No, really, I don't want to go...
Can you imagine how hellish I would find the Real Food Festival? Running from this Friday (7 May) through to Sunday for us mere mortals, it is billed as the UK’s most exciting food festival. Why on earth would I want to go?
And really, I didn’t want to.
I’m not at all bitter and twisted that I shall spend most of the first day high in the sky, most of the second day wiped out and the third day trying to remember where I am.
And I am also not at all sorry to be missing out on:
* Playing voilà bingo whilst watching Raymond Blanc do a demonstration. Or seeing Thomasina Miers cook anything. Or Richard Bertinet making bread. Dull.
* A whole section devoted to chocolate. Proper chocolate from people like Artisan du Chocolat, William Curley and Paul Wayne Gregory. I’ll be home with a bar of Dairy Milk for sure.
* The chance to eat from the Riverford Organic Field Kitchen. Why do an hour on the train to eat with them at Earls Court when I could drive there in 5 hours, and have to put up with the father in law?
* Finally meeting Kate from Gower Cottage Brownies face to face.
* Having to work my way 400 fantastic producers of great food and drink from around the UK. This way I don’t have to choose between them, no one will be offended when I don’t buy and I won’t have to carry it all home again. Or resist the temptation not to eat it on the way home.
* Arguing with Dr T as to which one of us is driving, as we survey the range of alcoholic drinks set out for tasting. And having to decide if I prefer Sipsmiths to SW4.
* Chuntering away to myself as I read the show catalogue at the number of firms who still have no form of website.
So, if you have nothing better to do, then you could continue to book in advance and make a large saving over what you would have to pay on the door. But really, why would you?
Fabulously appropriate photo by The Wolf on Flickr.
You are right, it was very busy and crowded.
But producers are just so good!
We courted them all day, and we are proud to host them on our online shop,
so no queue if you want to buy from them: just a few clicks.
Small producers are just amazing.
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LOL I don’t know why I didn’t go, I was offered free tickets! But west London just seems soooo far away from southeast London that I couldn’t be bothered to trek there. And I hate crowds.
And it’s not like there was any reward for us foodies at the end of the trek
Maybe next year!
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