CHEFS with eight Michelin stars between them will be demonstrating at Le Cordon Bleu Henley Food Festival.
The line-up, unveiled this week, features top names including John Campbell and Atul Kochhar alongside local chefs such as Paul Clerehugh and Tom Kerridge.
But Antony Worrall Thompson, from Harpsden, will not be there because he will be filming in Brunei. His spokeswoman said: “Antony will be very sorry not to attend as he is a big fan of the festival and wishes it well.”
Jason Atherton also pulled out this week for “family reasons” but organisers say they will replace him.
UKTV Food’s Market Kitchen show has confirmed it will be coming to the festival with its own “mini kitchen” along with Aaron Craze, winner of Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen in 2002.
Italian chefs Giancarlo Caldesi and Gino d’Acampo will be performing a double act in the Caldesi A’Amici in Campagna arena and Mike Robinson will demonstrate how to skin and cook game.
Other highlights include a patisserie display by Julie Walsh of Le Cordon Bleu cookery school and the final of the amateur chef cook-off challenge, judged by Mr Robinson and chef instructor Stuart Connibear.
Festival organiser Chris Barber, who was Prince Charles’s personal chef for 11 years, said: “We are very excited about the quality of the chef demonstrators this year, as are all the chefs. I am confident we will be seeing cooking of the highest order.”
The festival, of which the Standard is a silver sponsor, takes place on the weekend of May 16 and 17 at Phyllis Court Club in Henley. The line-up is as follows:
Saturday
11am Food writer Mary Berry.
11.45am John Campbell, of The Vineyard, Stockcross.
12.30pm Phil Howard, of The Square, Mayfair.
1.15pm Mike Robinson, of The Pot Kiln, Yattendon.
2pm Daniel Galmiche, of The Forbury, Reading.
3.30pm Atul Kochhar, of Benares, London.
4.15pm Julie Walsh, of Le Cordon Bleu.
5pm Alan Murchison, of L’Ortolan, Shinfield, and La Becasse, Ludlow.
5.45pm Paul Clerehugh of the Crooked Billet, Stoke Row, and London Street Brasserie, Reading.
6.45pm Amateur chef cook-off final.
Sunday
11am John Campbell.
11.45am Mike Robinson.
12.30pm Adam Johnson, of Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons.
1.15pm Theo Randall, of InterContinental, London.
2pm Remy Joly, of Mya Lacarte, Caversham,
2.45pm Jerome Leopold, of The Castle Restaurant, Hurst.
3.30pm Mike North, of the Nut Tree Inn, Murcott.
4.15pm Tom Kerridge, of the Hand and Flowers, Marlow.
5.00pm Giancarlo Caldesi, of Caldesi in Campagna, Bray, and Gino D’Acampo.
For more information, visit www.henleyfoodfestival.co.uk
Published on 05 May 2009
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