Flavours of 2012 Food & Drink Festival: 26th – 27th May 2012

Taking place at Henham Park near Southwold, Suffolk, Flavours of 2012 will provide visitors an experience of different flavours and textures, enjoying eating and drinking along with entertainment, all in the laid back atmosphere of a walled garden.
Enjoy the local producers area, the demos by professional chefs and wander round the farmers market style area taking in the relaxed ambiance.

This year, Flavours of 2012 food and drink festival brings together many fantastic exhibitors, and a line up of innovative and interactive programmes on cooking and eating.

Artisan Food Trail producers confirmed as taking part are:

Alder Tree
Award winning ices are handmade on their fruit farm in Suffolk to a traditional family recipe. Made with only fruit, cream and sugar, they are naturally delicious.

The Artisan Smokehouse
A small family run and owned smokehouse on the Suffolk coast producing award-winning smoked food, made in small quantities to ensure quality and freshness.

Breckland Orchard
Award winning ‘Posh Pop’. Produced with passion and available throughout the UK.

Honeysuckle Cakes
Bespoke celebration cake design based on your ideas and requests. Locally sourced ingredients used wherever possible with the addition of Hannah's homemade jam in the filling of your special cake.

For more information about the event visit the website flavoursof2012.co.uk

Letchworth Food & Garden Festival: 19th – 20th May 2012

Just a stone's throw from The Artisan Food Trail's headquarters, the Letchworth Food & Garden Festival will be taking place in the world's first garden city over the weekend of 19th – 20th May 2012.

Artisan Food Trail producers confirmed as taking part are:

Cardona & Son
A small and family run producer of the loveliest and tastiest rare breed pork - on menus in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire pubs.

Breckland Orchard
Award winning ‘Posh Pop’. Produced with passion and available throughout the UK.

Samphire
Award winning food from Norfolk smallholding.
Gary Rhodes said their rare breed sausages were the best he's ever tasted and Giles Coren gave their pork pies 10/10.

Edible Ornamentals
Situated in Chawston, Bedfordshire where market gardens are abundant and growing delicious vegetables is simply a way of life. Passionate, slightly obsessive chilli growers.

To find out more about the festival please refer to our May event listings page here

The Essex Food Show: 12th – 13th May 2012

This year The Essex Food Shows are moving to the exciting new venue of Crowne Plaza Resort Colchester, Five Lakes.

The Crowne Plaza Resort Colchester, Five Lakes is a much bigger venue, providing more space for exhibitors, hard parking for over 900 cars, plus the benefit of all the superb on-site restaurants, bars and leisure facilities of the resort.

This year's events will, as usual, be promoting a superb range of food, drinks, and kitchen accessories in the specialised event arena, with lots of quality caterers as well as the ever popular range of garden plants and furniture. All of the indoor stalls will be sited in the huge exhibition arena, while outside stalls will be sited adjacent to the arena within an attractive grassed area.

All the popular regular exhibitors will be there along with many new producers. The Essex Food Show have made a special effort to showcase as many high quality local producers as possible, with the majority of the producers having a 'taste before you buy' policy.

Among the exhibitors taking part you will find the following 
Artisan Food Trail members:

Samphire
Award winning food from Norfolk smallholding. 
Gary Rhodes said their rare breed sausages were the best he's ever tasted and Giles Coren gave their pork pies 10/10.

The Artisan Smokehouse
A small family run and owned smokehouse on the Suffolk coast producing award-winning smoked food, made in small quantities to ensure quality and freshness!


This is a great opportunity to check out a vast range of really good food and drink not usually available in your local supermarket. Rare breed meat producers, game, speciality sausages, smoked foods, fresh fruit and vegetables, pickles, preserves and sauces, cakes, chocolates, locally brewed beers and cider, plus a wide selection of wines, spirits and lots, lots more.

For more information about the event visit the website: www.theessexfoodshow.co.uk