Slow Food London May Market at Southbank
Market dates: Friday 2 - Monday 5 May
Times: 11am - 8pm
- New at the Spring Market is a major presence for The Natural Kitchen http://www.thenaturalkitchen.com/ , winner of the “Best New Shop” category in the Natural and Organic Awards 2008. It will now be recreating ‘the romance and discovery of the traditional market place’ at Southbank Centre Square. Three stands will furnish the best of everything organic, artisan, wild, ethical, seasonal…
- In high hopes of Bank Holiday sun, we welcome too Minghella Ice Cream from the Isle of Wight http://www.minghella.co.uk
- And just in case it clouds over for a while, you can sip a cup of organic, fairly traded Monmouth coffee or hot chocolate direct from the Piaggio of Bean & Gone
- Enjoy with a chunk of fudge (organic and fairly traded ingredients to complement the coffee) from south London company Cookies & Cream
- Or a totally enticing square of Eat Natural’s http://www.eatnatural.co.uk/ ethically-sourced cereal bars
- If biodynamic tea is more your drink, stop by at Sarah Moore’s stand and sip alongside a slice of Venezuelan chocolate cake;; or pecan nut cake with chestnut & quinoa flour or agave syrup & date flapjacks. Impeccably made savoury soups and muffins, too.
- You’ll find hot, griddled organic Welsh cakes at Mootown, who do indeed justify their name by specialising in artisan cheeses, with an emphasis on the Welsh (the cakes are made above the ripening rooms of Caws Cenarth) The Carmarthen ham won’t disappoint either.
- More Welsh wizardry from Patchwork Pâtés http://www.patchwork-pate.co.uk/store/Home.aspx airing their Spring range;
- But game lovers can still indulge their passion at the stand of Mark Gilchrist of Game for Everything http://www.gameforeverything.com/ where you will find game pies, rabbit pasta and more
- Adventurous palates might sample hot dishes from Café Spice Namasté http://www.cafespice.co.uk/; Cyrus Todiwala MBE sources ethically and locally to complement his renowned Indian cuisine;
- Or travel to the Levant via Arabica Food and Spice http://www.arabicafoodandspice.com
- To Japan via Clearspring http://www.clearspring.co.uk/
- Or try Rice & Peas with Jerk Chicken or Curried Lamb, or Chickpeas and Sweet Potato Dhal from Clara’s Caribbean Kitchen http://wwwclarascc.co.uk and take home a range of enticing seasonings, chutneys, jellies and jolof.
- Cool your plate with draught beers from Utobeer http://www.utobeer.co.uk/ and Beer2Love; or if English Cask Ale is not to your liking, browse a range of boutique bottled beers
- Head over to the Slow Food Presidium stand to sample Butford Organic’s limited-supply sparkling Aurora perry and to buy a few bottles of Tom Oliver’s finest http://www.theolivers.org.uk/page4.html
- And to Green & Blue for small producer, low-yield wines from around the world http://www.greenandbluewines.com/wine/
- Catch a taste of Mersea island with Colchester Oysters http://www.richardhawardsoysters.co.uk/ , beer http://www.merseawine.com/brewery.htm and wines http://www.merseawine.com/
- Or go for vegetarian oysters from Mushroom Table http://uktv.co.uk/food/localfoodhero/outlet/oid/1849, and try your hand at growing them at home
- Admire the bees (yes, live and working) from Orchid Apiaries http://www.tastesofanglia.com/regioninfo/member_details.asp?id=645
- And buy artisan, organic breads to make the most of your Suffolk honey, from south London’s Born and Bread bakery
- Presidium Montgomery Cheddar http://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk/CHEESES/montys.html and Stitchelton Blue Cheese from Neal’s Yard Dairy are purveyed by Farmstead, alongside their speciality: hand-made, small production French cheeses, directly sourced and matured in custom-built rooms.
- We are delighted to help launch another Fromagerie-inspired enterprise: Helen Smith and Attilio Bergamaschi’s La LodiGrana http://www.caseificiozucchelli-lo205.it , a family-produced Grana cheese made from the raw milk of Alpine cows grazing on local clover
- And to welcome Emmett’s renowned Suffolk hams http://www.emmettsham.co.uk/
- A complementary condiment, perhaps, from Norfolk & Suffolk Speciality Foods http://www.tastesofanglia.com/regioninfo/member_details.asp?id=684 with their ‘rich and complex relishes’, chutneys and mustards
- Single estate olive oils from a little further afield are supplied by Casa de l’Oli http://www.casadeloli.com/ from the groves of their family farm in rural Catalonia;
- And a journey to the home of Slow Food is promised via the Piemontese cheeses and salume from Borough Market’s Gastronomica http://uktv.co.uk/food/localfoodhero/outlet/oid/7284
- Stop by the Slow Food stands, of course, to buy specially imported Slow Food Presidium spices including vanilla, cardamom and saffron; Huehuetenango coffee http://www.slowfoodfoundation.com/eng/presidi/lista.lasso
- And ethical, quirky and colourful kitchenware, wineware, coffee-sack bags and snail-obsessed aprons sourced by Slow Food International www.slowfood.com
- Complement with natural table decorations by Steiner-inspired Hanne Lindberg
- Call in at the BBC Good Food stand for a foretaste of Slow Food’s presence in November’s London Show
- And finish, perhaps, at Canteen, http://www.canteen.co.uk/ Good Food Guide /LONDON RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR 2007 and Observer Food Monthly /BEST UK RESTAURANT 2007, for trencherman baps of spit roast pork as well as other deliciously fortifying foods.














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