Food
and cooking articles and information:
10th
Manchester Food & Drink Festival set to be most
exciting yet!
 This
year the Manchester Food & Drink Festival celebrates
its Tenth anniversary and looks set to be the most exciting
showcase yet!
Taking
place from the 5th to the 15th October, food and drink
revellers can expect events and offers in hundreds of
restaurants, bars and cafes as well as outdoor events
across the City and region!
Confirmed
events so far include:
-
Real Food Fair - Building on the success of
last year's event, this year's Real Food Fair will
be bigger and better. The fair will feature businesses
showcasing their products with a focus on locally
sourced produce including Mrs Kirkham's Lancashire
Cheese, Southport and Lancashire Honey and Cains Brewary
- Taste
Pavillion (Albert Square) - The focal point of
the outdoor activity will takes place in Manchester's
Albert Square as the Manchester Food & Drink Festival
take over with three Taste Pavilions erected specially
for the Festival. Expect a Taste of Manchester Dining
Room; a themed Taste Marquee, with exciting activities
changing daily and a cutting edge Chef Demo area
- Food
and Drink Markets (St Ann's Square) - Once again,
throughout the Festival, local producers and farmers
will take up residence right in the heart of the City
Centre. From last year's Producer of the Year winners
'Mawson's Sasparilla' to the multi-award winning 'Butlers
Farmhouse Cheeses' expect a true taste of the North
West on a grand scale!
- Manchester
Food & Drink Festival Gala Dinner and Awards (15
October) - The region's most hotly anticipated
awards will be distributed to Greater Manchester's
brightest talent from all corners of the food and
drink industry. Award categories range from Restaurant
of the Year to The Award for Healthy and Sustainable
Eating
All
ten districts of Greater Manchester will be taking part
in this year's festival:
- Salford
Food & Drink Festival
- Trafford
Food & Drink Festival
- Bury
Food & Drink Festival
- Tameside
Food & Drink Festival
- Stockport
Food & Drink Festival
- Manchester
Food & Drink Festival
- Bolton
Food & Drink Festival
- Wigan
Food & Drink Festival
- Oldham
Food & Drink Festival
- Rochdale
Food & Drink Festival
This
central theme of this year's festival is healthy eating.
Life expectancy in Manchester is amongst the lowest
in the UK with obesity being another huge problem
Phil
Jones, Executive Producer of the Food & Drink Festival
said: "Over the past ten years the festival has
gone from strength to strength, celebrating a number
of successes and helping to put Manchester's food culture
firmly on the map. However, one thing remains the same
. . . our city is increasingly unhealthy and if we don't
do something about it now in 20 years time our life
expectancy will be even lower.
"The
festival provides Manchester with the ideal platform
to help change the regions eating habits for the better
and ties in with the Government's objective to tackle
obesity. I urge local authorities to take a responsible
attitude before it's too late."
In
support of the theme of this years festival, Dr Chris
Steele from ITV's This Morning said: "Health in
Manchester is quickly deteriorating and I praise the
Manchester Food & Drink Festival for pledging to
do something about it now before it is too late. If
every bar, restaurant, shop or stall takes note I am
sure that attitudes towards healthy eating in Manchester
will change for the better."
Phil
Jones adds: "We plan to make the Manchester Food
& Drink Festival the biggest and best Food &
Drink Festival that the nation has seen. We plan to
use every space in the City and as many venues as possible
to really celebrate the fantastic food and drink that
we have."
The
Manchester Food & Drink Festival is a nationally
acclaimed event that has developed to its current level
over 10 years (the 2007 event will be the Tenth annual
event to take over the City).
Conceived
and developed by Phil Jones and Chris Tomlinson in 1998,
the event originated as a means of showing the rest
of the nation that there was more to Manchester dining
than meat pies and gravy! In the nine Festivals that
have taken place over that time, the Festival has achieved
a national status.
- Over
the years the Festival has drawn names as diverse
as Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Bill Wyman.
- The
MFDF awards are recognised as the most important in
the region.
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Manchester
Food & Drink Festival Gala Dinner
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A
few great recipes from some of the chefs appearing at
the show:
(just click on a recipe to view)
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Andrew
Nutter
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Michael
Caines
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David
Gale
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Paul
Heathcote
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Published
16 August 2007
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