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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Sunday 25 July, 11 am to 2 pm
Bedford
Marketplace
at The Ent Shed,The Gordan Arms, Castle Road, Bedford
Members and non-members welcome. A unique opportunity to purchase real food from five of the best local producers, plus talks and more. Full details here.
Followed by - from 2.30 pm to 7 pm
Taste Real Food Bedford 1st Anniversary Party
Free festival of food, music and celebration drink (members only). Full details here.
Sunday 10 August, from 10.00 am
Ludlow
Magnalonga - the food and drink walk
Organised by Ludlow Food Festival, this annual event takes you for a seven-mile walk through wonderful countryside around Ludlow, with four stops. At each stop you eat a course of a meal featuring typical local produce, and a drink of local beer, cider or perry. Eat, drink and walk the country! £19.95. Early booking advised, full details here.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10-12 September
Ludlow Food Festival
Now in its 16th year, Britain's original food festival, celebrating food and drink from Ludlow and the Marches, and Taste Real Food's partner organisation. Unforgettable and a must for food lovers everywhere. Details here
Thursday 16 September
Cheshire - Antrobus Village Hall
An event to showcase local products (especially artisan) which will also appeal to those wishing to find out more about Taste Real Food.
Contact: Geoffrey Carr on 07802 392 537 or email him.
Wednesday 6 October
Cheshire - Byley Village Hall
Pear Dinner
To mark our first anniversay as the meal will feature pears (our symbol and seasonal) in each course.
Details available nearer the time from Geoffrey Carr on 07802 392 537 or email him.
Friday 12 November
Cheshire - Knutsford Civic Centre
Game Dinner
Local sourcing. Details available nearer the time from Geoffrey Carr on 07802 392 537 or email him.
Saturday 4 December
Cheshire - Byley Village Hall
Christmas Dinner
Retro 1960s theme. Details available nearer the time from Geoffrey Carr on 07802 392 537 or email him.
RECENT EVENTS
Friday 9 July, from 10.00 am
Bedford
TRFB Project 2010 welcomes Hazeldene Lower School
The Taste Real Food Bedford Project 2010 is an ambitious venture incorporating taste education through Look, Touch, Taste and Feel. It has established the Bedford Heritage Hero, Thomas Laxton, in the minds of so many. A day's programme of events, full details here.
Sunday 18 July, 3.30 pm
Cheshire - Nunsmere Hall Hotel, Oakmere
Gala Musical Tea Party
We plan a traditional English tea party of a high standard, with an equally impeccable quality of music. Sandwiches, scones and pastries, all made in Nunsmere's kitchens with the benefit of a specialist pastry chef. Menu and full details here.
Friday 11 June, from 10.00 am
Bedford, Welcomes Hills Lower School
TRFB Project 2010
The Taste Real Food Bedford Project 2010 is an ambitious venture incorporating taste education through Look, Touch, Taste and Feel. It has established the Bedford Heritage Hero, Thomas Laxton, in the minds of so many. A day's programme of events, full details here.
Saturday 22 May, from 7.00 pm
Bedford
The Devvy Beer Festival
at The Devonshire Arms, 32, Dudley Street, Bedford
TRF Bedford with be in The Devvy Garden Sizzling the Taste of Real Food and listening to the sounds of Fusion Modern Soul
Menu and full details here. List of festival beers here.
£3.00, price includes a donation to TRFB Project 2010
Friday 23 April, 7.30 pm
Bedford
The Castle, Newnham Street, Bedford
Taste St George's Day
Special meal featuring shorthorn beef broth, smoked wild trout, Tudor syle wild boar and cherry posset. £25 (non-members £30) - prices includes a contribution to TRF Bedford Project 2010. Full menu and details here. (PDF)
Saturday & Sunday 8/9 May
Ludlow
Ludlow Spring Festival
A great celebration of beer (130 real ales), bangers and bread, plus classic cars, music and more. Free £1 drinks voucher exclusive to Taste Real Food members - present your membership card at the Taste Real Food stand inside the castle. Festival details here
Sunday 28 March
Ludlow
Unicorn Inn, Corve Street
Shropshire Fidget Pie Competition
Entry to the competition was open to all. It was followed by a Food and Drink Quiz at the Unicorn, during which the participants in the quiz also tasted and judged the pies. Photos and results here.
Bedford Group enjoying a special "Celebrating Winter" meal at the end of January.
The event featured a special meal with interesting-sounding dishes - "The Fish & The Goat", "The Cow, the Chicken & the Pig" and "The Sheep, the Bee and the Sea".
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RECENT NEWS AND EVENTS
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LUDLOW
SPRING FESTIVAL
Taste Real Food had a stand at this very successful event, which featured beer (147 different real ales), bread and bangers.
We held hourly tastings, which proved very popular, throughout the two days where we invited people to taste three products which symbolised real food and which enabled us to explain what we were about!
The three products were two-day old Wobbly Bottom goats cheese hand made from a farm near Bedford, Pear and Perry bread made by artisan baker Peter Cook from Price's bakery in Ludlow, and the bread and the cheese were matched with Festival Perry that had been produced by Ralph's Cider in Radnorshire from perry pears pressed at a demonstration held at last September's Ludlow Food Festival.
We met a lot of people who were interested either in joining Taste Real Food or in setting up a local group, and we're following up these enquiries now.
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BRECON forms Taste Real Food Group
We are pleased to welcome Brecon as the home of our newest Taste Real Food group - and our first group in Wales!
A meeting of people who were interested in the concept of Taste Real Food, and who were also interested in exploring the idea of Brecon becoming a 'Real Food Town', took place in the Castle Hotel, Brecon, on 4th February. Taste Real Food UK directors Liz Sharples and John Fleming described what real food is, what Taste Real Food is all about, and outlined the way in which they could assist with a Taste Real Food Town programme. Other speakers spoke about the boost to quality local food and drink producers and suppliers that could result from the town setting up a local Taste Real Food initiative.
Local individuals and businesses, including food producers, B&B owners, restaurant and cafe owners, took part in a lively debate about real food and drink in general, its importance to the local economy, and about how Taste Real Food could fit in with Brecon's aspirations.
If you are in the Brecon or Powys area and wish to be kept informed about Taste Real Food progress in and around Brecon, please email us or phone the office.
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