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Hampshire Food Festival
This year's Hampshire Food Festival will run from July 1st-31st with 120 different events held across the county in celebration of Hampshire's finest food and drink.
Chef Gordon Ramsay has given his support to this year's Hampshire Food Festival in July by writing the foreword to the Festival programme.
Gordon says: "Hampshire appeals to me so much that I bought a home here last year. I've met with local farmers and producers who are so passionate in their work and the food they produce.
Do make sure that you take part in The Hampshire Food Festival this year. With so much going on, it is a fascinating insight into the range of wonderful food produced, grown and reared across the county".
Hampshire Food Festival events include a water buffalo walk and New Forest deer safari, bread-making, chocolate and jam-making master-classes, tours around a mushroom farm, herb nursery, kitchen gardens, apple orchard and a vegetable crisps factory, Hampshire cider celebrations and beer festivals, a New Forest treasure hunt and local cheese supper, farm walks and tractor-trailer tours, cider and apple juice making demos, heritage events and educational workshops. As this year's Festival celebrates The Year of Food and Farming, there will be plenty of fun for children to explore farms, meet farm animals, get hands-on and taste local food. The Festival also incorporates The New Forest & Hampshire Show and Alton Agricultural Show.
Hampshire based vegetarian food writer Rose Elliot will be cooking an Asian Sensation' at Gosport Discovery Centre, Ainsley Harriott will be giving cookery demonstrations at Festival Place in Basingstoke, supported by local produce stalls, and Prue Leith will be a guest at Chewton Glen's Hampshire gourmet dinner.
Hampshire chefs will be showing how to cook dinner party desserts and barbecue dishes, and local producers will be cooking quick and easy recipes at Hampshire Farmers' Market Taster Days. Many restaurants, hotels and pubs will be serving Hampshire menus and celebration dinners.
Hampshire Food Festival visitors can enter an online prize draw at www.hampshirefare.co.uk to win a luxury two night break at Lainston House Hotel near Winchester, which is renowned for their use of local produce.
To request a free Hampshire Food Festival programme or for details of all Hampshire Food Festival events (published late May), visit www.hampshirefare.co.uk or send your name and address with stamps to the value of 56p to Hampshire Fare Ltd, c/o EDO, Hampshire County Council, The Castle, Winchester SO23 8UJ.
3:02pm Monday 21st April 2008
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