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Friday 23, Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 September 2016 cockermouth

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Welcome to Taste Cumbria 2016, Contents and welcome to Cockermouth, 4. Meet the experts the town where this food We take a look at the festival began. local experts sharing their knowledge and skills at this Around 40,000 people came here last year to years festival enjoy everything the event had to offer, and they put a fantastic £1.9 million into the local 7. Demonstration Stage economy. When you hear figures like that, it Be inspired at one of the becomes clear that Taste Cumbria is achieving free to attend culinary what it set out to do. demonstrations being held throughout the festival Taste Cumbria has You may or may not know that this festival was launched following the Cumbrian floods of 2009. 11. Taste sensation fantastic support Defra, the Department for the Environment, Food Simon Rogan is back at Taste from its partners. and Rural Affairs, wanted to keep Cockermouth and with his incredibly popular pop Cumbria on the map, while businesses got back on up restaurant their feet, so provided the funding to launch Taste The festival is organised in Cumbria. 12. Festival fast guide association with Allerdale I hoped those devastating floods would never Useful pieces of information happen again, but then Storm Desmond hit to help you make the most of Borough Council and Cumbria this county, and elsewhere in the country, last your Taste Cumbria weekend Life, its main sponsors are December. Against all the odds, we staged the Cockermouth Town Council, first ever Taste Cumbria Christmas festival just a 16.Taste at Jennings week later, and here we are now, about to host the It’s not all about the food, the Lakes Distillery and the flagship festival once again. It is brilliant to be able Taste Cumbria has plenty to Trout Hotel, and associate to say that, once again, this town, and its amazing offer on the beverage front people, have bounced back. too sponsors are Cockermouth Kitchen Company, The Coffee Taste Cumbria in Cockermouth is a wonderful 18. Producers weekend, and it’s great to see the event has grown A comprehensive list of traders Kitchen, Jennings Brewery, to include another festival in Ulverston, and food and suppliers bringing their L’Enclume, Mitchells Auction villages at some of the county’s biggest shows. wares to Cockermouth From the producers’ market, to the hot food court Company, Robert Welch and beer festival, the demonstrations and the 22. Map Designs and the Wood Hall masterclasses, and the hugely popular pop-up A handy map to help you get restaurant we hold here, there is so much to see, luxury self-catering property. do, eat and drink. around and make sure you don’t miss a thing! Don’t forget to visit Cockermouth’s wealth of Thank you also to Cumbria independent businesses too. We’re renowned for Editorial by Suzanne Elsworth. Local Enterprise Partnership the variety on offer here – they’re part of the reason I love living and working in this very special town. I Photographs provided by which, this year, made funding hope you have a great Taste Cumbria experience. The Times & Star, CN Events available for events to boost and The Trout Hotel. footfall in town centres and Andy Walsh Programme designed by Maddog Multimedia, part of CN Group. support local businesses Chair of the Taste Cumbria Steering Group, Taste Cumbria sponsor and owner of The Coffee Kitchen Cafe following the 2015 floods. and The Coffee Kitchen Bakery in Cockermouth 2 3 food festival

