: Market Hall
SMC: St Michael’s Centre
TH: Trinity Hall

Event
CD: Chef Dem
F: Foray
FI: Fishing
MC: Masterclass
T: Talk
SFA: Sacla’ Food Academy*
TT: Tutored Tasting

* Italics = Children’s Events (please note: some of these events are ‘drop-in’ and run for several hours – check main programme entry for full details)

 

SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER

10.30am AC SFA Best Sausage Maker in Monmouthshire Competition
11.00am AHB MC Cooking the Book - Matt Tebbutt & Tom Parker Bowles
  SMC MC Energy Savers – Richard Ehrlich & Jennipher Marshall-Jenkinson
  CWS TT Introduction to Wine Tasting – The Wine & Spirit Education Trust
  TH TT Preserving the Seasons – Pam Corbin
  BT T The Forager – Yun Hider
  MH CD The Chart House – Mark Peters
  AC SFA Go Dotty about Dough - Simon Michaels
  AC SFA Go Utterly Buttery -
Usk Rural Life Museum
12.00pm MH CD Glen-Yr-Afon -
Clarke’s Restaurant
  AC SFA Muffin Magic – Jeanette Orrey
  AHW T Eat your Greens – Charlotte Hume and Freddie
1.00pm SMC MC Bord’Eaux – Ollie Couillaud
  AHB TT Tasting Wallop – Alex James & Juliet Harbutt
  CWS TT Wines of Tuscany – wines from Zonin - hosted by Massimo Rotoloni
  TH TT The Miller’s Tale – Matt Scott
  MH CD All Things Fishy - Iain Sampson & Nick Henry
1.30pm AC SFA Judging of the ‘Best Sausage Maker in
Monmouthshire 2008’ competition
  AC SFA The Story of Yoghurt - Rachel’s Organic
2.00pm BT T Culinary Travels in China – Fuschia Dunlop &
Tom Parker Bowles
  AHW T The Happy (& unhappy) Chicken & The Good Egg
Hattie Ellis
  MH CD The Culinary Cottage – Penny Lewis
2.30pm AC SFA Stirrin’ Stuff - Fiona Bird
3.00pm AHB MC Leon-Style - Allegra McEvedy & Henry Dimbleby
  SMC MC Bordeaux Quay – Barny Haughton
  CWS TT Unpasteurised Traditional Somerset Cheeses
  TH TT The Oil Merchant – Charles Carey
3.00pm MH CD Finals of the CIEH Primary Schools Cookery
Competition
  AC SFA Crazy about Cheese – Melfyn Thomas
3.30pm AHW T The Allotment Doctor – Terry Walton & Hywel James
  AC SFA Sugar & Spice & all things Nice – Jane Lewis
4.00pm MH CD 1861 – Simon King
5.00pm AHB MC The Old Master – Shaun Hill
  SMC MC Cooking with Wild Food – Mark Hix & Yun Hider
  CWS TT The Whisky Evangelist – Eddie Ludlow
  TH TT The Perfect Martini – Richard Ehrlich
  BT T The End of the Road for Cheap Food?
Observer Food Monthly Debate
5.00pm AHW T Food in Pictures – Gillian Riley
All day AC SFA Fruit and Veg Tent - Abergavenny Young Firefighters

 

 

SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER

8.30am AC FI Go Fishing - Phil Starmore & Friends
9.45am ATIC F Field Trip - Forager Yun Hider
  ATIC F Mushroom Foray - Sheila Spence
10.30am AC SFA From Field to Flour - Matt Scott, Bacheldre
Watermill
11.00am AHB MC Not Bad for a Taff – Bryan Webb
  SMC MC A Taste of Puglia – Mino Maggi & Christine Smallwood
  CWS TT ChÂteau GrÈs Saint-Paul – Wine tasting with Phillipe
Salasc
  TH TT Rare Teas – Henrietta Lovell
  BT T Good Grannies – Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
  AHW T The Riverford Story – Guy Watson
  MH CD Microwave Magic – Jennipher Marshall-Jenkinson
  AC SFA Pizza Making – Laura Santin, Santini Restaurant
  AC SFA Go Utterly Buttery – The Usk Rural Life
Museum
11.45am AC SFA Food Festival Challenge between
Monmouthshire’s Youth Centres
12.00pm MH CD The Crown at Whitebrook - James Sommerin
12.30pm BT T From Spaghetti Trees to Slow Food – The Italian
Dream
  AHW T The Ever-Green Revolution – can we feed the world in the 21st Century?
  AC SFA Muffin Magic – Jeanette Orrey
1.00pm AHB MC Fish-In - Mark Hix & Mitch Tonks
  SMC MC What to Eat Now – Valentine Warner
  CWS TT The Whisky Evangelist – Eddie Ludlow
  TH TT Sensational Sea Salt – David & Alison Lea-Wilson
  MH CD Allt-yr-Ynys - Valentin Mitriciou
1.30pm AC SFA The Story of Yogurt – Rachel’s Organic
1.45pm AC SFA Perk up with Pesto & Pasta – Laura Santin & Gillian Riley
2.00pm AHW T The Road to Vindaloo – David Burnett & Tom Jaine
  MH CD Bistro Prego - Steve Robbins
  AC SFA Sugar & Spice & All Things Nice! – with Jane Lewis
3.00pm AHB MC Star of india – Cyrus Todiwala
  SMC MC Casa Mia – Jonray & Peter Iglesias with Charlie Hicks
  CWS TT Introduction to Wine Tasting – The Wine & Spirit
Education Trust
  TH TT The Oil Merchant – Charles Carey
  MH CD Three Salmons - Nick Seward and Kingfisher Fisheries (Brixham) Ltd
  AC SFA Crazy About Cheese – Melfyn Thomas
3.15pm AC SFA Stirrin’ Stuff – Fiona Bird
3.30pm AHW T Tackling the Food Crisis in Africa – Chris Wardle
3.30pm BT T Don’t Teach Granny to Suck Eggs
4.00pm MH CD The Crown at Pantygelli - Gary Nugent
All day AC SFA Fruit & Veg Tent – Monmouthshire Scouts

 

 

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