2008 program

• 27th September: The 2nd Children’s Slow Food day! This promises to be even a bigger event than last year! More information soon.
• 28th September: The last of this year’s Food Fairs.
• October: Provisional - Taste some apples you will never find in the supermarket.
• 27th November: La Potiniere, theme to be announced later
• December: The Creel in Dunbar. ?Christmas Inspirations?

Please come back to this page regularly to see our updates!

Past events in 2008:

• Wed. 23^rd Jan. “Passionate about Pies”. A celebration of Great British Pies, prepared by Ian Watson, owner/chef in the Bass Rock Bistro in North Berwick. After the starter there was a short intermezzo for our first AGM.
• Farm visit 16^th Feb. Richard Briggs invited us to see the new born lambs and their proud mums on a wonderful spring day, see pictures!.
• Tues. 11^th March The Glasshouse in Musselburgh.We had a great menu with duck breast and goat’s cheese, saphron mash and seabream and a lovely chocalate cheescake. To finish some nice cheeses. Great building too!
• Thursday 3rd April Scottish meal with Spanish wines! Peter & Elaine McQuade of the Garvald Inn served a lovely 5 course meal. We also enjoyed some delicious, unknown but wonderful organic Spanish wines imported direct from the producers to East Lothian. David Walls of Parades y Bonamy spoke about the wines and we all had forms to write down our comments.
• 27th April: The first North Berwick Food Fair of 2008 took place at Anchor Green near the Seabird Centre. Wonderful weather and an interesting mix of stalls brought about 1500 people to the Marquee and the bbq; at the tables on the terrace many samples of local produce were enjoyed.
• 31th of May: Our Tasty lunch in theTrinity Centre Haddington with its lovely patio was attended by 58 people although we had some competition from the Festival Parade. Paella, frittata, Ballencrieff burgers, sticky toffee pudding and meringues with fruit ice cream were on the menu.
• 20th July The Summer North Berwick Food Fair. Again there were about 1500 people enjoying the good weather and tasting and buying the food; most stall holders were almost sold out by closing-time!

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