The latest Tetbury Food and Drink Festival updates

It is unlikely that the Tetbury Food and Drink Festival will run this year.  This Festival has been organised these past years by a very small handful of organisers on top of our "day jobs" and since a couple of our group have had to leave (one just had a baby and another moved abroad) - the rest of us feel the need to rest, recuperate and generally reorganise - rather than go at matters half baked and risk letting people down.

However - do keep an eye on this page,  just in case we get sufficient support to put on a good show.

We are sorry for any disappointment this announcement may cause and thank everyone who has given us such support and encouragement over the years.

Very best

The Committee for
Tetbury Food and Drink Festival

Thats it for 2015

Well that's it for another year - thankyou to all that took part and we trust everyone had a good time

Maybe see you again next year - watch this space

Very best from

The Organisers

Glos Old Spot Sausage Appreciation Dinner at Close Hotel

Gloucestershire Old Spot Sausage Appreciation Society Dinner at Close Hotel Wednesday 16th September 2015 7 for 7.30pm  Guest Speaker : Peter Wyton – Resident Poet with Cotswold Life Magazine   Pea & ham soup, pea & mint crostini Local smoked salmon mousse, caper salad, toast Ham hock terrine, red onion jam, warm beer bread -o-O-o-   Trio of old spot sausages, herb mash, leeks, mushroom gravy Grilled Cornish hake, braised lentils, courgette fries, green salsa Aubergine, pine nut & raisin risotto, pickled samphire -o-O-o-   Blueberry parfait, raspberry sorbet, ginger bread Bitter chocolate mousse, damson puree, orange meringue Selection of British cheese, grapes, celery, fig, fruit & nut toasts -o-O-o-   £25.00 per person Telephone: 01666 502272 to reserve your place

SEP 15

Tuesday, 7.30pm - 10pm QUIZ NIGHT! 'Condiments of the Chef' The Quiz returns after its summer break with a culinary theme 'Condiments of the Chef' marking the start of the Tetbury Food and Drink Festival. There'll be some special guest rounds from our local suppliers which we're sure will be as tasty as they are taxing, along with the regular favourites of Topical, Picture, Music and the legendary Make & Do round! Teams of up to 6 people, book your place on 01666 500021 to avoid missing out!

 

Here we go again...................

So we are making plans for 2015 and am delighted to report that our Media Partner this year will again by Cotswold Life.

We have a number of exciting "happenings" and can report already that our Guest of Honour at The Gloucester Old Spot Sausage Appreciation Society will be Cotswold Life's very own Poet - Mr Peter Wyton who is working hard on some fun recitations !!

 

More information will be posted over the coming months so do check back for the latest news and views.  You can also follow us on Twitter

All over for 2014

Well Festival 2014 went well - we all had a great deal of fun and very great thank you to all who took part - do check back for information on 2015 but in the meantime click on the link below for some great coverage of this year.

https://vimeo.com/106766402

 

Very best from

The Organisers of

Tetbury Food and Drink Festival

Vegetarian Evening at Cafe 53 in association with Pink Cab

The Pink Cab and Café 53

in association with  

Tetbury Food & Drink Festival 2014

‘V’ dining night Thursday 18th September

7 for 7.30pm

£20 per person

 

* to start  

pea & mint soup vg

or

creamy hummus & crudités v

 

*main

shepherdess pie with ‘buttered’ green beans vg

or

stacked veggie burger with chips & shredded slaw v

 

*dessert  

gooseberry fool vg

Or

ginger pudding with toffee sauce v

 

Join us and see just how Café 53 has grown  

vg denotes vegan & v denotes vegetarian

 

PLEASE book directly via the pink cab on 079 6003 6003

*dishes subject to change according to ingredient availability

Latest News from Authentic Adventures - 2015 Holidays

Highlights in 2015 include….

