This is a Fish

The Dartmouth Food Festival (10th Anniversary). Lovely sunny day and biting cold. Free samples, displays and cookery demonstrations. Tom Parker Bowles on left, the one on right with the fish also well known in cookery circles but I didn't catch his name. Mrs Mover and I circulated among the displays as if we knew what we were doing, commenting knowledgeably about chorizo sausage and trying not to spend any money which would go ten times further in Aldi. We got by on a very strange diet of anything going free, chocolate with lime and chilli, bits of chutney and marmalade on little bits of crackers, tiny pieces of award winning sausages, Guinness crisps, miniscule bits of Devon cheese, all washed down with thimblefuls of elderflower wine and hot ginger beer. We kept this up for most of the day rather like blue tits at a bird feeder and after about four hours were almost full. The demos were very good, it's wonderful to see really talented people effortlessly explaining and demonstratiing how to cook a lobster, scallops, oysters, etc. but it seemed to go in one ear and out the other. We came home, inspired, moved, and enthused, and had sausage (award winning), egg, and chips for tea. Dish of the day was a difficult choice, but we thought the Guinness crisps by local firm Burt's were terrific.

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