Star Baker To Appear At Bakewell's 6th Food Festival
Published On Wednesday 26 Apr 2017 by Sticky Beak
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On Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th April, the beautiful, historic market town of Bakewell, will again be celebrating the wealth of local produce and its excellence in the rural areas of the UK.
Photo courtesy of the Bakewell Baking Festival
This Peak District town will feature over 60 food and drink related stalls and there will be a tempting 'tasting trail' to help you explore the streets and all that's on offer.
Exciting news for this year is that Bakewell based Hartington School of food will feature Great British Bake Off's 'star' baker, Howard Middleton , who will be demonstrating his cookery and baking skills.
He will be baking madeleines and stilton and walnut biscuits as well as taking part in a Q&A session about Bake Off and signing copies of his Gluten Free Baking Book. Cheryl Harper Wilson doing cake sculpting demos. Liver Cottage Cooking ‘al tesco’ courtesy of The Fairly Famous Family around the town over the weekend.
Cookery demonstrations from the Fisher Pykel Social Kitchen Love Food Road Show, with Richard Fox, award winning writer, cook book author and TV chef presenter on the Sunday and Clover Hutson on the Saturday. Alana Spencer, The Apprentice winner will be showcasing her ‘Ridiculously Rich’ Belgium chocolate cakes.
Bakewell's wealth of shops, pubs and cafes will be open as normal, plus on the Saturday the regular Farmers Market will also take place in the Agricultural Centre.
For full information of this excellent annual event please visit www.whatsonbakewell.co.uk
* Please note the events at Hartingtons School of Food with Howard Middleton and Cheryl Harper Wilson are Sunday only
BAKEWELL FOOD FESTIVAL
Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th April 2017 9am to 5pm
The Bakewell Food Festival returns for its sixth year, celebrating the wealth of excellent local produce that the Peak District and this beautiful market town have to offer. As well as the multi-award winning farmers market in the Agricultural Business Centre, the town’s historic streets will host more that their usual splendid offerings of food
* Farmers Market on the Saturday
* Over 60 food stalls around the town
* Wine, Beer and food tastings and sampling
* Liver Cottage Cooking – ‘al tesco’ courtesy of The Fairly Famous Family
* Star chef ‘Howard Middleton’ of Great British Bake off at Hartington School
* Children’s rides
* Cookery Demonstrations and much much more
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