Taste Cumbria Food Festival Embraces Twitter Technology
Taste Cumbria Food Festival embraces Twitter technology in launch of recipe archive.
If you have a traditional recipe for Cumberland Rum Nicky, Pepper Cake, or Apple Tansy then the organisers of this year's Taste Cumbria Food Festival want to hear from you.
As part of the annual celebration of the county's best food and drink, the festival - which returns to Cockermouth on September 24 and 25, is compiling an online archive dedicated to preserving some of the county's most historic recipes.
We thought that a recipe archive would be a fantastic legacy for this year’s food festival, giving proud Cumbrians and those further afield, access to some of those forgotten gems from the past - such as the hearty, wholesome dishes that sustained the hard working hill farmers and fishermen against the region's often challenging environment.
From the craggy fells to our beautiful coastline, Cumbria is a natural larder of fine ingredients, which has inspired countless home cooks over the centuries. This is a great way for food lovers to discover or even rediscover some fantastic regional specialities.
Taste Cumbria has a loyal following on the Twitter social networking website, so we thought that it would be fun to see if people could follow our Cumbrian twecipes in the comfort of their own kitchen! It’s been quite a challenge to distill down some of these recipes into 140 characters or less, some of these recipes are so short and to the point you could send them in a text message!
Katie Read, West Cumbria Tourism Manager
The recipes, which can be for starters, main courses or desserts will be uploaded to the Taste Cumbria festival website in the lead-up to September's festival.
The Festival team will also be posting selected Cumbrian specialities (or twecipes) on Taste Cumbria's Twitter page, which feature recipes containing a succinct 140 characters or less.
To demonstrate how an everyday recipe can be reduced to its constituent parts, here's an example for Grasmere Gingerbread:
Wrm oven 170C. Btr 20cm sndwch tin. Mix Flr, bicarb, crm trtr, ginr, btr. +Brwn sugar+syrup. Spread in tin. Bake 45-50mins. Cool 15mins. Cut
To submit your recipe to the Taste Cumbria Recipe Archive, simply send a full list of ingredients along with instructions of how to make the dish to info@tastecumbria.com Photographs of the finished dish can also be included.
The Taste Cumbria Food Festival is billed as the perfect weekend event for anyone with an interest in regional food and drink, with a wide variety of events and activities taking place throughout the town during the weekend as well as demonstrations by an impressive line-up of celebrity chefs including The Hairy Bikers, Matt Tebbutt, Tom Kitchin and Stefan Gates.
Tickets to the festival and all the Celebrity Chef Demonstrations are available now from the official festival website www.tastecumbria.com and a full calendar of festival events will be available to download in early September.
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Taste Cumbria is funded by the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) funded by Defra and the EU. The festival is organised and managed by Cumbria Tourism and SK Events.