I suppose what I quite like about these sorts of food festivals is that they are targeted at everyone, not just die-hard food geeks. And it's a good way of showing off talented local food businesses, chefs or restaurants to people that may not have come across them before.

Anyway, at the Brighton event there is quite a lot on. It's a decent sized site which will have;

• Bake and Cake Theatre (G&T Steampunk hands-on baking demos - I have no idea what this is but I like it)
• Chocolate Theatre (demos from Divine Chocolate and Sciolti Chocolates)
• Homeware Village
• Pop up restaurant from Fishy Fishy & Jamie's Italain
• Local and national award-winning Producers' Market 
• Street Food Avenue

I've already had a cuddle with one of the Two Greedy Italians and hope to get a squeeze of the other one, Gennaro Contaldo (love him!) at some point, although I'll probably be picturing him with that octopus down his Speedos which is etched on my mind from the TV series *shudder*. As well as Gennaro, a few local chefs (including Stephen Crane of Ockenden Manor, Jake Northcote Green from Yum Yum Ninja and Matt Gillan from The Pass) will be doing a spot of live cooking too.

Booze seems to feature heavily with a Wine Village (lots of villages featuring here. It's Brighton. Wot you sayin'?), hay bale bar area with British cider and ale and a double-decker bar bus. Ding ding.

There will be plenty for the kids too with a Children's Cookery Theatre, where they will be creating panda cupcakes and bee muffins (obviously not with real pandas and bees, that will really rile the Brighton veggie massive).

Me? Well, I'll be heading over to the City Beach for ice-cream and sand castle building with the bambino. Happy days.

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