Puglia, Southern Italy

Authentic Puglian cooking set in an elegant, rural converted masseria (farmhouse)  – total immersion in the food and culture of this unspoilt region of Italy. Plenty of hands on cooking, make orecchiette ‘ear shaped’ pasta regional to Puglia. Learn how to taste olive oil ‘the Italian way’ in an area that produces 70% of the total oil production in Italy.

Atlas mountains and Marrakech, Morocco

An exotic Moroccan cooking holiday starting in the village of Imlil in the Atlas mountains and ending, by way of contrast, in the bustling and colourful markets of Marrakech where we enjoy two cooking sessions in Riad Monceau. A truly authentic experience – discover the food culture that is so intertwined with every day life, for example, the boulangerie and the hammam in Imlil share the same building and wood fired stove!

A Roman gastronomic experience in Frascati, Rome

On our gastronomic tour of Castelli Romani, just beyond Rome, we stay in the pretty town of Frascati (name sake of the sparkling wines) where we are treated to an exclusive Roman culinary adventure, with our very own Roman resident guide Stefano Spinetti. Markets, restaurants, wine and food tastings, authentic pizza making, and lakeside Roman picnics…..

Classic Wine Tour of Piemonte, Northern Italy

Enjoy a wine tour of Piemonte during truffle season – a beautiful region bursting with delicious wines including Barolo and Barbresco. We guide you to some of the most famous, and unusual wineries in the area, including subterranean cathedrals – how mysterious! Taste, learn, walk the vines, mooch around Alba, taste the truffles, learn about abbinamento – the art of pairing food and wine.

If you travel alone, you might like to know that over two thirds of our guests are single travellers too. So far in 2014, 60% of our guests have travelled with us before.

For more information:

Call us on 01453 823328

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Snooty Fox Hotel - Food and Drink Festival Special

Tetbury Food & Drink Festival 17th - 21st September

 

Join us for a 4 day celebration of fine food and drink.

Special 4 Course Taste of Tetbury Menu available every evening throughout the festival
£32.50 per person. (Saturday SOLD OUT!)

Friday 19th - Heritage Wines are hosting a wine tasting event with up to 10 wines to test your tastebuds. In addition we will be matching 5 beers to 5 local food items.

The wine tasting is complimentary for diners and £10.00 per person for non diners.

www.snooty-fox.co.uk

email: res@snooty-fox.co.uk

Telephone: 01666 502436

Fabulous Baker Brothers at Highgrove 18th September 2014

The Orchard Restaurant at Highgrove is opening its doors once again for this year’s Tetbury Food Festival, working in partnership with the Fabulous Baker Brothers of Hobbs House on Thursday 18th September 2014 at 6pm

We would like to invite you to this special evening, starting with a 90 minute tour of the Highgrove Gardens.

 Over thirty years in the making, Highgrove is one of the most creatively inspired gardens anywhere in the world. A series of interlinked areas, each with their own character and purpose, weave around the house, reflecting the gardening ideals and organic principles of HRH The Prince of Wales.

Your tour, led by one of our experienced garden guides will be followed by a Champagne and Canapé reception on the Orchard Restaurant terrace.

Guests will have the opportunity to visit the Highgrove Estate shop

We will then serve a 2 course Supper, using local produce from across Gloucestershire, and a selection of Hobbs House Breads. Supper will include a glass of Highgrove Organic wine.

Following your supper, Tom and Henry Herbert of the “Fabulous Baker Brothers” will give a give an entertaining 30 minute talk on their passion for food and the importance of supporting local producers whilst you enjoy a selection of Hobbs House sweets and pastries with coffee or tea .

Tickets are £75 per person. Places are limited so we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment.

To book, call 0333 222 4555. Lines are open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.   Calls cost up to 5p a minute from UK landlines. Calls from mobiles may cost considerably more.       

All profits from Highgrove Garden Tours and products are donated to HRH The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation.

