The Great Cornish Food Festival, not to be missed!

STREET-FOOD style pop-ups from a selection of Cornwall’s top restaurants and exciting newcomers will be serving a taster of their restaurant’s mouth-watering signature dishes at this years Great Cornish Food Festival on Truro's Lemon Quay. Cornwall’s array of artisan producers will deliver a bounty of the best food and beverages from around the county: bakers, butchers, breweries, cider makers, chocolatiers and cheese-makers will all be sampling and selling their wares.

Meanwhile, top chefs will entertain, inspire and share their secrets in the Chefs’ Theatre and Croust Bar Masterclass Theatre. Playing host to the county’s highest profile chefs and foodie personalities, illustrating the diversity of culinary expertise in the county and perfectly demonstrates just why Cornwall deserves its reputation as one of the greatest places to eat in the country, if not the world.

September 22-24 with Free Entry

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Reindeers on Parade

THE annual #reindeer parade and Christmas procession through Truro, #Cornwall happens on Wednesday November 30 this year and is a favourite in the family festive calendar, heralding the start of late night shopping in the city.

The reindeer parade starts at 6.45pm from Victoria Square and travels via Little Castle Street, River Street, St Nicholas Street, King Street, Princes Street, Green Street, Lemon Quay and Lower Lemon Street and finally ending in Victoria Square.

There are chances to enjoy looking at the reindeer along route, which takes about an hour.

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Cornwall food glorious food . . .

#CORNWALL offers a host of events throughout the year making it the perfect place for a break all year round, not just for the Summer holidays. Try out one of these fantastic local food and drink festivals in #October.

The Eden Project’s Annual Beer Festival, October 1
Promising a selection of top tipples, fabulous food and live music. The one-day festival, organised in partnership with the renowned St. Austell Brewery, will feature a huge range of speciality beers and ciders.

Oktoberfest Truro, October 7 & 8
A celebration of Bavarian culture at Truro Lemon Quay (the piazza) with beers, food, music.

Falmouth Oyster Festival, 13-16 October
Falmouth Oyster Festival will for the 20th year welcome visitors to enjoy a programme of cookery demonstrations, live music and freshly shucked oysters.

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Food fest in Truro

THE GREAT CORNWALL FOOD FESTIVAL is back again (September 23-25). More than 100 food experts and chefs will gather to celebrate the county’s bounty in a convenient, accessible, all-weather location in the centre of Truro. 

Festival organizers #Cornwall Food & Drink are welcoming two new high-profile headliners, April Bloomfield (Spotted Pig, NYC) and Tom Adams (Pitt Cue, London) who have teamed up to create a Cornish venture in a Georgian dairy farm near Launceston.

They are restoring the original farmhouse into a guesthouse and dining room and will also be using the 66 acres as a working farm. Eventually they hope to create workshops, curing rooms, and producer events. They will be joined on stage by Philip Warren, a local farmer and master butcher who supplies meat to many well-known chefs and restaurants in Cornwall and London.

The festival continues to be a free event.

www.greatcornishfood.co.uk/festival

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Coming up in Cornwall …

St Ives September Festival – September 12-26: The biggest arts event in the South-West sees a plethora of talent performing around the town. More than 300 events in two weeks of music, exhibitions, walks, talks, workshops, films, comedy, theatre, plays, stories, and poetry. www.stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk

Newquay Fish Festival – September 11-13: In its 13th year, the festival fuses Newquay's holiday scene and its fishing community and attracts more than 40,000 visitors. www.newquayfishfestival.co.uk

Looe Music Festival – September 18-20: Playing host to bands including Jools Holland & His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra and The Proclaimers, the stage overlooks a beach lined by steep cliffs and the harbour. Expect an eclectic mix of high energy ‘keep you on the move’ music delivered back-to-back from either end of the beach and around the harbour, plus acts on every street corner, and in every bar and restaurant. www.looemusic.co.uk

Great Cornish Food Festival, Lemon Quay, Truro. – September 25-27: Local celebrated seafood chef and staunch festival supporter, Nathan Outlaw, headlines a packed timetable of master classes, cooking challenges, and tastings. More than 60 exhibitors and 30 food experts will be taking part in what is said to be the largest event anywhere dedicated 100% to Cornish food and drink. www.greatcornishfood.co.uk/festival

