Free Range Festival For Foodies Welcomes Michelin Star Good Food Guide Chef
New food festival Bude for Food welcome Paul Ainsworth, from Number 6 in Padstow; featured in the Good Food Guide's Top 50 Restaurants this week
Cornwall is as famous for toiling tin as it is tempting its tourists, and it's often a port of call for polishing off a pasty or quaffing a cream tea. Bude, Cornwall’s most up-and-coming seaside town, boasts an array of local producers, restaurants, pubs and cafés whose food is sourced with care, prepared with skill and delivered with pride.
Bude Castle lays forth its lawns later this month, Saturday 20 September and Sunday 21 September, as an open invitation is extended to readers to discover the class of culinary cleverness hiding around the banks of the old canal.
Foodies are advised to come hungry to Bude for Food, in order to explore everything from charcuterie to chocolates, pasties to preserves and everything in between. In excess of 50 handpicked exhibitors will be showcasing their home grown wares in the Artisan Food Marquee.
Michelin-starred top chef Paul Ainsworth from Number 6 in Padstow, will be on hand providing demonstrations in the kitchen theatre, with a focus on the seasonally available produce in the region. Number 6 featured in the Top 50 Restaurants announced last week by The Good Food Guide. Along with Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, this kept Cornwall's running as a gastronomic haven.
In addition to Ainsworth, revered local chefs Emily Watkins (Kingham Plough, Great British Menu), Martin Dorey (the Camper Van Cook), Sanjay Kumar (leader of Slow Food Cornwall and champion of the Cornish sardine) and Steve Marsh (the Greenbank Hotel in Falmouth) have demonstrations; to brush up on tips and collect recipes.
Masterclasses to improve accessibility of food include the art of foraging with the Eden Project’s Emma Gunn and a food bank cookery demonstration from Sanjay Kumar. Poised to promote accessibility, the festival fuses a feast of fresh talent with affordable fun for all the family. Activities workshops feed children's imaginations, which, coupled with a play area and baby-change facilities; make it a cost effective weekend option to be sated in sun soaked fun.
If the food alone isn't enough to tantalise tastebuds, Saturday night is party night, with live music from some of Cornwall’s finest: Freshly Squeezed, an eight-piece funk-fuelled set of outstanding musicians famous for filling dance floors, appears on a double bill with Antimatador, featuring Simon Dobson, award-winning master of brass and composer of the year 2012. Friday provides its share of belly laughs with a comedy night featuring Patrick Monahan, veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe.
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Bude for Food is a not-for-profit festival organised by foodie aficionados to enrich the North Cornwall community by showcasing producers and creators of fine Cornish cuisine.
Where and when
Bude for Food, Bude Castle Lawns, The Wharf, Bude EX23 8LG
Friday 19 September (19.00-23.00), Saturday 20 September (10.00-23.00), Sunday 21 September (10.00-16.00)
Daytime entry free; Artisan Food Marquee wristband entry £1.50; evening events ticketed, see website for details
