We spent last weekend in London and took a trip to Tobacco Docks for a visit to TASTE Food Festival! The location was amazing and left us feeling very festive. The event included workshops, demonstrations and interviews with some of our favourite chefs including Dan Doherty from Duck and Waffle, the beautiful Gizzi Erskine, and even DJ BBQ from Jamie's FoodTube!
The festival was filled with hundreds of stalls from big food companies and small producers. There were ridiculous numbers of booze stalls and we sampled everything from glitter-infused sparkling wine (they looked like lava lamps!) to some very expensive ports, and lots of festive mulled ciders and flavoured liquors. No wonder then that we all left feeling a little tipsy and extremely jolly!
Our favourite demonstration hands down goes to the amazing Dan Doherty, who showed us how to make an incredible ox-cheek doughnut and prepared a pretty spectacular crispy duck kebab with burnt aubergine, yoghurt, sriracha sauce, cumin, sumac and coriander (pictured above), designed especially for the charity Action Against Hunger. Later on we were able to sample the duck kebabs ourselves, and let us tell you they did not disappoint! We were so inspired that we bought the Duck and Waffle cook book (review soon).
Gizzi Erskine had some sneaky tricks up her sleeve and showed us how to make a delicious prawn cocktail, with prawn-infused oil that we will be sure to be making in the very near future. Christian Stevenson (A.K.A DJ BBQ) was getting to know a host of chefs at the 'A Question of Taste' stage. We managed to catch him in his break for a photo and a chat; we even showed him our portobello mushroom burgers!
The festival was completely amazing. Some of our favourite exhibitors include City of London Distillery (amazing gin!), T2 (for all the teas you could ever desire), Sipsmiths (delicious British spirits), Yorkshire Drizzle (buy the cherry balsamic vinegar), Mr Hugh's (the truffle oil!), Natural World (so many nut butters, our favourite was Sesame & Date) and Borough Broth Co (for some extremely nutritious bone broth: we recommend the chicken).
We can't wait to go next year!
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