![]() ![]() The oyster festival is now in its third year and is proving a huge success – in 2018 it attracted 14,000 people and has generated spend in the region of £900,000 to £1.1m for the area’s economy. The following weekend, the Stranraer Oyster Festival will be welcoming celebrity chef Tony Singh MBE – famed for his love of Scottish produce. “The festival is a chance to enjoy everything from cheese to chocolate and ice cream to scallops.”Ĭastle Douglas will be hosting events celebrity chefs like Masterchef winner Gary Maclean and Ian McAndrew, winner of Scotland’s Chef of the Year. “Highlights include our fabulous beef, including from the region’s distinctive Belties and our dairy – the chances are that any of the Scottish milk you drink today will come from our region. So we are inviting people along to celebrate a weekend of artisan food and superb cooking in the lovely town of Castle Douglas. Sarah-Jane Allsopp,organiser of the third annual Castle Douglas Harvest Food Festival, said: “The produce from Dumfries and Galloway is simply amazing, we really want to shout about it. The first day of the race is always an exciting finish, so we’d encourage sports fans from across the south of Scotland and north of England to come and enjoy Kirkcudbright and celebrate what will be a great occasion.” Peter Hodges, OVO Energy Tour of Britain PR and Marketing Manager, said:“We are delighted to be bringing the tour to Kirkcudbright for the first time to conclude our opening stage. More than 9,000 spectators are forecast to gather and enjoy the cycling festivities in anticipation of a heart-stopping sprint finish in Kirkcudbright town centre. This year’s first Stage of the OVO Energy Tour of Britain, the UK’s blue riband cycling race and our equivalent to the Tour De France, is a testing slog of more than 120 miles between Glasgow and Kirkcudbright. Kirkcudbright Festival of Light “Illuminaire”10-13 October.Wigtown Book Festival, 27 September to 6 October.Stranraer Oyster Festival, 13-15 September.Harvest Food Festival, 7-8 September, Castle Douglas.OVO Energy Tour of Britain Stage One, 7 September, Kirkcudbright.The six attractions, which are all supported by Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Major Festivals and Events Strategy 2018-21, are: These take place in picturesque places like Wigtown, Scotland’s National Book Town, Castle Douglas Food Town, Kirkcudbright Artists’ Town, at the regenerated port of Stranraer and through the hills and lanes of Galloway. … Sainsbury’s is helping us celebrate Organic September by creating some mouth-watering recipes on their website, encouraging us to use their excellent SO Organic range and they very kindly sent me a box of their most classic produce from that range so that I could celebrate with them.There’s everything from top-flight cycle racing and motorsport through to the finest foods from farm and sea, plus literature and a festival of light. ![]() I am an advocate of organic food but I don’t think it has anything particularly to do with taste, for me it is about the methods used to produce the food, methods that mean better welfare for animals and the environment, stuff I don’t really think any of us could argue with… … this month the Soil Association brings us Organic September – a whole 31 days to celebrate all that is wonderful about organic food. …should the dreadful happen here at belleau cottage and we miss breakfast, we treat ourselves to brinner… which is quite simply breakfast for d inner, in fact The Viking tells me it’s his favourite meal.
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