Cotswold Life Food and Drink Award Winners

View this email in a web browser Forward to a friend Over 500 highly esteemed guests, finalists and sponsors joined Cotswold Life to celebrate the 12th Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards at Cheltenham Racecourse on Monday, July 7. Hosted by Adam Henson, the awards celebrated the good and the great from the regions food and drink industry. Editor, Mike Lowe commented: “The food and drink industry in this region is an economic powerhouse. We grow the finest crops, we make brilliant cheese, the meat we farm is second to none, we have excellent breweries and vineyards and waiting to take advantage of this Cotswold bounty are some of the finest chefs and cooks in the country. The results can be seen at our farmers’ markets, in our shops and in our superb pubs, hotels and restaurants. We are so very lucky to be in this position and at Cotswold Life we celebrate the success and excellence of our region’s food professionals.” and the winners are... Winner: Toast the Cotswolds, Bourton-on the-Water Winner: Michael Hart & Son, Cirencester Winner: Aunt Martha’s Tea Room, Drybrook Winner: Horsley Community Shop, Horsley Winner: Over Farm Market, Over Winner: Severn Cider, Tewkesbury Farmers’ Market Winner: Classic Steak and Ale Pie, The Cotswold Traiteur, Moreton-in-Marsh Winner: Pliny the Elderflower, Corinium Ales, Cirencester Winner: Relish the Taste, Cheltenham Winner: The Crown and Sceptre, Stroud Winner: The Village Pub, Barnsley Winner: The Priory Inn, Tetbury Winner: Gareth Fulford, Purslane, Cheltenham Winner: Lumiere, Cheltenham Winner: Dormy House Hotel, Broadway Winner: Emily Watkins, The Kingham Plough, Kingham Photos and a full write up of the event will be in the August issue of Cotswold Life. To order your copy visit www.buyamag.co.uk/cotswold or to purchase images from the event contact antony@thousandwordmedia.com   Archant Community Media Ltd, Prospect House, Rouen Road, Norwich, Norfolk. NR1 1RE. Registered in England: 19300 *This message was sent to KATHRYN.LIMOI@BTINTERNET.COM; We hope you found it relevant. However, if you'd rather not receive future e-mails from us, please visit the opt-out link by clicking here*

Cookery Holiday with Authentic Adventures

Cooking Holidays in Puglia, Italy with Authentic Adventures  

Join us on 25^th October 2014 for a seven night break. £1,399 with no single supplement. 

Many more exciting adventures in 2015 including cooking holidays in India and Morocco. 

Written by Cooking tutor, Ylenia Sambati  

Puglia, in the south of Italy is a delight to explore because it has all the right ingredients for a first class culinary holiday. There are a few elements that will capture your heart and inspire your imagination: among these, food, wine and lifestyle. 

Puglia has a very laid back pace of life. Its vivid colors and unique architecture, quiet country roads, olive groves and farmlands will inspire and delight you. You will be amazed by todays local culture of first class food, particularly olive oil, farm fresh vegetables, wine and healthy Mediterranean food. 

Prepare yourself for sensory overload in Puglia: Greek influenced towns, the musicality of the Italian language, the smell of the sea, the light of the Leccese stone, the variety of wines, the warm locals and the sensational tastes of Puglia cuisine. Every day will be filled with memorable experiences that will make you want to stay forever.  

Pugliese cuisine relies heavily on its local vegetables and wild greens, extra virgin olive oil, wine, and wheat production. The region also provides much of the durum wheat for the dried pasta in the South. Pane Pugliese and Pane di Altamura are both breads famed in Italy and beyond. Puglia has a noted antipasto culture.  Restaurants usually parade six or more at the start of a meal. Other places only serve antipasti: lots of fried dishes of course, but also many interesting pickled items, and a number of antipasti that just emphasize the local vegetables. Some of the most famous dishes of the region: orecchiette pasta topped with bitter greens and also fried peppers and lampascioni, a bitter bulb that is typically pickled, pasticciotto, ciceri & tria pasta, fava bean purea and chicories. 

Puglia is also famous for its bread and focacce, and for the “taralli” and “friselle”, flavored with the local herbs and spices. 

