Recap: 2006-2007 events

At the AGM in July, Sue reviewed the events held during the first year of Slow Food Bedford. As this website has only started recently, I thought it would be good to post details of those events so you can see the delicious culinary adventures we have enjoyed so far.

2006

• Napoli v Sardo (2 Sept)
• British Cheese Festival trip (30 Sept)
• The Wild, The Nut & The Berry (11 Nov)

2007

• Caribbean v African (13 Jan)
• Munch & Glug (24 Feb)
• Oyster trip (17 March)
• This is England (23 June)

Cheese trip – cancellation

Unfortunately the Slow Food Bedford outing to the British Cheese Festival is now cancelled (not enough people signed-up).  But several people from the SF Bedford group will be making their own trips west, so there will be some familiar faces amongst the fragrant stalls!

Great British Cheese Festival

Slow Food Bedford’s next event is a trip to the British Cheese Festival on 29th September at Millets Farm Centre in Oxfordshire.  As well as the attractions of the festival,  Millets Farm Centre has a food hall, fishmonger’s and many other wonderful food havens to discover.  If you would like to attend, please contact Sue as soon as possible because there will only be limited spaces available for this event.  Event details

Coming up this weekend

Ludlow Food & Drink Festival is on 7 – 9 September 2007.  Full details can be found on the website ( http://www.foodfestival.co.uk/ ).  The Slow Food Ludlow convivium is running a programme of Taste Workshops (programme attached ludlow-food-festival-tasteworkshops.pdf).

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…

One of SF Bedford’s projects is to help promote the Parkwood Orchard, on Brickhill Drive, which is open to the public.  Those members who have recently visited the site report is full of fruit.  If you want to know more about this unusual collection of trees, the Parkwood Orchard catalogue has lots of details.

Taking back life

Carlo Petrini has written a new Slow Food pamphlet called ‘Taking back life‘.  It summarises some of the current initiatives and the key themes for the Slow Food 2007 International Congress taking place in November (in Mexico).