Porthleven Food Festival 2010

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2010 Festival

The Young Peoples
Festival

Sunday 25th April 2010

Talks in the Main Marquee
on Wild Food Foraging,
Bee Keeping
Pasty Crimping,
"Fish Preparation made Simple"
by Porthleven's very own John Strike.

Making a Kitchen Garden

11.00am
Attracting Bees to your Vegetable Garden

Rodger Dewhurst of Gwenen Apiaries bought his first colony of bees at auction on The Lizard in 1972 and is now an international expert who advises the Government's Central Science Laboratories, National Bee Unit. He and his wife breed native bees for their Varroa and Disease resistance and support around a hundred colonies. Find out how to attract and support a healthy and industrious bee poplulation to your garden and vegetable patch, and take away a list of flowers and plants that bees will love.

12.00pm
Wild Food Foraging

Forager and ecologist, Caroline Davey is talking about wild food in Cornwall; it's importance to us historically and it's relevance today and in the future. The talk will include a slide show of edible wild foods found in West Cornwall, followed by cooking demonstrations using locally foraged herbs, vegetables and seaweeds. Caroline runs her own foraging business, Fat Hen, in West Cornwall

1.00pm
Pasty Crimping

How to crimp a proper Cornish Pasty, bu the experts from the Horse and Jockey! Don't be fobbed off by mass-produced fakes!
This is the real thing!

2.00pm
Fish Preparation Made Simple

Porthleven's very own John Strike won title of Britain's Best Fishmonger in 1989; became Freeman of the worshipful Company of Fishmongers and then received the Freedom of the City of London, before retiring from Quayside Fish in 2008; so he knows a thing or two about his subject.

If you like eating fish but are hesitant about preparing it, this charming Cornishman will show you how to deal with flat fish (like plaice) and get the best out of it fresh. Afterwards, you can ask as many questions as you like!

3.00pm
Making a Kitchen Garden

by John Rankin Winner of Radio 4's Food and Farming Awards, School Chef 2009 and nominated for Times Educational Award 2010

A presentation with questions and answers with the audience.

4.00pm
Grand Prize Draw