Ludlow gets ready for food festival fun
Wednesday 31st August 2011, 3:56PM BST.
People from as far afield as Australia, Cambodia and Hungary will be visiting Ludlow for the town’s food and drink festival.
Beth Heath, the festival’s operations director, said there had been interest from across the world in the event, which will be held from September 9 to 11.
She added bed and breakfast providers had already started inquiring about festival dates two years in advance so they could start taking bookings. Thousands of people are expected to visit the town over the weekend and a host of new attractions have been brought in for the 17th annual show.
A fringe festival will be held on the car park outside Ludlow Castle featuring live music and cookery demonstrations, while Michelin-starred chefs Shaun Hill, Claude Bosi and Glynn Purnell will all cook in a pop-up kitchen inside the castle. Despite train services being heavily disrupted by engineering works, extra buses have been laid on from Shrewsbury and Hereford to help people get to the festival.
Mrs Heath said: “We have people coming from Hungary, Australia and Cambodia.
“Ludlow has been fully booked up for the best part of a year for the weekend and bed and breakfast owners are already asking me about dates for the 2013 festival so they can start taking bookings.
“We have also started offering bursaries to small local businesses . . . in the hope they can build up and be in a position to be full exhibitors next year.”
More details at www.foodfestival.co.uk
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Will the organisers be providing free space to Oxfam or similar so that hunger in other parts of the world can be alleviated?
It would be a wonderful gesture if they could have done this, so raising funds to help the starving. Somehow I doubt if it even crossed their minds.
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If i remember rightly they raised funds for a charity (not sure if it was Oxfam) last year at the bag check.
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What an excellent suggestion. This country is far too obsessed with food and whilst the festival is good for the town, we should also take time to consider those less fortunate than ourselves. I also cannot see it happening, the call of the cake trail will be far too loud.
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