Monday 27 May
Hosted by Airy Fairy’s Anwen Burrows
Anwen Burrows has been the proprietor of Airy Fairy, a gift shop and vegetarian café on London Road, for almost 20 years. In recent years she has fed with her passion for working in performance in a variety of ways, too. Prior to opening Airy Fairy Anwen had extensive experience in the food and beverage industry, including working as a banqueting waitress whilst studying for her A Levels, a head waitress in a five-star hotel, festival catering and a pub landlady.
In the Airy Fairy café, Anwen is keen on producing a menu which is organic and fair trade. With the local crafts she sells at the cafe, there is a strong emphasis on working with artists who upcycle or use recycled materials. These passions of her love of food, green principles and performance are being brought together to bring this new twist to the regular programme offered by the Sheffield Food Festival.
11:00AM – READY STEADY COOK!
A cook off between two of the city’s local fresh and sustainable produce heroes, Regather’s Gareth Roberts and Food Works’ Emily will be showing just how much more life and taste is left in food that is wasted. The whole session will use ingredients sourced from Food Works and neither Emily or Gareth will know what they are getting to use till it is put in front of them on the day.
11:50AM – BREZ BARWISE – FOOD WORKS
Chef Brez educates us with a cooking demo which uses mostly leftover bread to create some incredible dishes.
12:40PM – LOCKSLEY GIN
The history of gin and the distillation process as presented by the team from Sir Robin of Locksley Gin. A basic tutorial on how one could theoretically distil at home plus samples of their full range of gins throughout the talk.
1:30PM – MONICA SAWHNEY HALDAR – SPICE CLUB
Monica will be showcasing how to make a lip-smacking Indian street food snack which you can re-create in your very own kitchen using some pantry staples and fragrant spices.
2.30PM – BUTCHER & CATCH
Butcher & Catch’s Theatre Kitchen cookery demonstration brings together the very best that Sheffield has to offer in terms of locally-reared and sourced meat, paired with the finest selection of fish and seafood that we have available around the British coastline.
3:30PM –JAMES LAVIN – OTTOMEN
James will be presenting a demonstration on an Otto classic and original take on the pastille, aka the ‘Otto sexy pie’. Encased in fresh, Armenian filo pastry, the amount of flavour bursting out of
this pie is unmeasurable, packing all the superfoods that you can shake a stick at and fragranced with the original ‘Otto’ spices. It’s a roasted vegetable pie on steroids!
4:30PM – CHRISTIE MCINTOSH – ABBEYDALE BREWERY
Christie, who has been a valued part of Abbeydale Brewery’s team since 2016, will talk you through the history of the brewery before exploring the wonders of beer. He will walk you through the
different styles from ancient technologies through to modern day craft beer. Covering how differences in yeast, malt, hops and water can affect the nature and variety of the end product, with the opportunity to see, feel and sniff some of the varieties most commonly found in Abbeydale’s beers.