Sarah Kekus, Simon Rogan, Peter Sidwell’s The Health Architect L’Enclume, Simply Good Food meet the Sarah’s making her first Cartmel Pete is well known for his appearance at Taste Cumbria Simon is, without doubt, one of the appearances on TV’s Britain’s this year. She wants to unravel biggest names in British food. After Best Bakery, as well as for his the myths and confusing and working with the likes of Jean- books and cookery school, all conflicting messages about Christophe Novelli, Keith Floyd under the Simply Good brand. He also appears alongside the most experts healthy eating, and share ideas and Marco Pierre White, Simon Andy Beaton, Bistro at Steven Doherty, First on how to eat well without it opened L’Enclume in Cartmel in famous TV chefs at the likes of the Ideal Home Show and BBC the Distillery, Setmurthy Floor Cafe, Windermere costing a fortune - or involve 2002, and has gone on to win two spending hours in the kitchen. Michelin stars. Since then, he’s Good Food Show. Baking is one During his career, Andy has done Apprenticed at the Savoy, Steven Book tickets for her Q&A session launched a host of other ventures, of Pete’s passions, but he will be stints at Raymond Blanc’s Petit moved to Le Gavroche in 1978, to ask about all things nutrition. in Manchester and London, as well showcasing another love – pasta Blanc in Oxford, and cooked and it went on to gain three – at Taste Cumbria this year. Cumbria’s food is already as in his beloved Cartmel – often for the Queen at Miller Howe Michelin stars, making Steven the Masterclasses, 11am Masterclasses, 12 noon famed around the globe first British head chef to oversee a now known as ‘Roganville’ in Windermere. He was born in Saturday & Sunday Saturday & Sunday and the same can be Barrow, grew up in Ulverston, and restaurant with so many coveted Pop-up restaurant, 6.45pm said for many of its this Cumbrian grounding is evident stars. He’s worked for the Roux Angharad Macdonald, Friday & Saturday empire across the world, bought Kevin Tickle, foodie experts. in the ‘inviting and informal’ food Carvetii Coffee he creates which he describes as and sold his own restaurants, and Brandon Shepherd, Forest Side, is now firmly rooted in the county. Roasters, Embleton This year’s home-grown ‘exceptional and honest’ and ‘real Grasmere Angharad will show you that’s Rothay Manor, talent, whether they’re chefs food without gimmicks’. Demonstration, 12 noon Sunday there’s more to great coffee than Ambleside Kevin’s CV reads like a ‘Who’s or producers, are nearly Demonstrations, 12 noon beans and hot water. The team He may have learned to cook Who’ of amazing Cumbrian all based in the county – Saturday & 1pm Sunday Scott Fairweather, Punch restaurants – Sharrow Bay, Gilpin though their reputations Bowl at Crosthwaite at Carvetii has discovered the at the knees of his mother and secrets behind the perfect brew grandmother, but Brandon’s Lodge, L’Enclume and Rogan have already spread far Ryan Blackburn, Old and Company are all on there. He’s already been voted Cumbria’s and are passionate about the passion for food has since taken and wide. Post House, Ambleside A famed forager, he became the Young Chef of the Year and ethnicity of their coffee beans, him to acclaimed restaurants Before launching his own Cumbria Life’s Young Chef of the first head chef at Forest Side, Taste Cumbria demos are only using single beans in their throughout the UK and France. restaurant in 2014, Ryan learned Year, and has a growing reputation one of the Lake District’s newest free and take place in the roasts, sourced from single farms. He has a ‘nature to plate’ his trade in his parents’ pub, the for his cookery demos, even luxury hospitality ventures, in marquee on Main Street. It gives a brew with a unique philosophy and a devotion to There is a charge for the Blacksmith’s Arms in Broughton sharing his expertise at Jamie 2014. He was born in West flavour, but also benefits the local seasonal ingredients, which ticketed masterclasses Mills, then at the Michelin-starred Oliver’s Fifteen in London. He’s Cumbria, started as a pot-washer farmers who grow the crops and tutored tastings - Holbeck Ghyll, Restaurant Martin chased a career in catering from an is seeing him create a kitchen at a pub in Foxfield, and is one garden at Rothay Manor, and book in advance at Wishart and, as head chef, early age, and, despite his tender Demonstrations, 10am of the up-and-coming names in www.tastecumbria.com at Cottage in the Wood near years, is already a head chef Saturday & Sunday showing strong influence in the Cumbrian food. Keswick. He proudly creates food menus he creates. or check availability at the Demonstrations, 11am Demonstration, 2pm Sunday Info Point on Main Street inspired by the people, heritage Saturday & Sunday Katie Read, Demonstration, 3pm Sunday over the festival weekend. and landscape of Cumbria. Lakes Distillery, Andy Walsh, Demonstration, 3pm Saturday Jon Fell, White Mare Setmurthy Nick Shill, The Coffee Kitchen Hotel and Restaurant, Shill’s of Katie is business development & The Coffee Kitchen Chris Archer, Cottage Paul Currie, Beckermet Cockermouth Lakes Distillery manager at the Lakes Distillery Bakery, Cockermouth in the Wood, Keswick He may be the world record holder - home to The Lakes Malt, which Former hotelier Nick owns Shill’s Andy and his wife Angela opened Head chef Chris has been Paul is the founder and managing for the biggest Scotch Egg, but will be available from 2018, and wine merchant, deli and cafe bar their Cockermouth coffee shop passionate about food since director of the award-winning it’s fish and seafood that are Jon’s The ONE British Isles blend, here in Cockermouth with his wife because they dreamed of creating childhood. His school work Lakes Distillery at Setmurthy, passion. Before his current role, he The Lakes Gin and The Lakes Wendy. He’s passionate about on the shores of Bassenthwaite worked for the Pennington family at ‘the sort of place we wanted experience was at the Michelin- Vodka. She says the alchemy food and drink, has a background Lake. He is also co-founder of the the Sella Park Hotel and Muncaster to hang around in’. They are starred Vineyard at Stockcross of distilling fascinates her – in agriculture, worked on the acclaimed Arran distillery and has Castle, as well as the very popular sponsors of Taste Cumbria and taking raw ingredients to make massive Rungis food market in with head chef John Campbell. grown up in the distilling industry Zest restaurants in Whitehaven. He passionate about real bread – so something that reminds you of Paris and as a buyer for a British He then served an apprenticeship so is well placed to talk all things has also been heavily involved in much so that they have also real experiences. with Chef Germaine Schwab. whisky, gin and vodka. the Whitehaven Festival, regularly foodie firm, as well as working as opened The Coffee Kitchen Chris is mixing traditional a wine consultant for Grapevine at Bakery, where handcrafted loaves Masterclass, 1pm Saturday, cooking alongside the likes of Jean- Masterclass, Saturday 1pm, techniques with modern trends Embleton. and cakes are top of the menu. plus Tutored Tastings in Christophe Novelli. plus Tutored Tastings in here in Cumbria. the Trout Marquee, Sunday Demonstrations, 4pm Saturday the Trout Marquee, Sunday Masterclasses, 2pm Saturday Grub Club kids’ masterclasses, Demonstration, 1pm Saturday 12.30pm and 3.30pm & Sunday 12.30pm and 3.30pm & Sunday 3pm Saturday & Sunday 4 5 tastecumbria food festival demonstration stage Saturday 24 September & Sunday 25 September Taste Cumbria demonstrations are designed to inspire. Our chefs and experts will show you the tricks of the trade, as well as how to create their amazing dishes at home. Find tips on everything from meat to fish, to creating perfect coffee. All demos are free and will take place free in the show marquee on Main Street to attend!

