Businesses Pledge Support for Local Food
27 April 2007
Businesses in Eastbourne are pledging their support for local produce by signing up to this years Feastbourne, food and drink festival. Held in October, the event is due to be launched to industry leaders by the Mayor of Eastbourne on Monday.
The University of Brighton have also pledged their support for the scheme which recognises local culinary talents, and have even begun their own military style training, bringing in internationally renown military Ghurka chefs Geoff Acott and Pemba Lama.
Eastbourne Borough Council Director of Economy, Tourism & Environment, Norman Kinnish said “Sussex has a fantastic array of food and drink and Eastbourne in particular has quite a wealth of talent, from local chefs and restaurateurs, to our chefs in the making at the University’s Culinary Arts Studio. The more who join this campaign and really show what we have to offer, the better for the town and the better for our businesses.”
The University, which held fully booked master classes at last years event, hope to pass on some unconventional cookery tips to their students with a demonstration from Geoff and Pemba both from the Defence Food Service School. Both will return in October and present master classes, showing how even the harshest of surroundings should not prevent a good chef from creating five star food.
Waterfront Traders are the latest to join the scheme as well as Cooden Cellars, Campaign for Real Ale and cocktail mixology specialists Flava.
Feastbourne returns from 4 – 14 October, to pledge support and find out more about how businesses can join in, contact the Events team on 01323 415442 or visit www.feastbourne.com .