York Food Festival

Hosted by: York

The event will start on: 17 Sep 10

And will end on: 26 Sep 10

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http://www.yorkfoodfestival.com/index.htm

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York Festival of Food and Drink is a 'not for profit' organisation, providing a 10 day city-wide event to promote local and regional food and drink.

Monies raised, from market stands and tickets sales, help to cover the costs of our community programme.

Our focus:
To transform food culture in York and North Yorkshire by promoting local food production.
Alongside Independent York food retailers, with quality wines from around the world, plus whisky and other traditional quality beverages, we will put our Festival in and around York's unique historic venues.

Our purpose:
To educate minds and palates in a variety of non-threatening and fun ways, which include taste workshops, cookery workshops, lunches, dinners and demonstrations. The Festival has a mission to educate both children and adults about cooking, nutrition and other food issue like food miles, fair-trade and the realities of farming.

We want to re-establish the dinning table as the focal point of family and social cohesion.

To draw attention to York as a gastronomic gateway to the wealth of tastes and flavours that can be found in Yorkshire.
To recognise our Food Heroes, who are the chefs and suppliers in our area, and/or supporters of the Festival, who share our values.

The Festival naturally seeks to promote the restaurant scene of York, but we also have a wider aspiration to help transform the city in the early evening, by encouraging eating, arts and social activity in the city centre between 5 and 7pm.