Saturday 24 September Sunday 25 September

10am Live coffee roasting with 10am Live coffee roasting with Angharad MacDonald from Angharad MacDonald from Carvetii Coffee, Embleton Carvetii Coffee, Embleton 11am Scott Fairweather, 11am Scott Fairweather, The Punchbowl at Crosthwaite The Punchbowl at Crosthwaite Noon Andy Beaton, Bistro at Noon Steven Doherty, First Floor Cafe, the Distillery, Setmurthy Lakeland, Windermere 1pm Chris Archer, Cottage in 1pm Andy Beaton, Bistro at the the Wood, Keswick Distillery, Setmurthy 2pm Kevin Tickle, Forest Side, 2pm Kevin Tickle from Forest Side, Grasmere Grasmere 3pm Ryan Blackburn, The Old 3pm Brandon Shepherd, Rothay Post House, Ambleside Manor, Ambleside 4pm Jon Fell, The White Mare Hotel 4pm Jon Fell, The White Mare Hotel and Restaurant, Beckermet the and Restaurant, Beckermet Wood, Keswick

The experts at our demonstrations may change, depending on their availability. Please check the full listings outside the demo marquee on the day. 6 7 tastecumbria food festival

masterclasses Saturday 24 September & Sunday 25 September All masterclasses take place at Cockermouth Kitchen Company, Market Place. The full line-up is:

11am Health and wellbeing Q&A with The Health Architect, Sarah Kekus Noon Peter Sidwell’s Simply Good Food 1pm Katie Read and Paul Currie Tickets cost £10 of the Lakes Distillery (Saturday only) per person, apart 2pm Wine tasting with Nick Shill, from children’s Grub of Shill’s of Cockermouth Club sessions which 3pm Grub Club FREE children’s masterclass – Create clarty are FREE and Sarah pizza with Andy Walsh of The Coffee Kekus’s Q&A which Kitchen & The Coffee Kitchen Bakery is £5. The Taste Cumbria team is delighted to move Places are limited - please the masterclasses to a new venue this year – book in advance at particularly as it is a business which has fought www.tastecumbria.com, back after being flooded. Jim Woodford, co-owner call 01228 612000 or of Cockermouth Kitchen Company in Market ask about availability on Place, says: “By holding the Taste Masterclasses in our shop window we will show again how the day at the Info Point, resilient this town is, and bring even more people Main Street. to Market Place to see the spirit which has brought this business back again and stronger than ever.” 8 9 tastecumbria food festival a taste sensation Simon Rogan’s Pop-up Restaurant

they will see their food being created, before Friday 23 & Saturday being served five courses at the table by Simon 24 September, 6.45pm and his senior kitchen team. All our guests will enjoy a welcome cocktail, This year’s pop-up restaurant designed by the Lakes Distillery, followed by a quickly sold out – and it’s not three-course menu, with matched wines from Corney & Barrow. They will end their experience surprising given the beautiful with a digestif, also from the Lakes Distillery. venue, and the fact we’ve If you want to be first to hear about next year’s persuaded Michelin-starred Taste Cumbria pop-up restaurant, sign up to chef Simon Rogan to return to our mailing list at www.tastecumbria.com or subscribe to Cumbria Life magazine. Their Taste Cumbria in Cockermouth readers get to hear first about everything we’ve once again. got planned for the food festival. Check out the beautiful Wood Hall on This food festival is an event that Simon simply their website www.wood-hall.co.uk. can’t resist – even though his restaurant empire is going from strength to strength. He splits his Thanks to our cutlery sponsor Robert Welch time between Fera at Claridge’s in London, Designs www.robertwelch.com L’Enclume, Rogan and Company and his farm in Cartmel, and The French and Mr Cooper’s House and Garden, in Manchester.

This year’s pop-up restaurant diners will get a glimpse of Wood Hall, one of Cockermouth’s historic houses, and its amazing views over the town and the fells beyond. It’s been reinvented as luxury self catering accommodation and our thanks go to the owners for allowing us to use this special house this year.

The layout of the property meant we could add another twist to our pop-up offer this year – the Chef’s Table. Those choosing this enhanced option will get an exclusive reception with Simon Rogan in The Coach House, in the grounds of Wood Hall, then sit in front of the kitchen where 10 11 tastecumbria food festival

