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This October, take your tastebuds on a gastronomic adventure to Elsecar as the annual Flavours Food Festival returns for a third year.
Jean-Christophe Novelli
And this year promises to be bigger, better and tastier than ever with a fusion of food, festival-style music and family fun for all.
On Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st October, Elsecar Heritage Centre will be transformed into a bustling food and drinks market serving up a weekend of cooking demonstrations, artisan food stalls and live entertainment.
Across the weekend, there will be a variety of celebrity and local chefs taking to the Ironworks arena to perform live cookery demonstrations and hold meet and greet opportunities. Once dubbed the World’s Sexiest Chef by the
New York Times, our nation’s favourite French chef, Jean-Christophe Novelli is the star attraction for the festival’s opening day. A four-time Michelin star and five AA Rosette award-winning chef, Novelli started his
career in a bakery in his hometown of Arras, northern France aged 14 before becoming the private chef for France’s banking family, the Rothschilds, age 20.
He moved to the UK 25 years ago and has since been head chef at the Four Seasons on Hyde Park, ran TV chef Keith Floyd’s pub, The Malsters in Devon, and opened four of his own restaurants across the world.
Along with his culinary critical acclaim which saw him win the prestigious Egon Ronay Dessert of the Year Award and be voted Chefs’ Chef of the Year by his peers, Jean-Christophe also inspires a new generation of chefs at his Novelli Academy which he opened in 2005 at his Hertfordshire home and which was voted one of the world’s top 25 cookery schools.
‘‘Once dubbed the World’s Sexiest Chef by the New York Times, our nation’s favourite French chef, Jean-Christophe Novelli is the star attraction for the festival’s opening day.’’
During the day on Saturday, Novelli will be hosting two 45-minute slots in the Ironworks where he will showcase a selection of his favourite recipes for you to recreate at home.
Joining Jean-Christophe at the chefs’ table are Indian food writer, Mira Manek, and masters of meat, the Pigott Brothers.
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Having suffered with digestive issues and looking for a healthier lifestyle, Mira started to experiment with Indian cuisine, creating lighter, modern versions of traditional vegetarian and vegan recipes from the Gujarati region of India where her mother and grandmother originate.
As a wellness advocate, Mira’s four performances across the weekend will highlight how spices can have healing properties in sweet and savoury dishes. From her celebrated Indian summer salad to chickpea flour pancakes, saffron lime compote you can drizzle on a pot of yoghurt and granola to a warming turmeric chai, Mira’s healthy recipes prove that wholesome food doesn’t have to be boring and bland. After impressing celebrity chefs Rosemary Shrager and Giorgio Locatelli on BBC2’s Big Family Cooking Showdown, the Pigott Brothers will be showing off their mix of skills to inspire other families to cook together. Young brothers Matthew, Edward and Sam, aged 28, 25 and 22 respectively, were runners up in last year’s show and became renowned for their love of street food and family sharing dishes. Influenced by worldly cuisines from Mexico to Vietnam, their recipes across the weekend will
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