Northmoor Trust

Children's Food Festival: What's On
Weekend 27 & 28 June 2009

• The Cooking Circle, with inspiring demonstrations and hands-on cooking.

• The Farmers’ Market, with local produce from within a 30 mile radius.

• The Market Place, with produce from further afield, cookware and books.

• Taste the World, with food from many cultures to eat on the spot.

• The Celebrity Chef Cookery Theatre: chefs demonstrate meals designed to inspire children and families to cook and they invite children to help out.

• Splat Cooking, make home-made pasta using fresh ingredients and take it home to cook for your tea - you may get a little messy but that’s half the fun! www.splatcooking.net

• The Belling Kids’ Kitchen - run by cookery writer Amanda Grant: children prepare all kinds of food, including roasted vegetable pilaff, summer pudding and banana bread.

• Waitrose Education Pod
  Sow, grow, cook, eat! See and taste unusual salad leaves and make a scrummy salad dressing to take home with you! Or why not make paper pots and sow seeds as well to grow at home?
  

• The Chocolate Tent Green and Black's chocolate tastings. Willy Wonka recipe making with the Roald Dahl Museum team. Demos by the UK’s top chocolatiers.

• BBC Here’s One I Made Earlier!
  Pretend to be a celebrity chef and be filmed on the BBC Oxford Bus. Strictly for children!
  

• The Q&A Tent
  Friendly, informal sessions - put your burning questions to the food experts. Compered by Georgia Coleridge and Karen Doherty, authors of Seven Secrets of Successful Parenting. Speakers include Annabel Karmel, Gill Rapley (on baby-led weaning) and Emma – the youngest pig farmer in Britain.
  

• The Debate: Should celebrities promote junk food?
  The use of sports and movie stars to promote high fat, salt and sugar foods is on the rise. Many celebrities have been the face of junk food, but some stars actively insist that their image is not sold to certain types of food companies. Find out what school children and famous folk think – and get a chance to chip in with your thoughts. Debate chaired by Sheila Dillon, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme.
  

• What’s inside?
  The Food Magazine tells you all about additives. Cartoon workshop with professional artist, Additives Tombola and puppet making.
  

• The Smell Tent: Chefs Adopt A School from the Academy of Culinary Arts will once again be bringing their brilliant taste workshop to the Festival - guiding children through the four tastes and the five senses. You can also test your noses with the herb table and try out the blindfold vegetable identification game.
  

• The Early Years Area: Hands-on cooking for 2-5s with Pattacakes Cookery School, Chill Out and Play Area, breast-feeding advice and seed planting with Oxford Botanic Gardens.
  

• The Field to Fork Area, with sausage making, sustainable seafood cookery, bicycle-powered smoothie making, vegetarian barbecues, bread making and honey tasting.

• The Food Miles Display, with ways to reduce our carbon footprint.
  

• The Grow Your Own Area, with Garden Organic - seeds and saplings to plant and take home.
  

• The Wicked Waste Area - from Wicked Waste to Wonderful Worms – come and join the Northmoor Trust’s Wild Waste Team to explore how we can all waste less, compost more and even have fun doing it. Games and activities galore.
  

• The Farm, including sheep dog demo, Hereford and Gloucester cattle, Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs, quails and baby water buffalo.
  

• Hungry Planet, What the World Eats
  A UK first. Photographs of families from 16 different countries with what they eat in an average week.
  

The Festival Management reserves the right to amend programme content and performances.

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