The glorious weather for the region's annual food festival, Feast East
2010 on 5th and 6th March helped make it the biggest
and best in its 16 years' existence since it was first organised by Tastes
of Anglia back in 1994.
Thousands of visitors flocked to Chilford Hall in south-east
Cambridgeshire to enjoy food and drink from the six counties - Beds, Herts,
Cambs, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex - at c. 80 well stocked stands from
producers in the East of England. Congratulations go to Thursday Cottage of
Tiptree in Essex for the Best Dressed Stand 2010 and to The Cake Shop in
Woodbridge for the runner up
The festival was opened by celebrity chef Anton Edelmann of Anton's
Restaurant at Great Hallingbury Manor near Stansted on Friday morning
followed by one of his entertaining culinary demonstrations. In the Cookery
Theatre, many of the region's best chefs cooked top class restaurant dishes
in real time to the amazement of the audience. Galton Blackiston, star of
Market Kitchen and Great Britain Menu, visited the Festival stage to
showcase his food from Morston Hall in North Norfolk.
This year's festival was kindly supported by Anglia Regional Co-operative
Society and generously sponsored by RECAP - the Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough Waste Partnership and the Game's On Campaign from the BASC -
The British Association of Shooting and Conservation.
The Crown at Woodbridge, a boutique townhouse inn in East Suffolk donated
a two night break for the Festival prize draw won by Steve and Carole Wyatt
of Fressingfield near Eye in Suffolk and the Tastes Anglia luxury hamper
which was won by Rosemary Wilder of Felixstowe,
Suffolk
