This year’s Food Festival on 5th May 2012 is beginning to take shape.  We’ve already have had a number of stall holders booking their places and if you’re a producer or retailer then do contact Phil Walker at Tideswell Stores to book yours.  This years Food Festival will take place throughout the village and involve as many of the local shops and pubs as we can.

The Tideswell School of Food will be running cooking demonstration throughout the day and John Hattersley from Hattersley Wines will be running a session on wine tasting, something that is bound to be popular.

Here are more details of what’s happening this Saturday at The Tideswell Food Festival

Tea Tastings by James Pogson of Northern Tea Merchants of Chesterfield @10.30 and 11.45 in the School of Food. Taste and see the leaf teas that go to make up most blended teas

Wine Tasting at 1pm

Trevor Jones, one of our expert Chefs, will be demonstrating and sampling throughout the morning

Our new Nano-Brewery will be mashing, sparging, and boiling away.

Street Entertainment and Vegetable modelling throughout the day from local Vegetable Entertainer Madame Zucchini http://madamezucchini.co.uk/

All our local shops (including the Co-op) will be getting into the swing with a variety of extra promotions, displays and tastings, showcasing Tideswell Made products.

Start-up foody producers like Purple Pepper will be sampling products and getting reaction to their new ideas

Lots of foody and growing competitions for local children

Craig Pattison from High Peak Radio will be broadcasting from the School of Food from 7am-noon

Pumpkin seed planting and Herb Planting in the Courtyard