About the festival
The first ever Letchworth Food Festival took place last summer, serving up a feast of fun in the heart of the Garden City. Thousands of visitors young and old, were attracted by the mouth-watering array of food on offer, gaining culinary insights from professional chefs, discovering the joy of purchasing food and learning to cook it at home.
The special event, which enjoyed glorious weather throughout the weekend, was hosted by Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, and featured:
- A number of food traders offering tastings and selling their produce including Heavenly Cakes, Hertford Honey, Jamie at Home, Jimmy’s Farm and many more;
- opportunities to talk with the traders and learn more about locally produced food;
- cookery demonstrations by professional chefs, including Phil Thompson, Harry Kodagoda, Sally Bee, in a fully equipped professional kitchen in Leys Square;
- North Herts College students demonstrating newly-acquired cooking skills;
- food to buy and take home;
- a wide range of traders offering food to be eaten by all the family for brunch or lunch to include soups, stews, hot and cold salads, goat curry, paella, chocolate, handmade fruit cream ices and other mouth-watering ‘goodies’;
- activities for children.
‘Read all about it!’ – Letchworth Food Festival 2010 in the news…
Some stories which ‘hit the press’ in 2010 (you may need to register for The Comet & The Advertiser stories):
Food festival proves a hit
New-look square hosts 12 hours of cookery demonstrations
The Comet, Letchworth GC & Baldock – 27 May 2010 (pages 10 & 11)
Festival is a tribute to the Garden City
The Comet, Letchworth GC & Baldock – 27 May 2010 (page 18)
Crowds flock for rock-er and rolls
The Hitchin Advertiser – 26 May 2010 (page 3)
Cooking in the streets
Food and drink editor Richard Cawthorne surveys the menu for Letchworth’s first food festival
Hertfordshire Life – 17 May 2010
See the photos!
Click here to browse through snaps of the 2010 Letchwprth Food Festival.
Are you hungry for more?
Due to the outstanding success of the maiden Letchworth Food Festival, we are looking into another event in 2012 or beyond.
If you would like to get involved as a trader, find out about what’s on nearer the time, or have some ideas to suggest please register your interest here.