Ludlow News

Ludlow food festival ready to tickle tastebuds

9:00am Tuesday 31st August 2010

LUDLOW Food Festival has cooked up a mouth-watering line-up of attractions for foodies and families alike.

The town with a massive reputation for fine food and drink celebrates the 16th year of its festival from September 10-12, with more than 20,000 visitors from around the world expected.

Organisers are promising that the 2010 event will be bigger and better than ever and have just published the programme of attractions.

Local produce is, as ever, at the heart of the festival which showcases all manner of ‘real’ food, from rare breed meat to artisan cheeses, and a fantastic choice of real ales, ciders and perries.

A series of ‘trails’ will lead visitors round the town to taste a huge range of sausages, breads and beers and vote for their favourites.

The Castle Gardens promise to be an epicurean paradise and, of course, there are plenty of restaurants, cafes and bars where visitors can sit back and relax.

Cookery classes will be on offer with local chefs demonstrating their talents – including Michelin-starred La Bécasse head chef Will Holland, who won through to the finals of this year’s Great British Menu. And this year traders from across the UK will be battling it out for the first-ever British Street Food Awards – a prestigious prize that will test their skills cooking in small mobile kitchens.

‘Slow food’ tutored tastings are another attraction, with nearly 200 top quality small independent food and drink producers from the Marches and the border counties lined up with tempting morsels.

There will be a big top circus, cooking with kids, Caribbean music and food from the Levi Roots Experience. A host of other entertainers will be performing throughout the town helping to raise cash for the festival’s chosen charity, Self Help Africa.

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