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Children's Food Festival 2009
The Children's Food Festival, organised by the Northmoor Trust, is fronted by Patrons Raymond Blanc
and Sophie Grigson
, who will be giving hands-on demos, inviting children to help them chop, stir, smell and taste. The line-up also includes Annabel Karmel
, Jane Fearnley Whittingstall (author of The Good Granny Cookbook), Sam Stern
(the Teenage Chef) and Nora Sands (Jamie’s School Dinner Lady). Children’s cookery writer Amanda Grant will be running the Kids’ Kitchen.
Children of all ages are invited to become adventurers in the world of real food and they will be able to get their hands into plenty of ingredients from pizza to pesto and sushi to sausages. Children who already love food and cooking can show off their skills to their peers and explore their passion further. Highlights include: open fire cookery, bicycle-powered smoothie-making, the observation beehive and the Smell and Taste Experience with the Academy of Culinary Arts.
The idea for a food festival for children came to Eka Morgan, the Festival's Director, in 2005. "Parents say that one of the best ways to encourage children to eat good food is to get them to cook it themselves. I thought that a festival which conveyed positive messages about food, with plenty of colour, humour and hands-on cooking, could go some way to transform young people’s approach to eating."
The Northmoor Trust's yardstick for the success of the Festival is if children are clamouring to help in the kitchen when they get home. Happily, feedback from the first Festival in 2007 showed that this did happen in many cases. So, the Northmoor Trust are doing it all again, in order to inspire more children and families to relish food.
Date and time: Saturday 27 (10am – 6pm) and Sunday 28 June (10am – 5pm)
Place: The Northmoor Trust
Farm. The entrance to the Festival will not be via Northmoor Trust offices, please see the website for directions: www.childrensfoodfestival.co.uk
Car: £10 per car on the gate
Shuttle Bus: £3 per adult from Didcot Parkway railway station
Cycle or Foot: £3 per adult.
All activities at the Festival are free!
The Children's Food Festival, organised by the Northmoor Trust, is fronted by Patrons Raymond Blanc
Raymond Blanc
Raymond Blanc OBE is a French chef, born in Besançon, France. Today he is one of the Britain's most respected chefs. Blanc is the owner and chef at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a hotel-restaurant in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England. The restaurant has two Michelin stars and scored 9/10 in the...
and Sophie Grigson
Sophie Grigson
Hester Sophia Frances Grigson is an English cookery writer and celebrity chef known as Sophie Grigson. She has followed the same path and career as her mother, Jane Grigson. Her father was the poet and writer Geoffrey Grigson.-Life:...
, who will be giving hands-on demos, inviting children to help them chop, stir, smell and taste. The line-up also includes Annabel Karmel
Annabel Karmel
Annabel Jane Elizabeth Karmel MBE is the author of books on nutrition and cooking for babies, children and families.Her first book was The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner, written in 1991. It was endorsed by Great Ormond Street Hospital, the UK’s leading children’s hospital...
, Jane Fearnley Whittingstall (author of The Good Granny Cookbook), Sam Stern
Sam Stern
Sam Stern is a British celebrity chef and author. He has written four cookbooks and has a contract for one more. Stern grew up as the youngest of five siblings in Yorkshire, England Stern writes a regular column called "Sam's Super Kids" in First News...
(the Teenage Chef) and Nora Sands (Jamie’s School Dinner Lady). Children’s cookery writer Amanda Grant will be running the Kids’ Kitchen.
Children of all ages are invited to become adventurers in the world of real food and they will be able to get their hands into plenty of ingredients from pizza to pesto and sushi to sausages. Children who already love food and cooking can show off their skills to their peers and explore their passion further. Highlights include: open fire cookery, bicycle-powered smoothie-making, the observation beehive and the Smell and Taste Experience with the Academy of Culinary Arts.
The idea for a food festival for children came to Eka Morgan, the Festival's Director, in 2005. "Parents say that one of the best ways to encourage children to eat good food is to get them to cook it themselves. I thought that a festival which conveyed positive messages about food, with plenty of colour, humour and hands-on cooking, could go some way to transform young people’s approach to eating."
The Northmoor Trust's yardstick for the success of the Festival is if children are clamouring to help in the kitchen when they get home. Happily, feedback from the first Festival in 2007 showed that this did happen in many cases. So, the Northmoor Trust are doing it all again, in order to inspire more children and families to relish food.
Date and time: Saturday 27 (10am – 6pm) and Sunday 28 June (10am – 5pm)
Place: The Northmoor Trust
Northmoor Trust
The Northmoor Trust was set up in 1969 by the British engineer Sir Martin Wood to promote environmental conservation through land management, education and land science...
Farm. The entrance to the Festival will not be via Northmoor Trust offices, please see the website for directions: www.childrensfoodfestival.co.uk
Car: £10 per car on the gate
Shuttle Bus: £3 per adult from Didcot Parkway railway station
Cycle or Foot: £3 per adult.
All activities at the Festival are free!