15/07/10….Give your taste buds a treat at Thame and County show (Status: Press release)
HEAD for the Local Flavours marquee at this year?s Oxfordshire County and Thame Show on July 31, to feast on strawberries, wine, artisan breads and much more, all produced in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.
Give your tastebuds the time of their life with spicy chutneys and hot mustards, luscious cordials and fruity gins, squidgy cheeses and flavour-packed meat pies.
What?s your verdict on Oxfordshire?s school dinners? Food with Thought, the county council?s catering service, is demonstrating dishes made with ingredients from local farms.
Have a go on the Taste of Adventure. Explore the five senses we use to eat: sight, sound, touch, taste and smell in this game run by Slow Food Oxon.
More than 30 stalls in the Local Flavours marquee are selling jams, biscuits, breakfast cereals, organic meat and vegetables, cold pressed rapeseed oil, yoghurts, quince preserves and delicatessen goods.
Top Oxfordshire producers in the Local Flavours marquee include:
Supreme Sausages from Chalgrove with their 12 varieties of sausage ? taste before you buy
Shaken Oak Mustards from Hailey, Witney with award-winning mustards and preserves
Oxford Cheese Company with squidgy and delicious cheeses
Brightwell Vineyard from Shillingford Hill, Wallingford with award-winning wines
Millets Farm Centre from Marcham with strawberries and other soft fruit, summer salads and vegetables
The Old Farmhouse Bakery from Steventon with artisan breads, cakes, buns, quiches and pies
The Granary Delicatessen from Watlington with a cornucopia of speciality foods
Quince Products from Aston Rowant with the county?s unique quince cheeses and preserves
Joining them in the Local Flavours marquee are many Buckinghamshire-based producers, Gloucestershire?s top cheese-maker Simon Weaver Cotswold Organic Dairy and Berkshire?s Sheepdrove Organic Farm.
The Local Flavours marquee is also the place to find out how to get funding from the LEADER programme for food, agriculture, community and forestry projects in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.
The Local Flavours marquee is run by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (BBO) Food Group CIC www.local-food.net to showcase an amazing range of delicious summer food.
BBO Food Group gives marketing and trade development support to food and drink producers from the three counties, publishes a highly regarded Food Guide, and organises the Local Flavours Festival. Funding comes from Oxfordshire County Council, Cherwell District Council and The Midcounties Co-operative.
Patrice Garrigues, Ethical Trading Manager at The Midcounties Co-operative, says: ?As a member-owned, community retailer we believe in local sourcing and supporting local suppliers. Our Local Harvest scheme enables us to offer quality local products sourced from a 40 miles radius in our food stores from various suppliers. By supporting smaller suppliers it strengthens our relationships with the communities in which they operate. And reducing food miles ? the distance that food travels from field to fork ? is also better for the environment.?
