Get out of the kitchen and into the square. You could bring your own picnic or you could just relax and indulge in an offering from one of a dozen stalls circling the Big Sunday Lunch tables, tempting us all to enjoy a local food experience.

Alison Stoyle will be cooking her farm potatoes with delicious fillings, Oliver’s and Stevie B’s will produce a range of picnic sweet and savoury pastries and, for those with a really sweet tooth, there is fudge, Richie’s Bistro puddings and that old-fashioned tricycle supplying the incomparable Rookebeare Farm ice-cream.

Not just a recipe for Lamb Sweetbreads, Wild Garlic Gnocchi, Morels & Asparagus but a whole learning experience. Download the pdf and indulge.

Sweetbreads

Want to see who’ll be there:

Alison Stoyle – Potatoes

Ann Pollard – Riverside Goats Cheese

Bob Wigginton – Devon crumbly slab fudge

Brambles – Ready made meals

Clannaborough Red Ruby Beef – Beef

Crediton Garden Club

David Burcher Farming – Duck & goose eggs

Glyn Comont – Pork products

Jamie At Home – Cooking equipment

Jane Edwards – Pies, chutneys, etc.

Jurassic Seafood – Seafood

Justice Olives – Palestinian produce

Linscombe – Organic vegetables

Neil Wilson – Plants

Norsworthy Cheese – Goat cheeses

Oliver’s – Bakery

Purely Pines – Pork products

Redhill Apple Juice – Apple juice

Richie’s Bistro – Puddings

Rob The Egg Man – Pasties

Rookebeare Farm – Ice cream

Ruth Beckley – Ready made meals

Sandford Orchards – Cider

Stanbury’s – Game meat

Stevie B’s – Bakery

Sustainable Crediton – Grow Your Own

Suzy Sweet Tooth – Fudge

Tracey Mill Trout Farm – Trout

Tried & Tasted – Olive oils, etc.

Women’s Farming Network – CD

Plus entertainment and face painting.

Here are the approximate timings for you to catch your favourite cookery demo:

As a Festival opener Crediton Mayor Frank Leitch will kick off with his demo about 10.30, followed an hour later by Steve Brannan from Il Casita with Creedy Carver duck breast with raspberry sauce, saute potatoes and wild garlic followed by a no-cook cheesecake.

Around 12.30 the fabulous Chris Archambault will be creative with the produce he has sourced from roving round the stalls (see his recipe for sweetbreads – maybe he’ll be cooking it, maybe not).

About 1.30 Gretchen Oldland will definitely be wowing us with her fabulous Woolsgrove meal (recipes to download are below), then your final chance to pick up professional tips is with Richie Brent at 2.30.