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20-701: The Abergavenny Food Festival is an annual food festival which takes place in the town of Abergavenny in Wales each September. It was listed as 1 of 50 Best Summer Festivals by The Independent newspaper. The festival was founded in 1999, by two local farmers, Chris Wardle and Martin Orbach, in the aftermath of the BSE crisis. "Abergavenny is to food as Cannes is to film – an annual festival for spotting rising stars in Britain's artisan food firmament" The 2019 festival

40-477: A Recession" Food festival Food festivals throughout the world are often based on traditional farming techniques and the seasons of the year. Food festivals are related to food culture of an area, whether through the preparation of food served or the time period in which the festival is celebrated. Food festivals are considered strengthening agents for local cultural heritage, and simultaneously celebrate this cultural heritage while also commodifying it for

60-400: A national or international audience. While historically aligned with culturally significant food harvesting periods, contemporary food festivals are usually associated with businesses entities or nonprofit organizations and engage a great deal of marketing for their festivals, since their success is measured off how much revenue they generate for the local community, region, or entity putting on

80-578: A real impact on local food culture" chaired by Sheila Dillon , presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme • 2008 – " Developing Regional & Local Food Tourism in the UK" • 2009 – The Big Food Debate. " Sustainable Food – The Debate over Greening the Food Chain – from Policy to Plate" Covered by The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4 . • 2010 – "Food Festivals: The Next Generation" • 2011 – "Changing Attitudes to Local Food" • 2012 – "Food in

100-710: A younger brother. Dillon studied English at Leicester University where she wrote for the university newspaper. At university she became involved in the women's movement . After university, Dillon spent a year in Finland with the British Council . She then undertook postgraduate work in the American Midwest before getting a job in publishing at the Indiana University Press . During her time at Little Brown & Co Publishers, she

120-517: Is a non-profit organisation with an unpaid Board of Directors and small core team of year-round part-time staff. The current Chief Executive is Kim Waters, previously the Chairman. The Festival is additionally supported by organisations and individuals in both the public and private sectors. The planning for the first festival started in 1998. Run by volunteers it was helped by the then 'three towns adviser' of Monmouth, Chepstow & Abergavenny and

140-1295: The National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Michigan ; Brentwood Cornfest in Brentwood, California ; Mushroom Festivals in various locales; the Castroville Artichoke Festival , in Castroville, California ; the Stockton Asparagus Festival, in Stockton, California ; the ¡Latin Food Festival! in San Diego, California ; the Lexington Barbecue Festival in North Carolina; the Posen Potato Festival , in Posen, Michigan ;

160-896: The Norwalk Oyster Festival , in Norwalk, Connecticut , Vaisakhi Festival in Yuba City, California , and the Howell Melon Festival in Howell, Michigan , known for electing the Howell Melon Queen. Vegetarian food festivals include VegFests in Boston , Massachusetts ; Salt Lake City , Utah ; and San Francisco , California ; Seattle , Washington ; including the premier Boston Vegetarian Food Festival in autumn, an event originally copied from

180-600: The 'Festival Fanfare ', also previously referred to as the 'Market Hop ' country supper and ' Twmpath '. – On Saturday evening 23 October 1999, the Market Hall hosted 180 people at trestle tables for dinner, punctuated by interludes of song and speech. Other events included Farm Walks, a Marcher Day apple exhibition, guided tour of Abergavenny Museum, and 'Revolting Rhymes' an exhibition of Children's Verse in Abergavenny Library. The Abergavenny Market Hall

200-659: The 21st Century" Produced in association with the BBC Radio 4 Food Programme and • 2013 – "Do we still need the High Street?" • 2002 – " Today's meat culture is Unsafe, Unsavoury and Unsustainable" chaired by Sheila Dillon • 2012 – "Do we still need the High Street?" • 2013 – "Food or wildlife- are we striking the right balance?" chaired by Sarah Dickens, BBC Wales • 2014 – "Is healthy eating making us ill?" Chaired by Nick Barnard of Rude Health 2007 – " Food Festivals – fads for affluent foodies or can have

