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Bristol Food Connections announce 2016 lineup
This year’s Bristol Food Connections programme features a wide variety of events from a woman living with a cow on Anchor Square to the BBC Food & Farming Awards ceremony held in a tent on College Green.
The festival will be returning for its third year from April 29 to May 7, with participants this year including Lido chef Freddy Bird, Financial Times food writer Tim Hayward, the Telegraph’s Xanthe Clay, Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy MP, Elly Curshen of The Pear Cafe, Tom Hunt of Poco, Mitch Tonks of Spiny Lobster and Romy Gill of Romy’s Kitchen.
All cooking demos will be free and open to everyone. During the evening, the tented venue will be hosting live music, and visitors can also enjoy a street-food village and bar.
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New to this year’s festival will be the Edible Education Yurt hosting foraging masterclasses, fermenting workshops and compost teas; and the Bristol Food Card rewarding customers for shopping with Bristol’s independent restaurants and retailers from Better Food to Adelina Yard.
The best street food producers from across the South West will come together over three days, and a producers’ market will also be returning to Millennium Square and Anchor Square.
Among festival fringe highlights are:
- The east Bristol brewery tour of Moor, Arbor and Good Chemistry
- The Lakota Jerk-Off
- Eat your words – Food, culture and language exploration from UWE
- The get growing trail, foraging walks and food tours
- Food bloggers tours of Bristol
For more information, visit www.bristolfoodconnections.com
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