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| Experience the ‘Celebration of Women in the Hill Farming Community’ photographic exhibition. |
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 Cookery Theatre
Pick up some handy tips from leading local chefs. Hear the story behind the produce from local food producers and experts.
This is a must if you're interested in the finest local produce and how to get the most out of it. Join us throughout the day and meet the experts.
| 10:30 - 11:15 |
Martin Peachey From the Hopper Lane Hotel, Blubberhouses. |
| 11:30 - 12:15 |
Jonny Gilmore - Devonshire Brasserie and Bar, Bolton Abbey |
| 12:30 - 13:15 |
Bruce Elsworth & Steven Crabtree - Angel Inn, Hetton and Bolton Abbey Foods |
| 13:30 - 14:15 |
Craig Allen - Coniston Hall |
| 14;30 - 15:15 |
Jim Rowley - Red Lion Hotel, Burnsall |
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 There will be a children's cookery theatre at the show this year with award winning chef Andrew Wood.
Andrew, who has worked at the University of York for four years, gained his catering qualifications at York College before attending Scarborough College to specialise in pastry. He has also worked in Germany, at the London Ritz and as Head Chef at York's Middlethorpe Hall, as well as a lecturer at York College.
Andrew won a Gold medal in the 2006 Salon Culinaire de Londres competition, one of the world's most prestigious professional culinary competitions.
Andrew competed against nine other finalists in the University Chef category, who were given the task of preparing a two-course lunch, plus appetiser, for a vice-chancellor and a 'very important visitor'. Andrew's menu had a Yorkshire theme and included a pea and York ham soup accompanied by Yorkshire Porter onion marmalade and a miniature Yorkshire pudding, loin of Whitby cod and Yorkshire parkin topped with Wensleydale cheese ice-cream.
Part of the prize includes a week's 'work experience' split between a three and a two Michelin star restaurant in the Lyon area of France, which Andrew hopes to take up in May or June. |
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| DID YOU KNOW? |
Do you know what percentage of the money the average family pays for food goes to the farmer who produces it?
Bread 15%
Chicken 42%
Apples 42%
Beef 44%, Potatoes 21%
Milk 30%.
The rest goes to the processor and retailer.
The farmers share of the food pound has fallen 25% in the last 15 years
The total turnover of the British dairy industry is £6 billion, around 10% of total food and manufacturing output.
British farms annually produce 880 million eggs, 75,000 tonnes of strawberries and raspberries, 1.1 million tonnes of sugar and 13.7 billion litres of milk. That’s enough to make over a billion pavlovas!
British dairy products are produced to world-leading standards of animal health, welfare and food safety
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