The panel included Dr David Pencheon, a public health doctor and director for the NHS Sustainability Unit; Professor Chris Lamb, director of the John Innes Institute; Emma Marsden, cookery editor of Good Housekeeping; Chris Coubrough, one of Norfolk’s celebrity chefs; John Shropshire, CEO of G’s marketing, and major salad and vegetable grower; and Sam Nundy, East of England buyer from Tesco.
As always, the highly popular Battle of the Bangers Competition was a huge success, with around 4000 members of the public casting their votes for their favourite sausage-maker. Anthony Spurgeon, of Frank Spurgeon Limited was finally declared reigning champion, winning both the judges’ vote and the majority public vote.
The Moveable Feast was a huge success, with just under 700 tickets sold, making for the biggest ever audience of dinner guests for this much loved food extravaganza. A total of 18 restaurants took part and the city was full of happy groups of diners as they made their way between different city centre restaurants for their starter, main and dessert, coming together at the end for an After Feast Party at the Forum.
If you are a business in Norfolk there are countless ways in which you can participate and we welcome anyone who wishes to try something a little different, in fact we challenge you! You can make your participation as big or as small as you like, you can have a target market in mind or go for gold. We are already thinking about next year's Festival and if you would like to join in to showcase your product to a large audience that really care about food, contact
clare.packer@visitnorwich.co.uk or call Clare on 01603 727979.
Have a look at our photo gallery below to see some of the fun of the Festival!