Falmouth Oyster Festival – October 8-11: The festival celebrates the start of the oyster dredging season, quality of Cornish Seafood and, in particular, dredging by sail and hand punt. The four-day festival is packed with cookery demonstrations by leading local chefs, with oysters, seafood, wine, and ale to sample, plus children's shell painting, entertainment in the form of sea shanties, a town parade, live music, an oyster shucking competition, and Falmouth’s Working Boat race. 

www.falmouthoysterfestival.co.uk

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Poldark on show in Truro

THE Royal Cornwall Museum (RCM) in Truro is staging a #Poldark exhibition, which runs until September 4. 

Highlights of the exhibition include:

• The original manuscript of Bella Poldark – the 12th and final novel in the series, written in 2002. 

• Winston Graham's first acceptance letter for a published work. 

• The detailed Poldark family tree with Winston Graham's handwritten research notes.

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Cornwall on song

There will be five days and nights of song across the county of Cornwall as choirs of all ages and nationalities gather for the largest festival of its kind in Europe. 

THE internationally renowned operatic tenor John Treleaven will be joining choirs from around the world for the start of the Cornwall International Male Voice Choral Festival at Truro Cathedral on April 30.

More than 3000 singers in 70 choirs will be taking part in 60 concerts and celebrations in 50 venues from Bude to Penzance and Torpoint to Porthleven.

Choirs from Canada, the US, Russia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, England, Wales, and Scotland will be performing throughout the festival to more than 40,000 people.

The International Gala Concerts at Truro Cathedral and the Hall for Cornwall create a cultural hub for the festival.

Details of dozens of daytime concerts in gardens, schools, and picturesque spots from Caerhays and Pendennis Castles to Land's End and the Minack Theatre, Heartlands, Trebah and the Eden Project can be found at www.cimvcf.org.uk along with full details of the international and regional Galas outlined below.

Concert tickets can be purchased through the festival website – TICKETS ARE GOING FAST- Not long to go now!! - Go now to www.cimvcf.org.uk –which also has details of local box offices.

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Zero carbon Emerald in the running for green award

THE UK’s first zero-carbon holiday home business has been shortlisted in the Sustainable Tourism Award category in the 2014/15 Cornwall Tourism Awards, the winners of which will be announced today - November 6.

The Emerald – a group of five luxury self-catering holiday homes near Truro – was created by former oil broker Tim Kemp and his wife. In September last year it achieved the Government's highest sustainable construction grading.

Mr Kemp said: ‘Having spent years as an oil broker and realizing the dependence we have on fossil fuels, when I decided to build my dream it had to be sustainable and eco-friendly … we all have to do our bit. The best credentials for serious zero carbon was to build to code level six. No one had yet done this for a holiday home. It was perfect, as it meant by doing this, the houses had to be disability friendly as well as a lifetime home.’ For more information go to www.emeraldcornwall.co.uk 

To qualify for a six-star rating, properties are subject to rigorous assessment during and after construction, and must meet specific criteria and standards across nine categories including energy, water, minerals, surface water run-off, waste, pollution, and ecology. 

At The Emerald, the Kemps included rainwater harvesting and grey water recycling systems, planted 10,000 daffodils and 150 native trees, and drilled a bore hole to a depth equivalent to the height of Truro Cathedral to access the natural water table.

Facilities at The Emerald include an indoor heated swimming pool, a tennis court, gym, resident chickens and pigs, and a Koi carp lake.

The Emerald can be rented as individual properties or as an entire estate for special occasions.

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Foodies head west …

THOUSANDS of people are expected to head west for the Great Cornish Food Festival (September 26-28), the largest free event dedicated entirely to Cornish food and drink, which will take over the centre of Truro during the three-day weekend.

 This year, seafood chef Nathan Outlaw leads the charge, joining more than 60 Cornish producers and 30 leading chefs to headline a timetable of masterclasses, cooking challenges and tastings.

The full programme of events, activities, exhibitors and opening times can be found at www.greatcornishfood.co.uk/festival

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