Interactive: Food festival guide
Posted by edwina 79 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
With new events springing up every year the next few weeks are the highlight of the year for gourmets
Events preview: Port Eliot Festival, St Germans
Posted by edwina 128 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Port Eliot, Cornwall, Fri to 26 Jul, porteliotfestival.comBringing together literature, music, comedy and food, this relaxed festival retains a very indie feel yet manages to get enough big names into the mix to make it very much one to mark on the calendar. Sean Langan, Rosie Boycott and the Idler's Tom Hodgkinson are just some of the authors appearing, while music comes from King Creosote and
Event preview: Feel Good Festival, Rochdale
Posted by edwina 143 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Forming a somewhat unlikely alliance between celebrity chefs and pop music, this festival has something of the designed-by-committee feel, but that does not mean it won't make for a good day out. The Bluetones are Saturday's musical headliners, sharing the Town Hall Square stage with Wave Machines and Babel. You can refuel at the food market in The Butts, where you can also catch Aldo Zilli and A
Taste of London festival fringe
Posted by edwina 154 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
A small selection of photos from the first Word of Mouth fringe festival, at Taste of London
Some first impressions and recommendations from Taste of London ahead of the Word of Mouth fringe festival tomorrowThe team have spent the day scoping out Regent's Park ahead of tomorrow's Word of Mouth Taste of London fringe festival, where WoM readers and bloggers have selflessly volunteered to come along and tweet after this call to arms. Follow us on Twitter at #tastefringe, and if you don't
Hay festival: Digging for victory | Alastair Harper
Posted by edwina 179 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Climate change, claim 'transition town' activists, may leave us no choice but to return to growing our own foodScrumping is our future. Andrew Simms has already assured us that our energy crisis can be solved by following Cuba's example. Today he told his Hay audience that when it comes to food, the system we know is over and we should expect a move closer to the world of Piers Plowman and Enid B
Hay festival: Giles Foden, Nicholas Stern and Jay Rayner
Posted by edwina 183 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
The Guardian Hay festival site is bathed in sunshine, and for once even the spectre of climate change isn't enough to dampen the spirits: in the second of our Haycasts, Nicholas Stern explains why he refuses to be pessimistic about the planet's future. Fresh from the success of the film of The Last King of Scotland, meanwhile, Giles Foden talks to Claire Armitstead about his new novel, Turbulence
Hay festival: Author John Lewis-Stempel on a year of foraged food
Posted by edwina 184 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
In the glorious countryside surrounding Hay, John Lewis-Stempel, a local farmer and author of The Wild Life, describes the highs and lows of the year he spent living solely on a diet of foraged food - from gorging on rabbits and rosehips to a brush with death triggered by a poisonous mushroom
