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Lake District Food Festival 2

Chef Michael Weston-Cole talks about plans for the first food festival at The Waterhead Hotel's Bay Restaurant from the 18th to the 22nd of November.

Lake District Food Festival

Head Chef Michael Weston Cole talks about the Waterhead Hotel's new food festival from the 18th to the 22nd of November 2008.

The Cumberland Sausage

A poem by Cynthia Nicholas and read by Keith Balmer, who are members of the Lakeland Dialect Society, in praise of the Cumberland Sausage. For information on the campaign to protect the Traditional Cumberland Sausage visit www.traditionalcumberlandsausage.com.

Hairy Bikers back the campaign to protect the Tr...

Celebrity chefs the Hairy Bikers have declared their support for the campaign to protect the Traditional Cumberland Sausage. Dave Myers and Si King took a break from filming to sign a petition supporting the campaign, which is being organised by Made in Cumbria and the Cumberland Sausage Association.

Muncaster stand-up competition

Jester competition at Muncaster Castle

Highlights of the 2007 International Jester Tour...

American feels like a real Fool An English castle appointed its first American jester after a closely fought competition in 2007. Paul Garbanzo beat five other competitors in the International Jester Tournament to become the Fool of Muncaster Castle in the Lake District. He wowed the crowd and won the judges vote with a performance that included juggling a flaming torch and a large knife, while standing on a two foot ‘ball of death’ and eating an onion. Peter Frost Pennington, whose family hav...

The campaign to protect the Traditional Cumberla...

A Cumbrian farmer took the campaign to protect the Traditional Cumberland Sausage to the heart of London on Ste George's Day (23rd April). Peter Gott from Sillfield Farm displayed a Traditional Cumberland Sausage ppster in Trafalgar Square as part of the campaign to persuade the European Union to protect Cumbria's favourite banger from poor quality imitations.An application to stop anyone outside Cumbria calling their sausages Traditional Cumberland Sausages is due to go to Brussels in the nex...