Car parking and Elsewhere, there are children’s playgrounds in Memorial Gardens, disabled parking just across the footbridge over the River Derwent, or in Harris A park-and-ride service will be Park. Youngsters will also love available on both Saturday and the traditional Toy Shop on Main Sunday. Follow the signs to Street, and Jordan’s Jungle soft Mitchells auction mart off the play on Lorton Road. A66, then catch the free bus into town. There will be a £5 What to wear parking charge. Limited on-street disc parking is available in This is predominantly an outdoor town centre streets, parking event, with stalls and activities also available in Allerdale Borough accessible from roads and Council car parks. footpaths. Please wear suitable Ask the stewards for footwear and be prepared for sun further information. and showers. Is there a cash machine? Child-friendly fun A number of high street banks Entertain budding young chefs have cash machines on Main festival at the Grub Club masterclasses. Street and Station Street in They take place on Saturday Cockermouth. 24 September & Sunday 25 September at 3pm in Are dogs allowed? Cockermouth Kitchen Company, fast guide Market Place. Grub Club is Taste Dogs are more than welcome but owners are asked to keep Cumbria’s fun and educational outreach programme, aimed at them on their leads, respect What’s on in town How to get there would-be cooks of all ages. Grub other visitors, and clean up any Club is free, but you’re welcome mess they may leave behind. The festival is held on Main Street Cockermouth is easily accessible to leave a donation for the 2017 Please place dog bags in the and Market Place in Cockermouth, from the A66 and the A595. Taste Cumbria festival. bins provided. There’s a good pet and at a number of venues around The nearest train station is at shop on Main Street if you need to the town centre. Many of the Workington. A number of bus King’s Church will once again be purchase dog bags. Never leave town’s businesses will be joining in routes run through the town. providing activities in Bitterbeck dogs in hot cars. the festival fun too with their own Visit the ‘roads and travel’ pages Car park right next to our food-focused activities and special of www.cumbria.gov.uk for fairground rides. Keep your eyes The organisers offers. Look out for the posters in timetables. peeled for our crazy scientist the windows. Professor Pumpernickel who The festival is organised by CN Events, part of CN Group, Admission will be showing you all sorts of There’s a wealth of foodie weird and wonderful science the publishers of Cumbria Life. businesses in town too, including www.cnevents.co.uk The Taste Cumbria festival is free experiments throughout the sandwich makers, butchers, weekend. a fishmonger, bakeries, a for all visitors, including access More details to the trader areas and the chefs’ greengrocer and delicatessens – Also don’t miss the comedy demonstrations. There is a charge For more information about not to mention dozens of cafes, chefs – Hugh Fearn and Lee for the masterclasses, evening the Taste Cumbria, and to restaurants and pubs. Whittingstall who will present a events at The Trout, the Beer book tickets in advance, visit cookery demonstration like no Festival at Jennings, and the www.tastecumbria.com, call The National Trust-owned other! As their mobile kitchen pop-up restaurant. Tickets for all 01228 612000, or visit the Wordsworth House & Garden is a garden moves through the of these attractions do sell quickly CN Newspapers offices in peaceful place to explore and you crowds, they create ‘fusion food so visitors are advised to book Workington, Whitehaven, or can meet their costumed servants on the move’, blending home in advance, but ask at the Taste Bank Street or Dalston Road in who’ll be giving Georgian cookery grown ingredients with food Cumbria info point on Main Street Carlisle. For on-the-day tickets demonstrations. Admission foraged from the corner shop, on the day about late availability. for masterclasses, ask at the info charges apply for non-National the streets and, of course, the point on Main Street. Trust members. audience! 12 13 tastecumbria food festival Taste at The Trout The Trout Hotel Marquee, Main Street

Taste at the Trout is now a well-established highlight of Taste Cumbria weekend and there’s always something going on in the marquee in the grounds of this lovely hotel. All day on the Saturday, festival-goers can enjoy fizz and tapas from the Nyetimber English Sparkling Wine Bar. This delicious fizz is made in exactly the same way as Champagne. Two treats are planned on the Friday and Saturday evenings too – Tickled at the Trout comedy on Friday 23 September and the live music night on Saturday 24 September. Then, for the first time this year, the Trout Marquee will host tutored tastings on the Sunday afternoon, courtesy of the Lakes Distillery. Discover how they make their whisky, gin and vodka, try some limited edition spirits, and get £5 off any bottle you buy.

Tickets are selling fast. See www.tastecumbria.com for details.

Taste at The Trout Tickled at the Trout Tutored whisky, vodka and gin Comedy Night tastings Cranstons pie and peas, Jennings’ ales Hosted by Katie Read and Paul Currie and three great comics from the Lakes Distillery Friday 24 September, 7.30pm 12.30pm - 2.30pm Tickets - £19.50 Learn about the limited edition The ONE Sherry Finish – Port Finish, and The ONE Live music night with the Lakes Sherry Finish – Pedro Ximene Distillery in the Trout Marquee 3.30pm - 5.30pm Music from Room 101, Cumbrian supper Featuring The Lakes Gin, The Lakes Vodka and The ONE whisky and gin from the Lakes and the limited edition Explorer Gin Distillery Saturday 25 September, 7.30pm Tickets £10 Tickets - £29.50 includes £5 voucher www.trouthotel.co.uk redeemable against any bottle www.lakesdistillery.com of Lakes Distillery spirit

