Schedule

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Saturday

10:00 AM
Festival Begins

10:15 AM
Kids Taste Tent Opens
Bring the kids to this interactive exploration of the
senses to learn how we identify and taste foods.
Open all day long.

10:30 AM
Sophie Grigson Cooks Organic
Demo Kitchen, Waterfront Square
A favorite from the Good Food Channel, Sophie
never fails to delight and inspire!

11:00 AM
Festival Fringe Begins
Fringe Stage, Waterfront Square
Don’t miss the music and dance in the Street Food Bazaar!

Talking Gardens: GROFUN
Gardening Pavilion, Amphitheatre
Growing Real Organic Food in Urban Neighborhoods
(GROFUN) presents the Many Hands model for
starting an urban garden in your community.

12:00 PM
Granny Skills: Jam
Gardening Pavilion, Amphitheatre
Rebecca Sullivan, President of the Wandsworth Women’s
Institute and founder of Dirty Girl Kitchens, demonstrates
her grandmother’s recipe for Autumn preserves.

12:30 PM
Richard Bertinet Cooks Organic
Demo Kitchen, Waterfront Square
Owner of Bath’s Bertinet Kitchen cookery school and
bakery, his classes are consistently sold out - so make
the most of this chance to partake for free!

1:00 PM
Talking Gardens: GROFUN
Gardening Pavilion, Amphitheatre
The GROFUN team plant-up winter vegetables and
talk about growing your own at home.
Come prepared to get your hands dirty.

2:00 PM
Mitch Tonks Cooks Organic
Demo Kitchen, Waterfront Square
The West Country’s best-known fishmonger and
owner of Bristol’s Rockfish, Mitch proves that
cooking fish can be both easy and affordable.

Granny Skills: Chutney
Gardening Pavilion, Amphitheatre
Jojo Tulloh, journalist and author of Freshly Picked: Kitchen Garden Cooking in the City, teaches us how to make traditional heritage chutneys with a modern day twist.

3:00 PM
Talking Gardens: Wild Foods
Gardening Pavilion, Amphitheatre
Andy and Dave Hamilton of the critically acclaimed
‘Self-Sufficient-ish Bible’ show us simple recipes
for wild and foraged foods.

3:30 PM
Xanthe Clay Cooks Organic
Demo Kitchen, Waterfront Square
Food journalist and cookery writer for the Saturday
Telegraph, her new book “Ten Minutes to Table”
shows how to make top-notch food with no fuss.

5:00 PM
Oliver Rowe Cooks Organic
Demo Kitchen, Waterfront Square
Who better to champion local, organic produce than
BBC Food star and Chef of London’s Konstam restaurant,
which sources 80% of its ingredients from within
the area covered by the London tube?

6:00 PM
Festival Closes
Why not head to Bordeaux Quay, the UK’s first ecorestaurant,
for dinner just steps away from the Festival?

Sunday

10: 00 AM
Festival Opens

10:15 AM
Kids Taste Tent Opens
Bring the kids to this interactive exploration of the
senses to learn how we identify and taste foods.
Open all day long.

10:30 AM
Clodagh McKenna Cooks Organic
Demo Kitchen, Waterfront Square
Top Irish chef and UKTV food presenter, Clodagh cooks
from her new book “Fresh from the Sea.”

11:00 AM
Festival Fringe Begins
Fringe Stage, Waterfront Square
Don’t miss the music and dance!

Talking Gardens: Watch Your Garden Grow
Gardening Pavilion, Amphitheatre
Community activist Nick Ward explains the principles
of permaculture, and what it means for urban growers.

12:15 PM
Gill Meller Cooks Organic
Demo Kitchen, Waterfront Square
River Cottage Head Chef and Hugh Fearnley-
Whittingstall’s right hand man, Gill’s gently inspiring
style of cookery and exciting recipes are much in
demand. We’ve hooked him for one day only.

1:00 PM
Talking Gardens: Eastside Roots
Gardening Pavilion, Amphitheatre
Learn what this gardening hub in the Eastside of
Bristol is doing to connect people and plants, and how
to get involved.

2:00 PM
Valentina Harris
Demo Kitchen, Waterfront Square
Doyenne of Italian Cookery, food writer, TV presenter
and caterer to the stars, Valentina takes time out to
demonstrate some of her quick, thrifty and unfailingly
delicious recipes.

3:00 PM
Bristol Chefs Network Meeting
Bordeaux Quay, Upstairs
As a new force for a sustainable food system, the
network will identify practical steps that restaurants can
take to make their businesses more organic and
sustainable. Open to chefs only.

Talking Gardens: Wild Foods
Gardening Pavilion, Amphitheatre
Andy and Dave Hamilton of the critically acclaimed
‘Self- Sufficient-ish Bible’ show us simple recipes for
wild and foraged foods.

3:30 PM
Barny Haughton and Freddy Bird Demo Kitchen
Cook Organic, Waterfront Square
Barny Haughton the Chef/Proprietor of Bordeaux Quay,
chair of the Organic Food Awards and sustainable food
pioneer goes head to head with Freddy Bird, previously
of Bordeaux Quay and now head Chef at Bristol’s
acclaimed Lido. A celebration of the best ingredients
from Bristol and the South West.

5:00 PM
Festival Closes
Put it on your calendar for next year!