Taste Challenge At Royal Cornwall Show

Challenge your taste buds to a showdown of local & organic Cornish food! Sumptuous strawberries and delicious Cornish and organic breakfast ingredients will be compared in a blind taste test to standard supermarket brands at the 2007 Royal Cornwall Show, Wadebridge, Cornwall, 7 - 9 June, at the Taste of the West in Cornwall and Organic South West stand, in The Food and Farming Pavilion organised by the Women’s Food and Farming Union.

Taste Challenges will take place at 10am and 4pm daily when visitors can sample appetising breakfast offerings of succulent bacon from the Cornish Pork Pantry, Truro and sizzling sausages and burgers from the Cornish Sausage Company, Penzance. Afternoon delights to be sampled and compared include delicious strawberries from Boddingtons Berries, Mevagissy, and fresh organic milk from Roskilly’s of Cornwall, Helston and mouth watering organic ice cream from Helsett Farm, Boscastle. Other treats to try include delicious free range turkey from happy birds reared by Gobblers, St Breward sure to tantalise the taste buds.

Angie Coombs, Manager at Taste of the West in Cornwall says, ‘The Taste Challenge offers a unique chance for visitors at the Royal Cornwall Show to sample the best Cornish food available and see just how fantastic locally produced food is compared to some supermarket produce. Some of the best food and drink in the UK is produced in Cornwall and we hope this challenge will allow more and more people to sample the best of Cornish and judge for themselves.’

Cookery demonstrations with renowned Cornish chefs also take place daily at 11am and 2pm. Partnering with different local producers, each chef will demonstrate how to whip up a delicious meal using the best local produce available to buy at the show. Celebrated chefs include Richard McGeown from Couch’s Great House Restaurant in Polperro, Kevin Viner from Viners Bar and Restaurant in Summercourt, Mick Smith from Porthminster Café in St Ives, Ben Bass from Q Restaurant in Fowey, Nigel Tabb from Tabb’s Restaurant in Truro and Paul Wadham from Hotel Tresanton in St Mawes.

The cookery demonstrations are also sponsored by Plough to Plate, a Cornish wholesale food company based in Pensilva, who will be supplying additional ingredients for each of the dishes.

Traci Lewis, Project Manager at Organic South West says, ‘We hope that the Taste Challenge and the cookery demonstrations will inform visitors about the fantastic array of organic produce available in Cornwall and give them an opportunity to sample the quality and flavour recognised in locally farmed organic food. The cookery demonstrations will show visitors how easily local seasonal produce can be combined into everyday meals, hopefully then encouraging them to buy local and organic produce as part of their weekly food shop.’

The Taste of the West in Cornwall and Organic South West stand 401 can be found in the Food and Farming Pavilion, organised by the Women’s Food and Farming Union at the Royal Cornwall Show, Wadebridge, Cornwall from 7 – 9 June.

Taste Challenges take place daily at 10am and 4pm. Cookery demonstrations take place daily at 11am and 2pm.