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The Beer festival band line-up VAL FRIDAY STI 6.00 -7.00pm Buzz Elliot FE 7.00 -8.00pm Doug Aitken BEER 8.00 -9.00 pm Adam Amor SATURDAY at tastecumbria 1.45 - 2.30pm Dan Mason in association with Tractor Shed Brewing 2.45 - 3.30pm Harrison Our annual beer festival is the perfect start learn a little more about how their Jennings beers 3.45- 4.30pm Flick to your Taste Cumbria weekend or an ideal are brewed with care and attention can also take a way to wind down after a day of demos half price tour of the brewery. 4.45 – 5.30pm Neter and shopping. Join us at Jennings Brewery 5.45 - 6.30pm Mojo Rising on the Friday night, or take a stroll up to Taste Cumbria also takes place during national Cask Ales Week – that sounds like the perfect the brewery on the Saturday or Sunday 6.45 - 7.45pm Luke Matear excuse for a pint...! to sample some great ales. We’ve planned the Beer Festival to give you a taste for 8.00 - 9.00pm Connell Vandepeear Cumbrian ales, then give you time to head Cheers! down to the town’s great pubs to enjoy the hospitality they have on offer too. Beer Festival The team from Tractor Shed Brewing is bringing together more than 40 Cumbrian beers and ciders Jennings Half price Opening Hours to please every palate, along with wines who aren’t fans of a traditional pint. Those who want to brewery tours Friday 23 September Saturday 24 September 5pm – 9pm 12 noon & 2pm Saturday 24 September 12 noon – 9pm Tickets - £4.50 for adults and £2.25 for children under 12 Sunday 25 September Includes three half pints of beer 12 noon - 3pm Call 01900 820362 to book. Tickets - £3 www.jenningsbrewery.co.uk

