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Where all the main chef debates
and demos take place and where
our wonderful MC, Nigel Barden will
grill and probe our amazing guest speakers and chefs with his extensive understanding and knowledge of the foodservice world.
Programme is NOW LIVE!
Trends & Debates Stage
FORAGING
Join Colin from Ground Up Cookery for a foraging walk around Loddington Farm exploring the wilder flora and fauna that coexist within the same space as the commercial crops.
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Discover how you can incorporate wild plants, berries and nuts into your menus and diet.
Taste a range of products made with wild ingredients and learn more about how to capture and preserve these fleeting seasonal flavours and how utilising them in your menu can improve your sustainability scores and provide a great story to engage your customers and clients.
WHAT'S ON AT UCFF...
FARMERS MARKET
Showcasing a wonderful array of
local, national produce and catering
suppliers. It’s dynamic and allows
delegates to use all their senses
– sight, sound, touch, smell, taste –
things email, phone and advertising
just cannot do.
Breakfast, lunch, BBQ dinner and drinks complementary all day. There’s no chance of being hungry at ucff - tuck in and enjoy a freshly prepared menu of delectable delights for breakfast, and lunch cooked to perfection.
We'll be joined by DJ BBQ aka Christian Stevenson at the end of the festival who will be spinning some classic tunes on the wheels of steel!
FREE FOOD
Loddington produces a range of amazing seasonal fruit including apples, pears, asparagus, cherries and apricots. Get up close and personal with Loddington’s collection of pumpkins, sunflowers, asparagus, cherries and apricots during their harvest time and discover what it takes to nurture, breed and grow some of Britain’s finest. You may even catch sight of some chickens and pigs if you're lucky!
THE HARVEST WALK
NEW for 2024, the amazing team
from Staff Canteen will be running a
‘Saturday morning’ style demo stage, interviewing some of the
countries greatest chefs.
THE STAFF CANTEEN LIVE
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