"food fairs" news and stories

This weekend sees East Hampton, New York turned into the 2nd Hamptons Wine and Food Festival.

The organisers are promising a treat following last years success with a weekend full of parties, wine and food tasting seminars, cooking demonstrations, live competitions and a spectacular Grand Tasting on both days. If you are going then there is a 'full menu of culinary entertainment, exploring emerging wine and food trends from around the world and the region's own backyard'. Some people going by the names of Sandra Lee and Dave Lieberman are to be there too.

Not that I am going or anything but the wine/spirit tasting sessions sound wonderful - these include a Sherry & Tapas session, a Single Malt Scotch Tasting with local food pairings and a chance to sample super-premium Partida Tequila. Local wines will be in abundance too of course.

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Two more festivals occuring this coming weekend in the south of England and Wales:

Kent Game Fair - plenty of non-food things happening down near Maidstone such as rural crafts, flower displays, livestock competitions and the like, but plenty food-related, too, including food courts, local producers and a Game Cookery Threatre.

Llanwrtyd Festival of Fine Food and Drink - in Britain's smallest town, a weekend packed with the finest foods Wales has to offer. 68 exhibitors - wine, liquers, jams, chutneys, preserves, ice creams, chocolates, bread, meat and catering equipment, plus local crafts people with goods for sale and French Jazz band. And don't forget the custard pie fight!