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The Gift of Oil Longhorns BBQ Smokehouse RSPB A flavour of the producers Natural and infused oils and vinegars British meat, rubbed with spices and The UK’S largest nature www.thegiftofoil.co.uk cooked slow over hickory conservation charity Producers’ Market you will find at Taste www.longhornsbbq.co.uk www.rspb.org.uk Main Street & Food Court, Market Place Cumbria this year... Ginger Bakers An inspiring array of cakes and bakes Low Stanger Farm S A Sauces www.gingerbakers.co.uk Organic farm and self catering Gluten-free sauce concentrates to accommodation Rotary Club of The Chocolate Smiths The English Chocolate make stir fries, marinades and more Grasmere Gingerbread www.lowstanger.co.uk www.sasauces.co.uk Bassenthwaite Fun chocolate tastes, with some weird Fountain Company Award-winning world-famous and wonderful ingredients Community organisation, raising Heaven for chocoholics gingerbread Luchini’s Shaw Meats money for local causes www.thechocolatesmiths.com www.theenglishchocolate www.grasmeregingerbread.co.uk Keswick’s famous ice cream specialists www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs fountaincompany.co.uk Salamis, cured meats, game and more www.shawmeats.co.uk CN Newspapers Great British Cheese Company The Magnificent Ennerdale Brewery Bessy Beck Trout Fishery Your independent local media group, Great cheese from Great Britain Marshmallow Company publishers of Cumbria Life Fine cask and bottled ales, made with Shirleys Pies Producers of smoked trout, chicken, www.thegreatbritish Artisan marshmallows made with real duck and more www.cngroup.co.uk Lakeland spring water Premium quality pies like grandma cheesecompany.co.uk fruits and oils used to bake www.bessybecktrout.co.uk www.ennerdalebrewery.co.uk www.themagnificent www.shirleyspies.com Coffee Bug Hallsford Farm marshmallowcompany.com Fat Flour Bakery Blueberry Hill Preserves Freshly ground Illy’s coffee, Twining Suppliers of top quality lamb, Artisan bakery based in Cark in Cartmel The Sour Big flavours, great tastes and no teas and special hot chocolate beef and pork More? The artisan bakery Leprechaun artificial ingredients www.coffee-bug.co.uk www.fatflourbakery.co.uk Artisan breads, seasonal desserts www.hallsfordfarmproduce.co.uk Freshly made mocktails www.blueberryhillpreserves.co.uk and patisserie The Coffee Kitchen and Mr Fitzpatrick’s Cordials www.moreartisan.co.uk Haverigg Smokery Spirit of the Lakes The Brownie Bar The Coffee Kitchen Bakery A range of exciting quirky cordials Hand-smoked food from the country’s The home of Bedrock gin and Standing More than 30 flavours of gorgeously www.mrfitzpatricks.com Artisan coffee shop and bakery selling first prison smokery New Zealand Gourmet Pies Stones vodka gooey brownies and blondies coffee, homemade bread www.areteenterprises.co.uk Filled to the top with tasty ingredients www.bedrockgin.co.uk www.browniebar.co.uk and speciality teas Flavour Magic www.gourmetpie.co.uk www.thecoffeekitchen.co.uk Salt infusions and spice blends to bring Indian Delights The Tea Cartmel Cheese Company food to life Authentic Indian food using specially Passion du Fromage Experience Award-winning cheese maker and seller Cornish Bakery www.flavourmagic.com imported spices Purveyors of high quality French Quality leaf teas from around the www.cartmelcheeses.co.uk Wide selection of tasty French Flavour cheese and continental fine foods world, including flowering tea blooms traditional pasties Kin Vodka Artisan foods, ingredients and meals www.teaexperience.co.uk Cartmel Village Shop www.cornishbakery-lancaster.co.uk Hand blended toffee vodka from the www.frenchflavour.co.uk Pieroth Ltd Producers of the famed sticky toffee heart of the Lakes Personal wine tasting experiences The Trout Hotel pudding Country Flavour www.kinvodka.co.uk FreshFruit Choc Characters www.pieroth.co.uk Cockermouth’s award-winning 4* hotel www.cartmelvillageshop.co.uk Traditional sweet treats and herb jellies Fun fresh fruit shapes and faces, www.trouthotel.co.uk www.country-flavour.co.uk Mrs Kirkhams Lancashire dipped in chocolate Cheese Port of Lancaster Carvetii Coffee Smokehouse Mr Vikki’s Specialist coffee roasters Cranstons Traditional cheese handcrafted on the Fresh Olives family farm Traditionally prepared poultry, fish, Award-winning spiced chutneys and www.carvetiicoffee.co.uk Purveyors of fine food and meats Delicious olives, nuts and sweet garlic www.mrskirkhams.com game and cheese sauces www.cranstons.net www.lancastersmokehouse.co.uk www.mrvikkis.co.uk Carwinley Preserves Friendly Food and Drink Lakeland Mues Family-owned business creating jams, Cumbria Life Natural, preservative-free products Toasted artisan muesli made with Que Fresco Watermill Cafe chutneys and curds The county’s leading lifestyle magazine perfect for allergy sufferers ethically-produced ingredients Hot fresh homemade barbecue food Cakes, bakes and homemade www.carwinleypreserves.co.uk www.cumbrialife.co.uk www.friendlyfoodanddrink.co.uk www.lakelandmues.co.uk chutneys and preserves Quince and Medlar www.watermillcafe.co.uk Charles Taylor Deer & Dexter The Fudge Bar Lakes Distillery Cockermouth’s famed vegetarian Handcrafted garden furniture Red deer venison and Dexter beef, Loads of flavours and the sweetest Home of The ONE whisky, The Lakes restaurant The Wilde http://charlestaylortrading.ie reared in the Lake District fells of treats Malt, The Lakes Gin and The Lakes www.quinceandmedlar.co.uk Bakery www.deer-n-dexter.co.uk Vodka Specialist flapjacks with a modern twist The Cheesecake Emporium Furness Fish, Poultry & Game www.lakesdistillery.com Retro Shots Handmade indulgent desserts in Eastern Food Producers of the famous Morecambe Vodka flavours to take you back to Wildwood Gifts traditional flavours Turkish delight, olives, baklava and bay potted shrimp Lakeland Steaks your childhood Simple, classic homeware designs www.lovecheesecakes.co.uk other delicious treats from the east. www.furnessfish.co.uk Steaks, burgers and hotdogs made www.retroshots.co.uk www.wildwoodgifts.co.uk with prime Cumbrian meat Chocolate Magic Eden Brewery Fyne Fish Rose Cottage Pantry Williams 50 varieties of handmade chocolate Thirst-quencing craft cask and bottled Cockermouth’s fishmonger, seafood Lels Food 4 Thought Pies and savouries using pork from the Handbaked bars and truffles ales, brewed near Penrith deli and sushi producer Homemade cakes and savouries, family farm Quality handbaked cakes and biscuits www.chocolate-magic.co.uk www.edenbrewery.com www.fynefish.net desserts and snacks www.rosecottagepantry.co.uk www.williamshandbaked.co.uk

