A magnificent seven reasons to visit the 2007 Herefordshire Food Festival

Further details of the second annual Flavours of Herefordshire Food Festival have been revealed in a new leaflet featuring all the key ingredients which will go into making this one of the UK’s biggest and best food events during the course of 2007.

Scheduled to take place at Hereford Racecourse over the weekend of October 27 and 28, the Flavours of Herefordshire Food Festival will once again reflect the unique links between one of the most unspoilt regions of Britain and the food and drink it produces.

Last year's inaugural Herefordshire Food Festival was hailed a great success by the organisers, who welcomed more than five and a half thousand visitors to the Racecourse in just two days, and who now see this event not only as a showcase for locally produced food and drink but also as a permanent fixture on the Herefordshire calendar.

Jane Lewis, Herefordshire Council’s cultural services manager, said: “Best-selling cookery writer Sophie Grigson, who wowed the crowds last year, will be making a welcome return again in 2007.

“Her involvement is highlighted within the new leaflet as one of seven good reasons to come along to the Racecourse to enjoy the slow life for a couple of days,” she added.

Other reasons include the Food Pavilions, where it will be possible to meet the people who rear, grow, make and sell some of he finest produce in the UK. More than 100 local, artisan producers have been lined up to fill the Pavilions with a mouth-watering array of food and drink which has clocked up the smallest number of food miles possible.

While local and celebrity chefs cook up a storm in the Food Theatre, youngsters will be able to join in a host of hands-on activities in the Food Fun area.

A local Farmer's Market will give everyone the chance to try and buy fresh foods straight from the fields and the choice of Street Food for those on-the-go will range from hot chestnuts and rare breed pork sausages, to organic and gluten free foods.

The bid to establish a Slow Food Convivium within Herefordshire, meanwhile, not only complements the Flavours of Herefordshire scheme as a whole, but will also be reflected at the Food Festival by a Slow Food Herefordshire area which will send out the message “Buy local, fresh and seasonal”.

Copies of the latest Flavours of Herefordshire Food Festival leaflet can be obtained free of charge by telephoning 01432 260621 or visit the website at http://www.visitherefordshire.co.uk/ for further details.

For further information, please contact Jane Lewis, cultural services manager, VisitHerefordshire, telephone 01432 383068 or email jlewis2@herefordshire.gov.uk