Puglia was always a prolific producer of wine and has often been referred to as the “wine cellar of Italy”. Until a few decades ago this very stout and strong wine was exported to the northern regions and to France to be used as “cutting” wine. The results are spectacular, and wines such as Primitivo, Salice Salentino, Negroamaro, Squinzano, Verdeca are now appreciated by the best sommeliers.

And Puglia is also famous for its cheeses: the burrata, so creamy that it melts in your mouth just like whipped butter, ricotta, giuncata, primo sale, Caciocavallo Canestrato Pugliese, pecorino fresco, stracciatella and many more.  

Puglia is packed with whitewashed villages, diverse art and architecture, white sandy beaches and a fascinating history of people interconnected with the land and the sea. The land is host to olive trees and vineyards. The area sees blue sky days all year round and typically has mild wet winters and hot dry summers. 

Puglia is one of the world’s largest producers of olive oil contributing around 70 percent of Italy’s production and close to 15% of the worlds. They produce in fact some of the best known extra virgin of great quality. 

Under the expert guidance of our friendly chef, you will learn how to prepare traditional Puglian dishes, which vary according to the fresh ingredients available each season. At the end of each session all participants eat what they have prepared together, tasting great food and wine. Every day you will be guided through different aspects of the Puglia cuisine: ingredients, techniques and traditions, discovering their secrets and tasting new flavours.  

Each day you will explore a complete menu from appetizers to desserts. You will learn how to prepare fresh pasta and the art of making sauces, tasty second dishes and desserts. 

For more information contact Authentic Adventures on 01453 823328.

 

 

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Cotswold Life Food and Drink Awards 2014

The Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards is undoubtedly one of the biggest events in the Cotswold calendar. The awards are designed to champion, highlight and offer a showcase to the good and the great from the regions food & drink industry including local producers & suppliers, small farming businesses, chefs, restaurants, pubs and hoteliers, and people who care about the countryside and the future of our local environment.  

The black-tie awards ceremony will take place on Monday July 7 in the Centaur at Cheltenham Racecourse from 6.30pm to midnight.  

Tickets to the awards ceremony are available for £60 +VAT per person or £600 +VAT for a table of 10. Tickets include a champagne reception with canapés, superb goody bags filled with local produce, local wines and soft drinks and a three course locally sourced meal with coffee followed by a fantastic Cotswold cheeseboard. After dinner Adam Henson from BBC Countryfile will host the award ceremony and announce the winners of this year’s highly coveted awards.   

This is great opportunity to network with the great and the good from the Cotswold business community.

 To buy tickets to the event call 01242 211076 or email ceri.mcqueen@archant.co.uk with the subject line CLFDA Tickets.