18 19 food festival Taste Cumbria Owner Simon Rogan has gone on to open The Trout Hotel couldn’t happen restaurants in Manchester and London and brings his team every year to Taste Cumbria. Steeped in history and luxury, and perfectly without its sponsors located in the heart of Cockermouth. Choose www.lenclume.co.uk from the fine dining restaurant or relaxed bar and supporters. and bistro, and enjoy home-grown, locally- Mitchells Auction Company produced food. Auctioneers and valuers of livestock and www.trouthotel.co.uk antiques & fine art, household auctions, estate Thanks so much to agency, land agency,events & venue hire. Wood Hall all involved. www.mitchellsauction.co.uk This historic house, perched high on the fell-side above Cockermouth, has been transformed into luxury self-catering holiday Robert Welch Designs Ltd accommodation. It has stunning views to the reaching 60,000 readers each month. Allerdale Borough Council With 60 years of industry experience and Buttermere valley, across gardens which were Proud to be Taste Cumbria’s media partner, award winning products from the in-house designed by landscape architect Thomas Cockermouth lies at the heart of the borough and to showcase this region’s vibrant food design team, Robert Welch offers a unique Mawson. of Allerdale and perfectly sums up the and drink scene. Council’s vision - this is a great place to live, range of cutlery, kitchen knives, utensils and www.wood-hall.co.uk work, visit and do business. The authority has www.cumbrialife.co.uk tableware. The company’s products can be pledged to invest in festivals and events, and www.cumbrialifefoodawards.co.uk found around the world in department stores, boost its great town centres. top restaurants and five star hotels. www.allerdale.gov.uk Jennings Brewery www.robertwelch.com Founded in 1828, the town’s historic brewery Cockermouth Kitchen uses pure Lakeland water, drawn from its The Coffee Kitchen & own well, in its hugely popular beers. The Company art is in the brewing itself, where the Head The Coffee Kitchen Bakery The team has 36 years of experience in Brewer and his team use their expertise and This artisan coffee house serves single estate designing and installing beautiful kitchens, traditional brewing methods to create a range brews, real bread, speciality teas and the and the premises on Market Place are the of superb Lakeland ales. freshest homemade cakes proving you don’t venue for this year’s Masterclasses. www.jenningsbrewery.co.uk have to go to big cities to find fantastic coffee. www.cockermouthkitchenco.co.uk Their new bakery opens in Market Place in Lakes Distillery September 2015. Cockermouth Town Council Located close to Bassenthwaite Lake, and www.thecoffeekitchen.co.uk Looking after everything from allotments, benefiting from peaty valleys, clean air and seasonal events and the Tourist Information abundant fresh water, this new venture is The Times & Star home to The Lakes Malt, The ONE blend, Centre, to children’s playgrounds and The weekly newspaper for the Allerdale The Lakes Gin and The Lakes Vodka. facilities for all, the Council is at the heart of area, covering Cockermouth, Maryport, the community. www.lakesdistillery.com Workington, Keswick and every village and www.cumbriaparishcouncils.co.uk/ hamlet in between. Bringing you news, sport, cockermouth-town-council L’Enclume entertainment and more. Part of CN Group, Opened in 2002, the Michelin-starred, an independent local media business, which Cumbria Life multi-award-winning restaurant is now one comprises publishing, print and radio. The county’s premier lifestyle magazine, of the country’s premier food destinations. www.timesandstar.co.uk

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Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th September 2016 TASTE CUMBRIA CHRISTMAS COCKERMOUTH Taste Cumbria Cockermouth food festival is back for 2016. The perfect recipe for a fun Sat 9 - Sun 10 Dec foodie day out for the whole family A fantastic festive shopping experience from Bringing the success of the annual event in Cumbria’s finest producers, a stage featuring the Cockermouth to every corner of the county, Taste area’s best musical talent, fairground rides and Cumbria food festivals aim to promote local much more. Seasonal fun with something for produce and highlight the finest food and drink to everyone. be found in Cumbria. 2017 Dates for your diary

TASTE CUMBRIA ULVERSTON TASTE CUMBRIA AT THE CUMBERLAND SHOW Sat 27 - Sun 28 May 2017 Sat 10 June 2017

TASTE CUMBRIA FOOD FESTIVAL TASTE CUMBRIA AT THE LOWTHER SHOW COCKERMOUTH Sat 12 - Sun 13 Aug 2017 Sat 23 - Sun 24 Sept 2017

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