220-569: The Monmouthshire food initiative officer. 39 local food and drink producers exhibited their wares in the Market Hall. The first programme was a double sided single fold card. There were 2 talks (Attended by 234 people) in the Borough Theatre Marguerite Patten and Franco & Ann Taruschio and, in the evening, Martyn Lewis chaired a debate about GM Foods (Attendance 91). The Community Banquet (now called

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240-562: The National Tourism Awards "Best Event in Wales" 2013/14 and Finalist of the "Best Event in Wales ( Large)" 2015 and one of the leading food events in the UK, attracting visitors from all over the country and from abroad. The event now comprises: 1999 – "GMO's Do we need them?" chaired by BBC Broadcaster Martyn Lewis (Attendance 91) • 2000 – "Organic Food, Hope or Hype?" chaired by BBC Broadcaster Martyn Lewis (Attendance 89) • 2001 – "Beyond Fast Food? A Menu for

260-632: The annual BBC Radio Food and Farming Awards. Dillon has won awards for her work, including the Glaxo Science Prize, the Caroline Walker Award and several Glenfiddich Awards . In 2008, she was awarded an honorary degree by City University for her work, which, the citation says, "has changed the way in which we think about food." She is also a patron of Oxford Gastronomic. In 2010, Dillon received an "Outstanding Achievement Award" from Observer Food Monthly magazine and

280-821: The event. Modern food festivals are also a large part of the food tourism industry, which uses food festivals and regional cuisine to support the broader tourism industry of a particular locality. Food festivals are quickly becoming part of a vast food tourism industry. Food tourism itself has become an important part of the tourism industry worldwide, and the presence of food festivals shown to support local industry development. Food festivals are an important part of destination branding for many regions, creating an event-based reason for individuals to visit otherwise unattractive localities and promote local products and services outside of an urban product environment. Several case studies have shown that food festivals can potentially improve social sustainability while also heavily supporting

300-618: The programme's regular presenter since 2001. Dillon was born in Hoghton , Lancashire , and grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. She is from a farming background and went to a Roman Catholic primary school. Her grandfather was a head joiner on the Hoghton Tower Estate. Her mother worked as a weaver and her father was a barber who came from a farming family in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland . She has one younger sister and

320-668: The then already longstanding Toronto Vegetarian Food Fair in Toronto , Ontario . The List of vegetarian festivals includes hundreds of such events in North America, and hundreds elsewhere, also. Sheila Dillon Sheila Dillon is a British food journalist who began her career writing for the New York food magazine Food Monitor . She is known to listeners of Radio Four as presenter of The Food Programme , on which she has appeared for more than 20 years. Dillon has been

340-633: The tourism and hospitality industries. Food tourism is also an important reason why people attend food festivals around the world. Studies have shown that engagement with food tourism indicates that an individual will attend festivals again in the future, indicating a cooperative element to food tourism and food festival attendance. See List of food festivals in Canada . There are several Florida food festivals and New Jersey food festivals . Other festivals include 626 Night Market in Arcadia, California ;

360-410: Was a key venue and the festival worked with the town hall staff (many of whom are still involved today). Funding: £15,500 came from a variety of sources. A further £1,800 was raised from private sponsors and in addition the festival made £4,295 from the sale of tickets to events and stall holders etc. Any profits are used to help finance future festivals. Over the years the festival has grown to become

380-659: Was attended by over 35,000 people. No festival is planned in 2020. Over the years the festivals celebrity guests have included: Valentine Warner , Tom Parker Bowles , Mitch Tonks , Michael Winner , Matt Tebbutt , Mark Hix , Marguerite Patten OBE , Levi Roots , Keith Floyd , John Burton Race , Valentine Warner, Jay Rayner , Pete Brown, Jason Atherton , Henry Dimbleby , George Alagiah , Franco Taruschio , Fergus Henderson , Christophe Langree , Antonio Carluccio , Anthony Bourdain , Allegra McEvedy , Jose Pizarro, Alex James , Clarissa Dickson Wright , Fergus Henderson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall , Asma Khan, The festival

400-515: Was involved in a landmark sex discrimination case pertaining to issues of equal pay which helped change discriminatory employment practices in the USA. Working with Derek Cooper , Dillon was responsible for coverage of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), GM and food irradiation which helped establish food as an important, newsworthy subject. She has been the presenter of Radio 4’s The Food Programme since taking over from Derek Cooper. She hosts

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