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The East
Midlands Food and Drink Festival is the largest regional food
festival in the UK. This year, to enable the Festival to accommodate
an increasing number of visitors and exhibitors, it has relocated to
the historic Brooksby Hall, just off the A46 and four miles south of
Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.
Over 200
exhibitors are expected at this fabulous venue to showcase the
region's finest foods.
Attractions
for the more than 20,000 visitors expected to attend this year's
Festival include top name celebrity chefs Jean Christophe Novelli
(Sunday), Rachel Green (Saturday) and Clarissa Dickson Wright
(Saturday and Sunday), along with many other top ranking regional
chefs and demonstrations.
There will be
lots of activities for children who enter free (under 16) including a
whole area where they can see traditional foods being made and even
make some for themselves.
The main
Festival will be preceded on Thursday 4th October by a 'mini fest' -
the East Midlands Children's Food Festival. Over 500 school children
from a variety of schools will spend the day seeing how local foods
are made and trying some of the recipes for themselves.
The theme for
this year's Festival is 'Make it Local'- supporting local producers
and also about making it yourself. Visitors can see cheese being
made, bread baked, pies raised, sausages linked, pasta pressed,
chocolate tempered and a whole host of foods in the making.
For more
information, visit www.eastmidlandsfoodfestival.co.uk
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