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THE Real Food Festival, the biggest farmers' market ever, launches at London's Earls Court on April 24 and continues until April 27.

There, 500 of not just British but some of the world's best small food and drink producers will display their wares for tastings and for sale.

The producers, picked by a selection committee chaired by Lyndon Gee, former director of Slow Food UK, are chosen for their high quality and integrity, with the smallest producers subsidised to attend.

Dorset producers making their way up to London for the event include Edeli Limited, The Richard Bramble Collection, The Seed Company, John Gerard Wines, Boasty's Best, The Dorset Blueberry Company and Fair Foods Ltd.

The festival will showcase hundreds of producers that have never been seen before at any large-scale food and drink event.

At the festival, the wine fair will feature more than 100 small producers of quality wines selected to offer their wines for tasting and to buy. Taste workshops, created by Clodagh McKenna and Sebastiano Sardo from Food Discovery, will allow the consumer to meet the producer personally and have tutored tastings on whatever he or she loves or has always wanted to try.

Barny Haughton, sustainable food guru from Bordeaux Quay, Bristol, will run a cookery school, which will teach even the simplest things like making a loaf of bread.

The chefs' theatre will showcase presentations from some of the UK's top chefs using seasonal and fresh produce to prepare regional dishes and a high profile gala launch night will be organised for Thursday evening, April 24, 2008.

For information on the Real Food Festival or to buy tickets, call 0870 912 0831 or visit the website at www.realfoodfestival.co.uk

8:22am Monday 24th March 2008

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