Features
Melksham Food & Drink Festival Premier Night
The Town Hall, Melksham
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 Film: Julie and Julia
Melksham Assembly Hall
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Family Fun Day & Teddy Bears Picnic
Kings Park Children’s Centre
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Milk Churn Race
The heats for the Milk Churn Race will start at 12.15pm and run throughout the day.
Tea Dance
The Assembly Hall
Come and waltz, tango, cha-cha-cha and quickstep at our traditional Tea Dance with music from Morning Glory.
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Who’s involved
 Duncan Mackay author of Eat Wild!
Come along and meet Duncan Mackay author of Eat Wild at the Festival Food Fair on Sunday 4th July 2010
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 Sian Blunos author of Cooking for Coco
Sian Blunos will be appearing at King’s Park Children’s Centre on Saturday 26th June
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 Dee La Vardera - Writer in Residence
Dee is a local writer and member of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.
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MELKSHAM FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL 2010
Waitrose – headline sponsor for the 2010 Melksham Food & Drink Festival
The second Melksham Food & Drink Festival was launched in style on Thursday 21st January at Well House Manor in Melksham. It was with great delight that Cllr Pam Wiltshire Chairman of the Festival steering group announced that Waitrose has agreed to be Headline Sponsor of the Food Festival, Waitrose will be moving into Melksham in March.
The Melksham Food and Drink Festival, 2010, will take place from 25th June to 4th July at various venues in and around the Melksham area and will culminate in the Festival Food Fair in the Market Place in Melksham. This is the second Melksham Food & Drink festival, the inaugural event, held last year, was an overwhelming success.
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'Melksham is a fantastic town with a great community, so it’s very special to be supporting the second Melksham Food & Drink Festival. Our sponsorship shows our commitment to the town, and is a great opportunity for us to share our passion for excellent food and drink with visitors from the area' |
Check the website for updates and new events as they come in over the course of the next few months. We look forward to seeing everyone again on the 25th June 2010 for an even bigger Melksham Food & Drink Festival!
If you would like to get involved please contact Melksham Town Council using the details opposite or download one of the forms below:
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» PARTICIPANTS BOOKING FORM
Melksham Food & Drink Recipe Book
Do you have an original recipe idea? If you do, why not submit it for entry in the Melksham Food & Drink Recipe Book. The steering group for the 2010 Melksham Food & Drink Festival are putting together a local recipe book that will be on sale during the festival.
Recipes to go in the book will be selected fr208om submitted entries. There are 3 criteria headings the recipes must be; Healthy, Quick & Simple or a Special Treat. There are 3 age categories; Children up to 11, Young People 12-18, Adults 18+.
To submit a recipe, simply choose a criteria that your recipe fits into and email it to: maggie.giddings@melkshamtown.co.uk with your; name, address, telephone number and age category.
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Cllr Pam Wiltshire and Peter Vaughan launching the Melksham Food & Drink Recipe Book |
You must declare that the recipe is an original and has not been copied directly from any other source.
The Melksham Food & Drink Committee cannot guarantee that all entries will be included.
The Closing date for entries to be submitted by is FRIDAY 28TH MAY 2010. For more information contact Maggie Giddings at the Town Hall on 01225 704187.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM MELKSHAM FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL 2009…
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Martin Blunos and Peter Vaughan demonstrating on stage on Sunday 3rd – pictures courtesy of Melksham Independent Newspapers |
The sun shone, children played and the delicious smell of newly cooked food emanated from the Market Place in Melksham on the 3rd May at the start of the first Melksham Food and Drink Festival.
The Festival roared into life with a fabulous Festival Food Fair which took over the Market Place and the grounds of Melksham House. Nearly two dozen food stands gave visitors and locals alike the chance to taste a wide variety of foods from pork and bacon to springbok and kangaroo, cheese and honey to crepes and Thai cuisine, as well as local beers and wines.
At the same time in Melksham’s Assembly Hall, Celebrity Chef Martin Blunos and Bistro and Cookery School Patron Peter Vaughan could be found demonstrating some great dishes all made with local food, some of which was sponsored by local suppliers Lovejoys and Church Farm Meats.
Students from the George Ward School found themselves in the kitchen under the guidance of Martin making carrot soup, which was later sold in the ArtHouse Café at lunch time. Before his demonstrations, Martin Blunos then went on stage to present the prizes for the ‘Day in the Life of a Carrot’, a competition which had been organised in conjunction with local fruiterers Lovejoys. Owner Neil Mortimer explained to the audience that the children from several local schools had written story boards and painted pictures and as part of their prizes, each of the winners was given a bunch of new carrots! Pictures were on display at the ArtHouse Café throughout the week.
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Milk Churn Race and the Mayor of Melksham Cllr Richard Wiltshire with the winners. Pictures courtesy of Melksham Independent Newspapers |
The Market Place also saw the running of the first Milk Churn Race and although there were only a small number of entries for this inaugural race, fun was had by all!
Other events continued throughout the week, in various venues and restaurants in the area and the Assembly Hall again played host to several food demonstrations from Cake Icing to Thai Cookery. And even the local Scouts doing a cook off with Peter Vaughan at the Melksham Scout hut.
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