29/06/12..’Star line-up’ for Thame Food Festival

A STAR line-up for this year’s Thame Food Festival has now been confirmed for the event’s popular Cookery Theatre.

The running order for the Cookery Theatre on Saturday, September 29, now looks like this:-

10:00 ? 10:40 Beverley Glock: Splat Cooking

10:45 ? 11:25 Laurie Gear of The Artichoke, Amersham

11:30 ? 12.10 Adam Simmonds, Adam Simmonds at Danesfield House

12:15 ? 12.55 McCormick UK

13:00 ? 13:40 Raymond Blanc and Kush from Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons

13:45 ? 14.25 Lotte Duncan

14:30 ? 15:10 Marcus Bean

15:15 ? 15:55 Katie & Giancarlo Caldesi

16:00 ? 16:25 Nigel Rumsey of Rumsey’s Chocolaterie

16:30 ? 17:15 Mark & Adam from The Raymond Blanc Cookery School v Hardings Restaurant

17:30 Raffle draw

Other food events throughout the day will include Beverley Glock putting on the lab coat and goggles in the town hall, to amaze the kids with food science like you’ve never seen before with Whizz Bang Food. There’ll be food talks and demonstrations in The Stables at The James Figg – including a Sausage Making demo and Wine Tasting for Beginners.

More foodie events will include Lotte Duncan at the AGA shop, where there will be other demos too, and galettes and chocolate related fun, courtesy of Rumsey’s. The Spread Eagle will be hosting Crepe and Cocktail demos with free tasters as well as serving ‘Posh Kebabs’ and specially priced cream teas all day.

Frazer Sutherland of The Thatch and James Figg free houses will be running a Pop-Up-Pub with great local beers, snacks and comfy sofas.

Entertainment will hopefully include a brass band and a music marquee, a Smoothie Bike in the Town Hall, and an Oyster Meister, details of which will appear in a future feature blog.

If you don’t already, you can keep up with all the Thame Food Festival news on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Thamefoodfestival and Twitter @thamefoodfest

PHOTO: Whiz Bang cook, Beverley Glok