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The Steel City's relationship with food is about a whole lot more than producing quality cutlery to eat it with. This summer a gorilla gardener will show that Sheffielders can bring the sights, smells and tastes of real food growing and producing to streets and land all over the city.

Tony Carroll, founder of Garden Gorilla, uses places that you'd never imagine to grow food, just about anywhere he can. Tony said: "Garden Gorilla originally came about because of the long waiting list for allotments. We started growing food in any old land, I can't tell you where though because by nature they are unofficial!

"We're now creating instant allotments free for schools, on vacant land, and in community spaces. We don't talk about doing things, we just do them, and there is obviously a huge market out there for these as we are oversubscribed at the moment with requests, particularly from schools.

"We have now recruited a group of people from a diverse range of backgrounds, and have a network of growers throughout Yorkshire and Humber."

The Garden Gorilla will be holding growing classes at Sheffield's food festival on 4-10 July, where people can learn how to grow their own on everything from roundabouts to back gardens.

Other events at the festival include a city centre farmyard complete with DIY milking parlour, pop up restaurants, and community picnics in the city's parks.

Eddie Andrew, from Our Cow Molly ice cream, broke the world record for making the fastest ice cream at the Sheffield Food Festival 2010, working with Sheffield University. Eddie will be bringing one of his diary cows and two calves into Sheffield city centre as part of the festival.

He said: "We want people to be able to see for themselves how their food is produced. We will be bringing the actual cow 'Molly' into the city centre and doing ice cream making demonstrations with liquid nitrogen. Because of the very small ice crystals it produces, we know it makes exceptional quality ice cream.

"We are also very excited about the section of the festival market dedicated to food grown and produced in Sheffield itself. Everything from honey made in urban hives, to cupcakes and quality meat is produced in the city, and people will be able to see and buy this produce. The term 'local food' has become meaningless now, and with these products people can have real confidence about where they come from."

Chris Shaw, Sheffield City Council's Director of Health Improvement, said: "From cows in the city's busiest shopping area, to food growing in unexpected places, this is a food festival with a difference. We all love a good gourmet dinner, but this year's Sheffield Food Festival is about real people and real food."

The Sheffield Food Festival is expected to attract around 40,000 visitors to the city this summer.

On May 20, 21, 22 Tatton Park hosts a new food and drink festival, the three-day Foodies Festival will celebrate the finest food, drink and culinary talent from the area.

Visitors will experience, celebrate and learn about the finest food, drink and culinary talent. The festival joins a line up of seven Foodies Festivals taking place across the UK this summer.

Highlights Include:

• Chefs Theatre: The regions top chefs will cook their favourite signature dishes live, passing on hints and tips. The line up includes: Tim Bilton of The Butchers Shop (as seen on Great British Menu); Stuart Thompson of Harvey Nichols, Stuart Collins of Michael Caines at Abode; Christopher Holland of The Alderly Edge Hotel; Mornal Musa of Ning Restaurant, Robert Owen Brown of The Mark Addy and Mary Ellen of Aumbry.

• Pop-up Cook School: Visitors will enjoy hands-on cooking and tasting sessions, with guidance from top chefs and food experts.

• Cooking with Kids: Masterclasses for budding young chefs and their families.

• Drinks Masterclass Theatre: Mixing and shaking, nosing and tasting sessions where visitors are led through the complexities of gin, rum, speciality beer, wine and cocktails.

• Speciality and local exhibitors: Visitors can sample and buy exclusive ingredients from over 100 food and drink producers. More information available on request.

• NEW Great Taste Market: Featuring stallholders whose products have won a prestigious Great Taste Award in the last three years

• Restaurant Village: Visitors can indulge in dishes from around the world

• Bar Pagoda Tents: Visitors can enjoy a glass of bubbly or seasonal cocktail made by expert mixologists.

Foodies Director Sue Hitchen commented:

"Foodies Festivals have proved to be an incredible success. We have a fantastic opportunity to bring Foodies Festivals to areas that have a wealth of fantastic producers and a great line up of chefs to showcase. It is a great opportunity to bring these features to people who love food and want to celebrate it.

