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Abergavenny Food Festival
The Abergavenny Food Festival is an annual food festival which takes place in the town of Abergavenny in Wales each September. It was listed as 1 of 50 Best Summer Festivals by ''The Independent'' newspaper. History The festival was founded in 1999, by two local farmers, Chris Wardle and Martin Orbach, in the aftermath of the BSE crisis. The 2019 festival was attended by over 35,000 people. No festival is planned in 2020. Over the years the festivals celebrity guests have included: Valentine Warner, Tom Parker Bowles, Mitch Tonks, Michael Winner, Matt Tebbutt, Mark Hix, Marguerite Patten OBE, Levi Roots, Keith Floyd, John Burton Race, Valentine Warner, Jay Rayner, Pete Brown, Jason Atherton, Henry Dimbleby, George Alagiah, Franco Taruschio, Fergus Henderson, Christophe Langree, Antonio Carluccio, Anthony Bourdain, Allegra McEvedy, Jose Pizarro, Alex James, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Fergus Henderson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Asma Khan, Organisation The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food Festival
A food festival is a festival, that uses food, often produce, as its central theme. These festivals have always been a means of uniting communities through celebrations of harvests and giving thanks for a plentiful growing season. History Food Festivals throughout the world are often based on traditional farming techniques, seasons Food festivals are related to food culture of an area, whether through the preparation of food served or the time period in which the festival is celebrated. Food festivals are considered strengthening agents for local cultural heritage, and simultaneously celebrate this cultural heritage while also commodifying it for a killer national or international audience. While historically aligned with culturally significant food harvesting periods, contemporary food festivals are usually associated with businesses entities or nonprofit organizations and engage a great deal of marketing for their festivals, since their success is measured off how much reve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Atherton
Jason Atherton (born 6 September 1971) is an English chef and restaurateur. His flagship restaurant Pollen Street Social gained a Michelin Star in 2011, its opening year. He was the Executive Chef at Gordon Ramsay's Michelin starred ''Maze'' in London until 30 April 2010. In 2014 he co-hosted the Sky Living TV series ''My Kitchen Rules''. Early life and education Atherton was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The son of a Skegness hotelier and her joiner husband, Atherton ran away to London at the age of 16 while his parents were on holiday. After training at Boston College, Lincolnshire, he spent six weeks training with the Army Catering Corps, which he hated. Career Jason Atherton has worked with chefs including Pierre Koffmann, Nico Ladenis, and Marco Pierre White. He joined the Gordon Ramsay Group in 2001 as the executive chef for Verre in Dubai. In 2005, Jason returned to the UK and opened ''Maze''. In November 2007, Atherton and Gordon Ramsay oversaw the launch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Market Hall - Abergavenny - Panoramic (18874803900)
Market is a term used to describe concepts such as: *Market (economics), system in which parties engage in transactions according to supply and demand *Market economy * Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market Geography * Märket, an island shared by Finland and Sweden Art, entertainment, and media Films * ''Market'' (1965 film), 1965 South Korean film * ''Market'' (2003 film), 2003 Hindi film *'' The Market: A Tale of Trade'', a Turkish film Television * ''The Market'' (TV series), a New Zealand television drama Brands or enterprises *The Market (company), a concept grocery store *The Market, a specialized Safeway store Types of economic markets * Agricultural marketing * Emerging market * Energy market * Financial market *Foreign exchange market * Grey market, commodity trade outside of original producer's distribution channel * Media market, geographic area with mostly the same set of media outlets *Niche market * Open market, a free trade economy; the antonym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-profit
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in contrast with an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners. A nonprofit is subject to the non-distribution constraint: any revenues that exceed expenses must be committed to the organization's purpose, not taken by private parties. An array of organizations are nonprofit, including some political organizations, schools, business associations, churches, social clubs, and consumer cooperatives. Nonprofit entities may seek approval from governments to be tax-exempt, and some may also qualify to receive tax-deductible contributions, but an entity may incorporate as a nonprofit entity without securing tax-exempt status. Key aspects of nonprofits are accountability, trustworthiness, honesty, and openness to eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Christopher Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall (born 14 January 1965) is an English celebrity chef, television personality, journalist, food writer, and campaigner on food and environmental issues. Fearnley-Whittingstall hosted the ''River Cottage'' series on the UK television channel Channel 4, in which audiences observe his efforts to become a self-reliant, downshifted farmer in rural England; Fearnley-Whittingstall feeds himself, his family and friends with locally produced and sourced fruits, vegetables, fish, eggs, and meat. He has also become a campaigner on issues related to food production and the environment, such as fisheries management and animal welfare. Fearnley-Whittingstall established River Cottage HQ in Dorset in 2004, and the operation is now based at Park Farm near Axminster in Devon. An organic smallholding, HQ is also the hub for a broad range of courses and events, and home to the River Cottage Cookery School. Fearnley-Whittingstall continues to teach an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarissa Dickson Wright
Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright (24 June 1947 – 15 March 2014) was an English celebrity cook, television personality, writer, businesswoman, and former barrister. She was best known as one of the ''Two Fat Ladies'', with Jennifer Paterson, in the television cooking programme. She was an accredited cricket umpire and one of only two women to become a Guild Butcher. Early life Dickson Wright was born in St John's Wood, London, the youngest of four children. Her father, Arthur Dickson Wright, was a surgeon to the Royal Family who had served with the Colonial Service at Singapore, and her mother, Aileen Mary (Molly) Bath,'' Who's Who 2012'' was from "a well known and respected Singapore family".Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, vol. 58, issue 4, July 1976, p. 333, "Arthur Dickson Wright, MS FRCS" She said her father was an alcoholic who subjected his wife and children to verbal and physical ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex James (musician)
Steven Alexander James, FRSA (born 21 November 1968) is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the rock band Blur, he has also played with temporary bands Fat Les, Me Me Me, WigWam and Bad Lieutenant. Music career James was born in Boscombe, Bournemouth, and attended the state grammar school Bournemouth School, where he started playing in bands. He credits the Beatles with inspiring him to pursue music: "I was off school with chickenpox when John Lennon was shot in 1980. I spent the week watching a VHS recording of the Beatles film Help!, which was broadcast on TV the day he died. I still watch it once a year. Then I bought a Beatles songbook and a guitar, figured out the chord shapes and started strumming and singing along. I never looked back." In 1988, James met future bandmate Graham Coxon at Goldsmiths College, where James studied French. Introductions with Coxon's old school friend Damon Albarn and Dave Rowntree soon took place; at the time Albarn and R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allegra McEvedy
Allegra Sarah Bazzett McEvedy MBE (born November, 23 1970) is an English chef, broadcaster and writer. Early life McEvedy was born and raised in Hammersmith. Interviewed by '' The New York Times'', she said, "Mine was all about what we’d had for breakfast and the great ice cream we had in Florence that afternoon." Her father Colin McEvedy was a consultant psychiatrist, historian and writer; her mother was a writer. She was privately educated at St Paul's Girls' School, attending the school at the same time as Daisy Garnett, later food columnist of '' The Observer''. Career McEvedy completed her classical French training in 1991 at the Cordon Bleu in London. She also obtained the Higher Certificate from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust. She later worked at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill, Green's, The Belvedere in Holland Park, Alfred's, the Groucho Club and The River Café. She got her first Head Chef position at Tom Conran's restaurant The Cow, in Notting Hill, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Michael Bourdain (; June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. Bourdain was a 1978 graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of many professional kitchens during his career, which included several years spent as an executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan. He first became known for his bestselling book '' Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly'' (2000). Bourdain's first food and world-travel television show '' A Cook's Tour'' ran for 35 episodes on the Food Network in 2002 and 2003. In 2005, he began hosting the Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure programs '' Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations'' (2005–2012) and ''The Layover'' (2011–2013). In 2013, he began a three-season run as a judge on ''The Taste'' and consequently switched his travelogue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio, OBE OMRI (; 19 April 1937 – 8 November 2017) was an Italian chef, restaurateur and food expert, based in London. He was called "the godfather of Italian gastronomy", with a career of more than 50 years. He is perhaps best remembered for his television appearances, including his partnership with fellow Italian chef Gennaro Contaldo, and their BBC Two television series '' Two Greedy Italians''. Early life Antonio Carluccio was born in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno in the Campania region, the fifth of six children of Giovanni Carluccio, a stationmaster from a family of Benevento bookbinders, and his wife Maria, ''née'' Trivellone. He moved with his father's job when he was young and lived in Castelnuovo Belbo and Borgofranco d'Ivrea. Living in the northwest, an area with great vegetation, as a child he would hunt through the forest for different mushrooms and fungi with his father. After leaving school he did his compulsory one year of military service in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Langree
Christophe may refer to: People * Christophe (given name), list of people with this name * Christophe (singer) (1945–2020), French singer * Cristophe (hairstylist) (born 1958), Belgian hairstylist * Georges Colomb (1856–1945), French comic strip artist and botanist who published under the pseudonym Christophe People with the surname Christophe * Didier Christophe (born 1956), retired professional French footballer, managing Pau FC * Henri Christophe (1767–1820), Haitian Revolution leader Other uses * Christophe (Amsterdam), restaurant in Amsterdam, The Netherlands * 1698 Christophe Events January–March * January 1 – The Abenaki tribe and Province of Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts colonists sign a treaty, ending the conflict in New England. * January 4 – The Palace of Whitehall in London, Kingdom of England ..., asteroid {{Disambiguation, human name, surname Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fergus Henderson
Fergus Henderson (born 31 July 1963) is an English chef who founded the restaurant St John (restaurant), St John on St John Street in London. He is often noted for his use of offal and other neglected cuts of meat as a consequence of his philosophy of The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating, nose to tail eating. Following in the footsteps of his parents, Brian and Elizabeth Henderson, he trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London. Most of his dishes are derived from traditional British cuisine and the wines are all French. Chefs Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali have both praised Henderson for his dishes, which optimise British food while making full use of the whole animal. The critic A. A. Gill retracted his initial hostility to St John in the ''Sunday Times''. Fergus is married to fellow chef Margot Henderson; the couple have three children. Career Henderson had no formal training in cooking, and has never worked under any other chef. In 1992 Hender ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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