FROM organic vegetables to opera – a new one day festival is set to provide a foodie paradise in Poundbury.
The Dorset Food and Arts Festival returns to Queen Mother Square in Prince Charles’s model village on Saturday August 1.
From 9am to 9pm there will be a host of food, stalls, music and demonstrations, showcasing the best food and drink Dorset has to offer.
TV chef, Lesley Waters, who has her own cookery school in the county, will be opening the event at 10am.
She will then be giving a demonstration in the Dorset Farmers Market mobile kitchen.
As well as the cookery demo, there will also be a stall or her books, DVDs and information about her cooking school.
Now in its fourth year, the festival is a partnership between Dorset Food and Drink, Dorset Farmers Markets and the Duchy of Cornwall, with support from the county’s leading food and drink businesses and the Poundbury business community.
The festival began as a celebration of Dorset artisan products and music during the Olympic Games in 2012.
The festival supports local charities and is “all about Dorset,” according to Simon Conibear, the Duchy’s Poundbury director.
The 50-plus stalls include Dorset food and drink producers, demonstrations by leading chefs and a host of music from rock to folk and opera.
Soprano Charlotte Hewitt from Shaftesbury will be returning this year, after her triumphant debut at the first festival. George- Charlotte’s brother and another talented musician, will also be performing.
The evening concert will feature Mill Street Jazz Band.
This year will also see the return of the popular chefs cook-off with James Golding, chef-director of The Pig on the Beach at Studland, Matt Budden from Highcliff Grill at Bournemouth’s Marriott Hotel and Brett Sutton, chef-proprietor of The White Post near Sherborne.
Other demonstrations will come from Mark Hartstone, chef-proprietor of La Fosse at Cranborne and charcuterie and foraging expert Lee Moreton of the Dorset Charcuterie Co.
Mr Moreton will be showing festival-goers how to butcher a whole carcase and then auction the cuts off for the festival’s principal charity, Weldmar Hospicecare Trust.
For more information visit the festival website at dorsetfestival.org
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