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The Ship Wandsworth restaurant review I’ve eaten a couple of times at The Ship Wandsworth – the flagship pub that is part of the 244-strong Young’s pub company – and the plan was to bid Dave Ahern a fond farewell in his first chef’s position there. By bid, I mean hurl abuse at him whilst... Read MoreThe Ship Wandsworth is a post from: Grant Hawthorne


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The Rome wine festival takes place on the 7th and 8th of May, 2011 at the Citta del Gusto.

The Roma wine festival is a professional event open to the general public and offers an excellent opportunity to broaden ones knowledge of Italian wine.

The Roma region has some very special wines including Est di Montefiascone and Frascati. Frascati is a delicious white wine which is wonderful when served cooled with aperitifs. Both are founded on Malvasia and Trebbiano grapes and come in sweet and dry versions. Frascati, know to the Roman’s as the golden wine, has been produced in the area for over two thousand years, safe to say it has passed the test of time!

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FEATURING- Jo Wood's And Arthur Potts Dawson's Mrs Paisley's Lashings Pop Up Restaurant A celebration of extraordinary food and drink that has been sustainably and ethically produced, the Real Food Festival will again be packed with 500 of the finest artisan food producers and so much more. New for 2011, alongside the chef theatre and cookery school, visitors will be able to get more hands-on experience at butchery and artisan food workshops, pick their own tea in a Cornish botanical garden, keep the kids entertained in the Taste Experience tent, learn more about cheese, wine and chocolate with special talks, demos and tastings.

Held each May at Earls Court the Real Food Festival gives visitors the chance to see, smell, taste and buy the most wonderful food directly from the producers who make it, as well as learn from experts and professionals about the food they eat. The ever-popular Real Food Theatre will again be packed with top chefs including Giorgio Locatelli, Jason Atherton and Valentine Warner and the Real Food Cookery-school offers both children and adults the chance to hone their skills in the kitchen.

Jo Wood and Arthur Potts Dawson will be opening the doors of their lavish pop-up restaurant Mrs Paisley's Lashings at the Real Food Festival this year for a special night-time dining experience. The duo's aim is to highlight the importance of eating in a more eco-conscious and sustainable way - but, of course, with a generous helping of glamour, style and rock 'n' roll. The combination of Jo, Arthur and the Real Food Festival is a natural one. Arthur is a familiar face on the chef-demo theatre at the festival and contributor to the - brand new this year - Real Food Cook Book; Jo is a convert to an organic way of life as a result of illness which led her to making everything in her and her family's life organic, ecologically attentive and as sustainable as possible.

Also new for this year and giving visitors a genuine real food experience, the butcher's institution Allen's of Mayfair will be hosting a Butchery Demo Theatre, imparting some of the skills and knowledge built-up over their 120 year history. The demonstrations will include sessions on how to butcher Lamb, Beef, Pigs and more, four times daily, as well as the Allen's of Mayfair stall for visitors to purchase some of their exceptional produce.

Britain officially now has more artisan cheese makers than France, and for the first time some of the UK's best will be collected together alongside their international cousins in one dedicated area of cheese celebration. Throughout the weekend the esteemed "La Cave a Fromage" from South Kensington will be running cheese tastings, demos, workshops and talks on the mysterious art of cheese production.

The roll call continues with The School of Artisan Food who will be offering the unique opportunity to learn about what it takes to be a truly skilled artisan food-maker and how to apply these skills back home from their presentation zone.

Just in case the food, the chefs, the classes, livestock and dancing sheep at the festival aren't enough, there will also be a 'Kids Taste Experience Tent' hosted by the Youth Food Movement, another addition for 2011. Specially designed to engage and delight kids with food, there will be workshops giving younger visitors the chance to learn how to make butter and bread or shuck oysters. Garden Organic will also be there with their 'Grow Your Own' workshops - popular with both green fingered adults and children.

And after taking in everything the festival has to offer a restorative tipple and a taste of the Suffolk Coast will be provided by Adnams Brewery at their fantastic Boat Bar, serving the legendary Broadside beer along with hand selected wines.