- World of Taste Dinner with Slow Food Cornwall - 03/06/06


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On Saturday 3rd June, Slow Food Cornwall brings a unique `World of Taste' fundraising event to the Eden Project with special guests Murray Lachlan Young www.murraylachlanyoung.com and TV presenter and sustainable small holder, Dick Strawbridge.

This finale to Eden's Food & Nutrition Week is an evening of taste exploration which marks the British launch of Slow Food's international projects to protect Britain’s agricultural biodiversity and food culture: the Presidia, the Ark of Taste and world food conference, Terra Madre. The dinners will raise funds to support the opening of a Slow Food UK national office later this year, and its work in further developing biodiversity projects in the UK.
- World of Taste Menu

Here in Cornwall we'll be kicking off with a Plymouth Gin sponsored cocktail-and-canapes hour with entertainment from Murray Lachlan Young's unique blend of dark satirical stand up verse and prose. The first spoken word artist to be given a publishing deal by the mainstream music industry, EMI released Young's `Vice and Verse' on CD to critical acclaim.

For our World of Taste Dinner, St Austell Brewery awardwinning catering development manager, Paul Drye, is working with Eden's team to create a menu using some of Cornwall and the UK's most authentic foods. Our meal will be accompanied by information about all the unique foods included on the menu, from raw milk cheeses from some of the UK's smallest producers to coffee from a Guatemalan co-operative, `HueHuetenango'. Dinner is accompanied with red and white wines from Sicily's Settesoli, Menfi and we'll even be tasting Three Counties Perry from the UK www.slowfoodfoundation.com/eng/presidi/lista.lasso.

After dinner, Dick Strawbridge, presenter of BBC2's `It's Not Easy Being Green' and now a sustainable
smallholder near St Austell www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.org will be waxing lyrical about Slow Food and keeping us entertained with tales from his latest project and TV series.

We'll be finishing off the evening with a raffle of very special foodie prizes, including dinner for two at Roast in Borough Market www.roast-restaurant.com which Visit Britain describes as one of the Top 10 Restaurants in London and revered critic Fay Maschler recommends as one of the Hottest Meals of 2005.

Finally, we'll be sending everyone off home with a goodie bag of authentic food and drink samples.

Places are limited and will be allocated on a strictly first come first served basis. Tickets Non-members £40 / £35 members, available from Angie Dodd on 01841 533 066 or email
angie@seriously-good.co.uk


- Booking Form
- World of Taste Menu
- Raffle Prizes
- Sponsors