Main course of celebrity chefs for Easter Day
Celebrity chefs Alan Coxon, Leigh Myers and Paul Taylor gave a main helping of culinary demonstrations to packed audiences at the Taste Festival.
Record visitor figures for the Easter Day of the Festival enjoyed the sunshine and saw headline chef Alan Coxon, who was voted amongst the top 10 TV chefs in the world in a recent BBC viewer poll across 100 countries, take to the Chester stage.
Food archaeologist Alan, who has created a Historic Vinaigres range which explores tastes and flavours that once adorned the tables of Roman Emperors and Medieval Knights, gave two chef demonstrations which involved members of the audience. Alan cooked a pyramid of meringue with raspberry cream and sponge sugar, an American key lime pie with cracknel and lime syrup and tuna fish marinated in herbs with peanut sauce.
Leigh Myers, Executive Head Chef at the Grosvenor Pulford Hotel & Spa and Director of Food for the Chester Food and Drink Festival 2009, cooked Cheshire cheese twice baked soufflé with cooked beetroot and peashoots, lamb Provencale with couscous and a dessert of Tattenhall yoghurt mousse with figs and hazelnut brittle.
Paul Taylor, of The Fat Loaf in Sale, Altrincham and Didsbury, who has cooked at the Chester Festival for the last three years, also gave two demonstrations. Paul cooked a confit of duck legs with Puy lentils and chorizo, a fish dish which included couli, salmon, red snapper, crayfish and brown anchovies and a dessert of brioche with cherries and orange marmalade, crème fraiche and mint. In his second demonstration, Paul cooked with food from the stallholders at the Festival, including devilled kidneys on toast with squashed tomatoes, a vegetable salad with purple sprouting broccoli dressed in pesto with chopped sausages from Jimmy’s Farm and a poached egg and a course of Menai oysters.
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