Ludlow Food Festival

The Original Festival for Food and Drink Lovers

Slow Food Taste Workshops - FRIDAY LINE UP

Where: Beacon Rooms - Castle Gardens

The workshops are led by expert producers or chefs, touching on Slow Food principles, hear their story illustrated by food and drink.

Please note:  you will need to purchase a ticket to enter the Ludlow Food Festival to take part in these Workshops, with the exception of the Friday and Saturday evening events.

If you are joining us for workshops on different days, please contact the Food Festival office to arrange a FREE Festival ticket for subsequent days – you can email them on: info@foodfestival.co.uk

All workshops last about an hour.

Tickets to workshops are £16 for Slow Food members, £18 for non-members.

Any enquiries relating to the workshops or membership should be sent to slowludlow@gmail.com

Friday 9th September

1pm - Forgotten Flavours of the Countryside

Chef James Sherwin lives and breathes his restaurant ‘Wild Shropshire’, where the menu never ceases to delight customers, serving enlightened plates of seasonal foraged fayre. Renowned for pushing the boundaries of menu etiquette, whilst remaining honest to the origins of nature’s true flavours, be prepared to be wowed by this accomplished talent, as he keeps you on the tip of your taste buds throughout this taste adventure. You will experience, amongst other dishes, Wagyu Denver with Elderflower soy and Pork Belly with Quince Kishinev.

Accompanied with a glass of Gooseberry and Kelp kombucha.

£18 + booking fee - Non Members
£16 + booking fee - Members

TO BOOK, please visit the Slow Food stand in the Castle Gardens area of the Castle. Online bookings have now closed.

3pm Exquisitely Smoked

Bee and Tony will talk through their 3 award winning smoked and cured salmon products and the passion and taste expectations they put in to their products. They will discuss a brief history of Macneil’s Smokehouse, you will see some salmon slicing techniques, see some of their equipment and ingredients and most importantly taste! A little teaser of a new product will be on sample too.

Accompanied with a glass of white wine.

£18 + booking fee - Non Members
£16 + booking fee - Members

TO BOOK, please visit the Slow Food stand in the Castle Gardens area of the Castle. Online bookings have now closed.

5pm SPICE with Mark Diacono

Please note, unfortunately this workshop has been cancelled due to personal circumstances.

 

7pm A Tale of Three Shropshire Gin Distillers  

Shropshire has a booming distilling industry with multiple distilleries, however, only three embody the values of Slow Food. You will be guided on a journey through the county’s best gins, rums and other spirits and will learn the stories of foraging for local botanicals, producing base spirit from scratch to reusing and recycling by-products as well as tasting multiple samples and three most delicious cocktails.

£18 + booking fee - Non Members
£16 + booking fee - members

Please note that entry for this workshop (only) is by the external door to the Beacons Room to the right of the Castle entrance and does not require a Festival entrance ticket.

TO BOOK, please visit the Slow Food stand in the Castle Gardens area of the Castle. Online bookings have now closed.

 

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