We’re busy confirming people to run workshops over the Festival weekend, so please keep popping back to see who will be with us in 2010, we’ll be updating it daily right up until the festival. In the meantime, we are delighted to confirm the following:

SUPERSQUASH comes to Suffolk!

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Eastfeast and the Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival present ‘Supersquash’, a competition for heroic and homegrown vegetables. We are inviting schools along the East Coast of Suffolk to be part of an exciting new project to grow the largest celebration of squash Suffolk has ever seen.

Eastfeast are inviting local schools to plant their seeds, either with teachers at school or with their families at home, as soon as possible in April 2010. We would like to exhibit your homegrown entries at the Food Festival as a way of sharing the work of your school with a wider audience. The competition is a fun way to share ideas whilst also helping to show how schools in Suffolk are bringing food alive for young people and their families.

Our Supersquash competition has a number of categories so far but feel free to invent your own and submit a wild squash entry:

The biggest squash
The smallest squash
The funniest squash
The most colourful squash
The thinnest squash
The most recognisable squash
Best Squash character (think Mr Potato Head)
Most adventurous squash (for the squash that has travelled to the most unusual destinations, with a record of his/her travels – real or imaginary)

Best squash recipes
Best squash stories
Best squash poems
Best squash experiments

If you want help from Eastfeast, to help Eastfeast with this project or to take part in the Supersquash challenge, do contact Louisa Thorp on 01728 454532.

ABOUT EASTFEAST:

Eastfeast is a team of professional gardeners, artists and teachers that helps schools deliver more effective learning based on working a school allotment through the seasons, culminating in a community feast. We work with students and teachers to develop the outdoor classroom, cultivating shared learning about the world in which we live through food and art. www.eastfeast.co.uk

WORKSHOP: EASY ENTERTAINING AT 80! with Guy de Moubray

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Guy was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1925, the son of a colonial civil servant. He studied Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London – 1942/3, served in the Army 1943 – 1946, fought the Japanese in the teak jungles of Burma in 1944/5, was present at the Liberation of Singapore in September 1945 and personally rescued his parents from prison camp. Trinity College, Oxford 1946/8. He worked in H.M.Treasury 1948/50. Served with the Bank of England from 1950 to 1976 with many senior jobs including Chief Economist in the mid-1960s. Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of Morocco 1976/78, then a management consultant until the age of 70. After his wife died in 1999 Guy started to entertain and write and publish his own cookery books, including Dinner at Eighty and Dinner for One. Guy will be guiding you through his ideas and tips for simple entertaining enabling you to spend as much time as possible with your guests! He will be selling copies of his cookery books too. For more information see www.buxlow.com.