"MasterChef" Koj confirmed for this years festival - Here is His latest news

The hungry gap Longer days, daffodils, tree blossom, lambs, sunshine, happier people... but as a chef, I'm not yet satisfied. We are in the hungry gap. There is an Organic Wagon at the end of my road (it used to be the Veg Shed but is now a colourful old cart run on an honesty box basis). I stop there, if not to buy something for supper, then to seek inspiration in the abundance of colours and shapes. At the beginning of the month, I collected a beautiful purple sprouting cauliflower but since then there has been little more on offer than potatoes, cauliflowers and kale, diminishing daily. That is set to change: spring has sprung and although there is a frustrating gap, I am excited that tomorrow I am going to collect fistfuls of wild garlic leaves. In a few weeks, they will produce white flowers, with a spicy allium scent, that will daintify any salad or soup. MasterChef 10th anniversary series Last autumn, the BBC came to film me cooking at home and at Westonbirt. They were revisiting the finalists from the last ten years (pictured above) to find out how their careers and lives have changed since MasterChef. I was also invited back to the studio to taste some of the new contestants' food - it brought back memories and although the quality was very mixed, it did remind me how far I have come in two years. My appearance will be screened in Episode 7, at 8pm on Wednesday 9th April 2014. Special occasions I was recently asked to cater for an 80th birthday dinner. I have already cooked for 21st, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th and 80th birthday dinners! If you're turning 90 or 100, please get in touch. kojcooks.co.uk/specialoccasions Teambuilding I'm currently designing a Japanese street food banquet for an investment management company offsite. There's a range of ideas to involve food and cooking in your teambuilding events. Visit kojcooks.co.uk/corporate Lunch I have had a lot of requests recently for lunch, often Sundays but mid-week as well. If you fancy entertaining your friends, but don't fancy the time in the kitchen that comes with it, visit my website. Menus start from £45 per person for weekday lunches and include nibbles, three courses and petits fours. Here are some of my favourite lunch dishes this year. Beetroots, Vulscombe goats cheese, Parma ham, endive, pear and lime chutney Braised pork shoulder, tenderloin, crackling, onion mash and crispy sage Rhubarb and mango, toasted almond crumble, creme fraiche sorbet Shipton Moyne Cookery Club At long last, in follow up to a series of village hall cookery demonstrations that I have held over the past year, I am pleased to announce the launch of Shipton Moyne Cookery Club. If yoga, pilates or male voice choirs aren't your thing, I'll be running a 5 week course of cooking classes on Tuesdays beginning on 29th April and running until 27th May. The course will cost £99 for 5 sessions, which includes the tuition and ingredients to create a meal for two people. For more details, visit kojcooks.co.uk/shiptonmoyne Private chef Perfect for holiday cottages, or in other words, self-catering holidays where you don't really want to cater yourself. I cook breakfast, lunch and dinner for your entire party. If the weather turns bad, join me in the kitchen for a cooking lesson. kojcooks.co.uk/privatechef Private tuition gift vouchers If you're stuck for ideas for someone's birthday, have a look at some of the private cookery classes that I offer. kojcooks.co.uk/giftvouchers Food Festivals and demonstrations The Food Festival season kicks off in May. First up, Marlborough Food Festival on Sunday 11 May, followed two weeks later by Foodies Festival at Marble Hill (a new venue). For a full list of demonstrations, visit kojcooks.co.uk/demonstrations Supper Clubs Koj cooks at Humble by Nature A menu inspired by 1970s memories Friday 9th May - click here to book Koj cooks at York House Chef's table experience with wines paired by David Almeida of The Oxford Wine Company Thursday 12th June This spring... I shall mostly be cooking: Cabbages, leeks and cauliflowers Jersey Royal new potatoes Purple sprouting broccoli Hop Shoots and asparagus Nettles and wild garlic St Georges and Morel Mushrooms Woodpigeon and lamb   Guest chef at Lucknam Park Cookery School I'm honoured to be chosen as the first guest chef at Lucknam Park Cookery School. Head Chef Kesh moved from the restaurants at Lucknam Park just over a year ago and in that short time has built a first class cookery school, with a wide array of courses on virtually every single day of the week. Now, they and some of their regulars are ready to take on Japanese. On Thursday 22 May, I will lead a day course in Japanese cookery, introducing the ingredients and showing how simple it is, once you have a few basic building blocks under your belt. To book a place, please visit: lucknampark.co.uk/cookeryschool Macrobiotic I am now working with Celia Duplock, a macrobiotic chef, consultant and cookery teacher. There is already a strong overlap in the Japanese cooking that I offer, but with her advice, I can now produce delicious food that not only satisfies the gastronomic hedonist in you, but that is also exceptionally good for your health and wellbeing in the longer term. For more details, visit: kojcooks.co.uk/macrobiotic Looking for part time staff I am looking for part time staff, both to work front of house and in the kitchen with me. Experience preferred for front of house but not necessary for kitchen - all I need is someone who is quick to learn, enthusiastic about cooking, hard working and fun to work with. The role is broad and versatile - don't apply if you're afraid of a bit of washing up - that happens in a kitchen. To apply and for more details, email me