BEVERLEY FOOD FESTIVAL
GETS COOKING
All the ingredients are being mixed together for the fourth annual Beverley Food Festival, on Sunday October 4th 2009. Organised by Beverley Town Council, the event will see the Market Place come alive with the tempting tastes and alluring aromas from upwards of seventy stalls, which will be selling local produce from the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Last year around 10,000 people visited the festival, with many stall holders selling out before the end of the day and having to replenish their stocks with crops taken, quite literally, straight from the field and placed on stalls. Alongside promoting local food, it is also hoped that the event will give a boost to businesses within the town, which may also be feeling the financial pinch.
A new element of the event will be the first official Beverley Local Food Awards. Taking place as an appetiser to the main course, these are to be held in the week before the festival and will see many of the stall holders entering their produce into a range of categories, to see which the judges choose to be the best on offer.
