Festival weekend: 17-18 September 2011
Talks - Sunday 18 September
Saturday 17 September Sunday 18 September
Tickets are no longer available to purchase online. You can still purchase tickets for the events below through the Borough Theatre on 01873 850805. Tickets will be held for collection at the Borough Theatre.
11.00 – 12.00 noon
Angel Hotel Wedgewood Room
What Makes a Great Flavour Combination? –
Niki Segnit
This was the question that confronted Niki Segnit when writing The Flavour Thesaurus, the first book to examine what flavours work well together. In this talk she gives us some answers, sharing fascinating facts about both classic and unfamiliar matches, with some illustrative tastings along the way. Nigel Slater's Book of the Year 2010.
Festival Blogger, Bex Hobson met with Niki Segnit to get the full low-down on The Flavour Thesaurus. Read her post here
Tickets: £6.00
Sponsored by: Llancayo House
www.llancayohouse.com
12.30 – 1.30pm
Angel Hotel Wedgewood Room
Meat: A Benign Extravagance – Simon Fairlie
We all know we eat too much of it. Some people think we should eat none at all. Simon Fairlie is a writer, small-holder and contributing editor to The Land and Permaculture magazines. His new book is a cogent refutation of vegetarianism and veganism and argues instead for the place of pasture-farming and the sensible use of animal wastes in any sustainable future. Meat: A Benign Extravagance is a "masterpiece: original, challenging and brilliantly argued." – George Monbiot
Tickets: £6.00
Sponsored by: Trealy Farm
www.trealy.co.uk
2.00 – 3.00pm
Angel Hotel Wedgewood Room
Surreal Ale –
Paul Ewen, Ian Marchant and Pete Brown
A comic meditation on beer, boozers and Brits with three writers who think about little else. Kiwi Paul Ewen is author of the fictional London Pub Reviews and founder of the Campaign for Surreal Ale. Writer and performer Ian Marchant crawled from the Scillies to the Shetlands in search of the perfect pub - as recorded in The Longest Crawl. Beer-writer of The Year Pete Brown took a barrel of beer from Burton to Bangalore. Literally. It's all there in Hops and Glory.
Tickets: £6.00
Sponsored by: J Straker Chadwick & Sons
www.strakerchadwick.co.uk
3.30 – 4.30pm
Angel Hotel Wedgewood Room
The Truffleman – Bruno Giorgi
Enter the secretive world of the professional truffleman. Bruno Giorgi is a leading international truffle dealer, numbering Gordon Ramsay and Pierre Gagnaire among his illustrious clients. He masterminds the annual charity auction of Alba white truffles where a single truffle has topped £60,000. Bruno will give you the low-down on everything to do with truffles. Well not quite everything...
Tickets: £6.00
Sponsored by: Lloyds Bank, Abergavenny
Saturday 17 September Sunday 18 September
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