run Nantwich food festival gets underway
The Nantwich Food Festival in Cheshire has commenced, featuring over 200 exhibitors and attracting thousands of visitors to the town. The event is entirely volunteer-run and relies on local sponsorship to remain free for the public, though organizers note that staging the festival is becoming increasingly difficult.
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Share Save Add as preferred on Google Lee Bottomley in Nantwich Nantwich Events Photography Director Nanna Pedley (centre) with some of the other volunteers who help run Nantwich Food Festival One of the UK's largest free-to-enter food festivals gets under way on Friday.
Nantwich Food Festival, in Cheshire, is staged across three days in the town centre, attracting an estimated 40,000 visitors, and is run entirely by volunteers.
"There is just such an amazing atmosphere in town, so many people having a good time," said Nanna Pedley, one of the festival's directors, who like the other 100 volunteers, "love Nantwich and love food and drink".
Celebrity cooks attending this year's event include Lisa Faulkner, Jon Watts and Nigel Brown, with a number of local chefs also staging cooking demonstrations.
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