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 The award-winning East Midlands Food and Drink Festival – the UK’s largest regional event of its kind – will take place at Brooksby Hall near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire from 4-5 October 2008. The festival, spread over 4,645 square metres of covered marquee space at the site, will feature more than 200 exhibitors from around the region, and is expected this year to attract more than 20,000 visitors.
Top celebrity chefs including Clarissa Dickson Wright, Rachel Green and Anjum Anand from the BBC’s Indian Food Made Easy will lead the celebrations by hosting talks and demonstrations throughout the two-day festival.
The theme for this year's festival is Diversity: Food and Cultures of the East Midlands. Besides traditional favourites such as Melton Mowbray Pork Pies, Bakewell Pudding and Stilton Cheese, the East Midlands is home to a wealth of delicacies from communities that have settled in the region since the second world war. The festival will celebrate this diversity with demonstrations from a range of different cultures, many of whom will also be displaying their art, dance, music and crafts.
 ‘The East Midlands Food Festival has evolved into one of the most popular and progressive food festivals in the UK,’ says festival chairman Matthew O'Callaghan. ‘The festival is a truly unique celebration of food and drink, combining the great rural cuisine and culture of Melton Mowbray and Leicestershire with the diverse gastronomy of the region as a whole.’
Visitors to the newly revamped food festival website, www.eastmidlandsfoodfestival.com, are being offered the opportunity to enter a free prize draw to win a host of prizes including dinner, bed and breakfast at the Sysonby Knoll Hotel in Melton Mowbray, a luxury hamper, a Denby dinner service, Sunday lunch at Brooksby Hall, or free tickets to this year's festival.
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Images from last year’s East Midlands Food and Drink Festival, including guest speaker Clarissa Dickson Wright
Contact
Telephone: +44 (0)1664 85 1111
Website: www.eastmidlandsfoodfestival.com
Website: www.brooksbyhall.co.uk
Website: www.goleicestershire.com
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