Abergavenny Food Festival (Wales, UK)

This year's Abergavenny Food Festival was a big success.  With an amazing selection of chef demos, speakers and food based companies from around Britain and beyond, it was a weekend to remember.

Take a look at all our photos on The Abergavenny Food Festival Album 

Here are TSO's standouts for the weekend:

Best Demo

The Fabulous Baker Brothers

Brothers Tom and Henry are now filming their 2nd season of their successful show, and it is clear why.  Their personalities and humor just radiate off the stage throughout the demonstration.  The crowd participation with kneading the bread, singing of Unchained Melodies and a special way of measuring out flour made the demo beyond entertaining and these two a certain household name in the culinary world for many years to come.

Best Stand
hada del cafe
Martina truly is the Coffee Fairy, and her enthusiasm for all things wonderful shows in everything she does.  Her company was founded in 2007 from delicious coffee beans harvested in northern Nicaragua, but it is the inspiration behind the coffee that makes her story special. She raises money for better education and improving the community in the towns she works with. 

The coffe doesn't fail on any level, winning Great Taste Awards in 2009 and now being carried in Harvey Nichols.  We wish her much success now and in the years to come!

Best Talk

The Food of Spain
Claudia Roden with Michael Jacobs

Claudia Roden talks to the Andalucian-based travel writer Michael Jacobs about her five year immersion in the regional cuisines of Spain which has produced yet another extraordinary volume in her chronicle of the food and peoples of the Mediterranean basin. Claudia Roden fascinating story fuses together food traditions with cultural heritage and history.