Weald & Downland museum to welcome celebrity chefs

Dean Edwards and Chris Bavin will be the special guests in a line up of exciting events taking place during the festival weekend.

Liz de Bruijn-Willis, events manager at the museum, said: “We are delighted to be welcoming such popular chefs to our Spring Food Festival and look forward to seeing them in action in our Cookery Theatre.”

Dean Edwards, a Masterchef finalist and frequent judge, is renowned for his family-friendly cooking and cheerful persona.

He became a household name following regular appearances on ITV’s Lorraine and This Morning. Dean is also the author of three books and will be holding book signings and cookery demonstrations in the Cookery Theatre during the Saturday of the Spring Food Festival.

Chris Bavin, co-judge on Britain’s Best Home Cook and co-presenter of BBC1’s hugely popular series Eat Well For Less, will also be holding demonstrations and book signings, taking place on the Sunday of the event.

Chris is passionate about teaching children all about the provenance of their food and encouraging them to eat more healthy fruit and vegetables.

The Spring Food Festival will take place on Saturday, May 2 to Sunday, May 3 between 10.30am and 5pm and will feature, along with the top chefs, gourmet stallholders selling local produce, food & drink tastings, live music, roving entertainment as well as historic heritage walks and talks. During the weekend, visitors are welcome to explore and discover the many on-site historical buildings hosting traditional food demonstrations, cookery and brewery in the collection of rescued historic homes as well as visiting period gardens that show what foods and herbs were traditionally grown for culinary and medicinal uses.

Standard admission prices apply with tickets available to purchase in advance. The seats for the cookery demonstrations are limited and will be on a first come, first served basis. To find out more information about the festival or to buy tickets visit www.wealddown.co.uk