Another day another food festival: Thame

Feeling in a festive mood, a week after the food festival in Abergavenny, Penny, Lara and I went across to Thame Food Festival. It is a huge event and the whole town is closed for one day. It is great as it is all free.
By the time we arrived at 12pm it was pretty packed and it was quite hard to see all the stalls. We did manage to stop for a Thai for lunch from a Thai stall, whose restaurant is based in Thame itself.

There were a great selection of chefs doing demos throughout the day including Tom Kerridge from The Hand and Flowers, Adam Simmonds (from Danesfield House), Lotte Duncan, who is off the tele, and Raymond Blanc, who is the festival patron.

We went to a scone demo with a couple called Grace and Liam. They have just published a book called The Little Book of Scones. They bake and sell scones every Saturday under the company name, All'Scone. They have day jobs during the week in London then get home on a Friday night and bake in the kitchen, which has just one oven, until 2am. They live in a shared house!

In the morning they traipse across London carrying the scones on trollies on the bus, before flogging them.
They made Pesto and Chorizo scones, which they served warm with butter, cream cheese and onion chutney. It was the most delicious, salty and moist scone I have ever had. I was in love!
We also sampled their Nutella and Pistachio samples, which again were delicious. They had cream sandwiched between them, were smothered in nutella then covered in pisatchio nuts!
I was fascinated by their story and bought their book and hope to try out some of the recipes soon.

I didn't really buy much else besides a Rooibos Strawberry and Vanilla tea from the Rutland Tea Company, which is a beautiful fruit tea.

Thame Food Festival is certainly worth going to- but arrive early as it all sells pretty quickly.