More Food Festival fun at St Fagans

24th August 2010

Visitors to St Fagans: National History Museum will be in foodie heaven on 11 and 12 September 2010 as the Cardiff museum hosts a new FREE food festival.

Take some stalls showcasing the finest Welsh foods and drinks, add a healthy helping of history, mix it up with free admission and serve it all in the unique open-air setting of St Fagans: National History Museum; this is the perfect recipe for a mouth-watering food festival.

From traditional Welsh fare to cutting edge cuisine; Cider to Samosas, Whisky to Welshcakes – there will be plenty to tickle the taste buds. Visitors to St Fagans Food Festival can taste and buy produce from more than 50 stalls nestling amongst the Museum’s re-constructed buildings, buy bread and cakes baked in the Museum’s own bakehouse and try home-made pork sausages made with meat from animals reared at the Museum.

As well as whetting the appetite, there will be plenty of family friendly events to feed the mind, including:

• Food Demonstrations: Cordon Bleu cook and food consultant Gili Davies will be sharing her wealth of experience and knowledge of Welsh cooking.
• Tudor Tastes: Find out what people would have been eating in the times of Henry VIII in a 16th century farmhouse
• Traditional Baking: you might have seen St Fagans on the BBC’s ‘Great British Bake Off’, learn more about baking in Llwyn yr Eos, a farmstead that once produced food for the Earl of Plymouth and his family in nearby St Fagans castle.
• Grow Your Own: Garlic is normally associated with Bari not Barry and St Tropez not St Fagans, but the Welsh were once a nation of garlic lovers; one of our gardeners will be on hand to tell you more about the gardens that once produced food for the working classes. 
• The Science of Chocolate: Learn more about the history of chocolate, why it’s good for you and why it tastes so good!
• Allotment Keeper: The garden of Llainfadyn Cottage at St Fagans has been transformed for a new, temporary photographic exhibition by Betina Skovbro of allotment keepers from across Cardiff. The exhibition will uncover the unique and idiosyncratic world of growing your own food, at a time when its popularity has never been greater
  
  Find out more about the Food Festival here.

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