'Sushi' Cookery Workshop at Hell
Date: Monday 23 June.
Time: 10.00am - 1.30pm.
Venue: Hell Farmhouse, Chideock.
Learn to prepare fresh, authentic Japanese Sushi and discover its delicate flavours.
Cost: £40 per person including all ingredients and lunch.

Indian Cookery Workshop
Date: Tuesday 24 June.
Time: 10.30am - 1.00pm.
Venue: To be advised when booking.
Helen from the Taj Mahal Restaurant will conduct a sizzling workshop
on authentic Indian home cooking.
Cost: £30 per person including all ingredients and lunch.

Chinese Cookery Workshop
Date: Wednesday 25 June.
Time: 11.00am - 1.30pm.
Venue: K. Yuen, 50 East Street, Bridport.
Mrs Ho from the K Yuen Chinese Takeaway is offering a workshop where you
can learn to make less well known traditional Chinese dishes using local ingredients.
Cost: £30 per person including all ingredients and lunch.

Limited number of places available at workshops.
Please contact Shige Takezoe on 01297 489589 to book a place.

Japanese Restaurant at Marsh Barn
Date: Thursday 26 June.
Times: 1st Sitting - 6.30pm. 2nd sitting - 8.00pm.
Venue: Marsh Barn, Burton Road, Bridport.
A unique opportunity to experience some traditional Japanese dishes at a reasonable price.
Choose from a selection of complete cooked meals.
Cost: £12 per person. Advance Booking only - Contact Shige Takezoe on 01297 489589.

Easy Peasy Gardening Competition
The following are the Primary Schools participating in the 2008 Competition.
The judging will take place prior to the Festival with the announcement of the
Winner at Noon on Sunday 29 June.
The exhibits will be on show from Saturday 28 June.
The Schools are: Thorners (Litton Cheney), Parrett and Axe (Mosterton), Burton Bradstock, Symondsbury, Charmouth, Broadwindsor, Bridport Primary, St Catherine's (Bridport),
St Mary's (Bridport).

Friday 27 June
No Entrance Fee

6.00 pm The 2008 Festival commences with the Round Table Beer Festival.
Food will be available from 6.00pm.

The Lions Club of Bridport will be providing their usual splendid Hog Roast
and BBQ. The hog roast comes from Bonners Butchers of Ilminster, sausages from
Washingpool Farm and Burgers from Rawles Butchers.

Downhouse Farm at Higher Eype will be providing their delicious
vegetarian Frittata and other goodies.

8.30 pm Music by the Vinyl Monkeys in the Beer Festival Marquee.

11.00 pm Festival Closes for the evening.

 

Saturday 28 June
ENTRANCE FEE: £2 per adult, children free

9.30 am Food Festival opens.

11.00 am Beer Festival opens.

5.00 pm Food Festival closes for the day.

6.00 pm Bridport Rotary Club will be providing a BBQ to keep all those thirsty drinkers from too many hunger pangs.

8.30 pm Music provided by Howling at the Moon in the Beer Festival Marquee.

11.00 pm Festival closes for the day

We have something for all the family!

The bigger Food and Drink Marquee will have a wide selection of stands mainly from
Dorset, Devon and South Somerset.

There will be Food to Go, both in the Food and Drink Marquee and outside,
so nobody should go hungry.

The Cookery Demonstration Marquee will be hosting a series of demonstrations entitled:

Exotic Cooking Using Local Ingredients.
Those participating on Saturday are:
Helen Choudhury from the Taj Mahal Restaurant, Bridport
Tony Smith from Moonfleet Manor Hotel, nr Weymouth
Jane Luxmore and Darthey Smerdon from Soundbite Cookery School, nr Sherborne
Laurence Norman from Bridge House Hotel, Bridport, and Daniel Williams from
West Dorset Food and Land Trust.

See notice board outside Demonstration Marquee for times.

Our Countryside Marquee is hosting talks including the local fishermen who were a great success last year, and stands covering many areas dealing with both the country and seaside. This marquee will also be showing the Easy-Peasy Gardening Competition.

Others taking part will the Town Council on Climate Change and the Allotment Society.

Children's Activities We will be having a Bouncy Castle, Face Painting
and other attractions.

 

Sunday 29 June
ENTRANCE FEE: £2 per adult, children free

10.00 am Food Festival opens.

11.00 am Beer Festival opens.

Music by Will Ferris in the Beer Marquee

12.00 pm Announcement of Results of Schools Easy-Peasy Gardening Competition.

03.00 pm Festival closes.

More food and drink in the Food and Drink Marquee and outside.

The Cookery Demonstration Marquee will continue with the theme
Exotic Cooking Using Local Ingredients.

Sunday's participants are:

Mike Feasey from Nosh Catering and author of Eat Dorset from Maiden Newton
Adam Simon from Tamarisk Farm, West Bexington*

* Adam's demonstration will deal with bread making so please take note that we have a mobile bread maker on site. Leakers will be opening their premises for a visit to see the ovens during the week preceding the Festival.

The Countryside Marquee will be hosting more speakers including George Streatfeild on Cheese Making at 11.00 am and Clive Groves on 'A Day in the Life of a Violet Grower' in the afternoon.

More Children's Activities including a Coconut Shy.

 

Year of Food and Farming
With the help of Beaminster NFU and FACE (Farming and Countryside Education) we have also set
up links between local schools and farms which we hope will last for years to come and there will be
a chance to see the range of sectors these farms cover, illustrating the typical agriculture of the area.

Bothenhill Farm, Bothenhampton – organic veg, sheep, pigs, chickens, box scheme
Bridge Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum – dairy, beef, chickens and ducks
Chilcombe Farm, Chilcombe – dairy and beef
Crutchley Farms, Nettlecombe – arable, dairy, beef, sheep and woodland
Denhay Farms , Broadoak – dairy and cheesemaking
Down House Farm, Higher Eype – organic beef, pigs and sheep with a café
Medway Farm, Askerswell – sheep, turkeys for Christmas, arable
Modbury Farm, Burton Bradstock – organic Jersey herd, pigs and farm shop
Moorlands Farm, Broadwindsor – dairy
Pipplepen Farm, South Perrott – organic dairy herd
Tamarisk Farm, West Bexington – mixed organic, environmental schemes
Washingpool Farm, Bridport – beef, sheep, pigs, fruit and veg and farm shop and restaurant
Westover Farm, Wootton Fitzpaine – beef, environmental schemes