4:20pm Friday 12th March 2010
Three chefs have challenged food critic Michael Winner to come to Craven and eat his words.
Outspoken Mr Winner, a former film director and producer, raised hackles when he criticised all northern food as “rubbish”.
Now Craven chefs have turned the silver-service tables and invited him to sample quality food at Settle’s Victoria Hall on Wednesday.
The Settle Festival group has organised the “Take 3 Chefs” cookery evenings since 2008 and has worked with many top northern chefs, including Pub Chef of the Year Michael Ward and award-winning Stephanie Moon, of Rudding Park.
On Wednesday, the featured chefs will be Bruce Elsworth, from the multi-award-winning Angel Inn at Hetton, Terry Quinn, from The Lister Arms in Malham, and Richard Wright, from The Craven Arms in Giggleswick. They will be cooking with local produce and suppliers will be working with them to display the best of Yorkshire food.
Organiser Mark Dale, a working chef and catering advisor who has carried out display cookery for the national park and at major events such as The CLA Game Fair, said: “For Mr Winner to say ‘all northern food is terrible beyond human belief’ is so wrong and unfair on all who work in the food industry and we are prepared for him to come to see our demo, to show the diversity and quality of food we can offer here.
“We have chefs cooking from a range of different types of dining places, such as the rural pub where Terry is chef/manager, the award-winning inn where Bruce is executive chef and the newest local organic meat eatery where Richard is head chef. These great chefs will be cooking superb food that would make Michael Winner eat his words. He is welcome to come and see and taste and then try to make such a statement.”
Wine matching and food tasters will be available, plus a raffle and displays of local ingredients. Farm shop owner James Ingle and food blogger Chris Wildman, from Paganum, will also be there. MC will be Margaret Holgate, WI personality and former home economics teacher.
Information is available at settlefestival.co.uk and tickets are on sale at the Victoria Hall.
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