Best Banger for Second Year Running
Chester Market picks up the best sausage at the Food and Drink Festival for the second year running.
As visitors sizzled in the Spring sunshine outside, sausages were grilled inside Chester’s Food and Drink Taste Marquee. The overall winner of Chester’s Best Sausage was David Joinson’s pork and leek sausage, normally on show at Chester Market which also took the crown in blind tests last year. Mr Joinson will receive his Award at Tuesday’s Gala Dinner, among a star packed audience.
The sausages entered in the competition included a Spanish Matador chillie variety, as well as pork and wholegrain mustard, pork and leek, pork and stilton and pork and black sticks blue cheese sausage.
Organiser Nick Birchall said: “David Joinson’s pork and leek sausages are outstanding. All sausages entered are made in Chester city centre. The sausages were judged by nine esteemed sausage eaters on taste, texture and appearance.”
Sausages; made of pork, flavoured with fennel and coriander and pushed into a sheep’s bladder, date back to the Roman era and were quite possibly eaten in Chester two thousand years ago.
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The first week in November is British Sausage Week. In the last five years, sausages have gone up in value by 18 per cent. The world record for sausage eating is held by a Japanese man, who ate 58 sausages in 10 minutes.
Of the 5 million people a day and 90% of households eating sausages around Britain 20,000 of them are expected at Chester Food & Drink Festival over the Bank Holiday weekend. More sausages are eaten on Saturday than any other day of the week, 44% for an evening meal rather than 18% for breakfast. The British public spend 600 million UK pounds on 266,500 tonnes of sausages a year of which there are 470 different types.
For more details on sausages please visit: www.sausagelinks.co.uk www.sausagefans.com www.sausagefocus.com www.sausage-club.com www.sausage-stuffer.com or www.sausage-fest.com
The Taste Marquee contains over 100 retailers and growers with samples of Cheshire, North Wales, national and international produce, reflecting the cosmopolitan nature of Cheshire. Highlights include a chocolate fountain & chocolatieres, icecream, wines, beers and liquers, pies, roasts and game, sausages, watercress, juices, organic products and hundreds of taste experiences. Family tickets are £12, adults £5 and concessions £3.50.
The Food and Drink Fringe Festival is taking place around the City from April 6 to 15, 2007 with special events, restaurants, bars and hotels all helping to make Chester the focus of food and drink within the UK, with theme nights, special family offers and accommodation promotions.
The Gala Awards Dinner will ensure 250 people sample a gourmet menu sourced from leading producers in the North West and celebrates the best of the region. This is on Tuesday April 10 2007.
Chester’s Food and Drink Festival is organised on behalf of Chester City Council with support from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), Visit Chester & Cheshire; the tourism board for Cheshire and Warrington, Cheshire County Council, Made in Cheshire, North West Fine Foods and the Rural Recovery Fund.
2006 Visitor Survey 16,000 people visited the Taste Marquee and £90,000 was spent there over the three days. 51 per cent of visitors came from a distance of more than 25 miles, making a total of 8,000 people brought into the City. 78 per cent of people surveyed said the event was good or excellent. 87 per cent of people surveyed said they were likely to return. Nearly 100 producers and exhibitors were on show in the Taste Marquee, bringing their own skills and produce from Cheshire and around the world to be part of the Festival. There were seminars and competitions in micro brewing, wines, sausages and cheeses and the opportunity to taste local paté, black pudding, bread, cereals, oils, pies, meat, fish, cheeses, chocolates, liqueurs and even a juice bar.
For further information on the region go to www.visitchester.com. More general information at www.chesterfoodanddrink.com
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