The Brighton and Hove Food and Drink Festival are running a Children’s Food Festival, comprised of FREE workshops and activities in the Brighton Dome, and linking with the Brighton & Hove Children’s Festival theme of Courage and Bravery. There will be “Super Tongue Challenge” workshops from Cookery Doodle Doo which will take children’s tastes buds on a scientific foodie adventure; Mini Chef Weird and Wonderful Food Journey where children are challenged to try mystery dishes from different countries; a Flavours of France challenge from Little Fidgets; and a “Blind Buckets” food bravery area in the Brighton Dome Foyer.
For full details about the Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival (30th March – 9th April 2012) please visit their website www.brightonfoodfestival.com
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Here are the full event listings! Please note that these events will be FREE but you will still need to book TICKETS from www.brightonfoodfestival.com/events.html
Mini Chef Weird and Wonderful Food Journey
Friday 6th and Saturday 7th April, the Mezzanine, Brighton Dome Foyer, at the Brighton Dome, 10am-1pm
‘The Mini Chef Weird and Wonderful Food Journey’ would like to invite children to join them on their journey to learn about the world’s weirdest and greatest food from 10 different countries. Are you brave enough to take the food challenge? For ages 3 and above.
The children will learn about the food and then get a chance to try 5 mystery dishes, the children will each receive one point for sampling the food, which will resemble some of the foods mentioned but entirely mock/vegetarian.
Numbers are limited – book FREE tickets in advance via www.brightonfoodfestival.com/events.html • Please note no more than 4 tickets per family • Parents must remain with their children at all times
Find out more about Mini Chef in the Kitchen.Super Tongue Challenge
Friday 6th and Saturday 7th April, Founders Room at the Brighton Dome, 2-6pm
Our tongues really are super; with over 10,000 teeny-tiny taste buds all over they can pick out a zingy lemon from a sweet peach without any trouble at all. But it is not always so easy.
In this workshop we take children’s tastes buds on a scientific foodie adventure. Children are invited to take part in our fun edible experiments designed to show the effect our other senses have on taste. Is your tongue up to the challenge?
Workshops will be starting on the hour, each lasting 40 minutes.
Numbers are limited – book FREE tickets in advance via www.brightonfoodfestival.com/events.html • Please note no more than 4 tickets per family • Parents must remain with their children at all times
French for Fidgets Challenge
Friday 6th and Saturday 7th April, Founders Room at the Brighton Dome
French for Fidgets challenge you to join them on an exciting journey through the flavours of France. Crunchy baguettes and mouth-watering croissants make way for less familiar delights from the froggy menu… Oh là là! Brave participants will explore a range of tasty and sometimes stinky petits morceaux and find out just where their comfort zone really lies.
You’ll also have the chance to pick up a few useful words and when you’re next sitting in a little bistrot don’t be surprised if your children ask for escargots instead of pizza. Join us if you dare! Bon courage!
Workshops at 2.35pm and 3.35pm on 6th & 7th April. For ages 3-11.
Numbers are limited – book FREE tickets in advance via www.brightonfoodfestival.com/events.html • Please note no more than 4 tickets per family • Parents must remain with their children at all times
Find out more about Little Fidgets.Food Bravery area, 10am-5pm
Friday 6th and Saturday 7th April in the Dome Foyer
Brave children are invited to fondle, squish and mash GIGANTIC buckets of food! Explore different textures from icky- sloppy custard to mooshy-smooshy beans. How far to you dare to dip?
This supervised food exploration with give children an opportunity to learn about texture and do the unthinkable – play with their food! Food bravery badges will be awarded to all children who dare to take part!
FREE, drop-in
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Live Food Show, Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome on 6th & 7th April:
And don’t miss the Live Food Show stage in the Corn Exchange, which will feature fabulous children’s food demonstrations by Cookery Doodle Doo’s Katie Elfer!
In the Cookery Doodle Doo ‘Dinky Demo’ at the Live Food Show, Katie Elfer will be providing a Popcorn Making Masterclass for Kids: Popcorn was made for theatre, so grab a seat and enjoy the explosions, transformations and delicious taste experiences in our first Live Food Show for children. Cookery Doodle Doo will be making fresh popcorn with unusual flavours – from ‘marmite’ and cheese to double-popping popping candy! There will be lots of tasters, ‘feelers’ and fun in this interactive live show.
FREE, drop-in
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Katie Elfer (Cookery Doodle Doo)
Katie Elfer is the founder of children’s cookery and food-craft events company – Cookery Doodle Doo. Their mission is to develop children’s confidence, creativity and long-term health through imaginative adventures with food: whether that is making pie-puppets or tortoise-tortellini!
Katie moved to Brighton for university and enjoyed the town so much that she never left. As a lover of all things foodie and craft-related it was only a matter of time before she started making puppets out of her pies and launched Cookery Doodle Doo. She lives with her husband and 4 year old son in Hove.
For recipes and details of upcoming classes visit: www.cookerydoodledoo.net
The Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival’s Spring Harvest Festival will be running from 30th March – 9th April 2012. Please see www.brightonfoodfestival.com for all the details!
[...] Come and join me at the Children’s Food Festival on 6th and 7th April from 10am-5pm on both days, at the Brighton Dome (in the Dome Foyer Bar) – there are still a small handful of FREE tickets left for the food workshops for children, all based on the theme of the Brighton & Hove Children’s Festival – Bravery and Courage. The workshops are run by Mini Chef in the Kitchen; Cookery Doodle Doo and Little Fidgets. And don’t miss the Food Bravery challenges also in the Dome Foyer Bar 10am-5pm on 6-7th April: Brave children are invited to fondle, squish and mash GIGANTIC buckets of food! Explore different textures from icky- sloppy custard to mooshy-smooshy beans. How far to you dare to dip? This supervised food exploration with give children an opportunity to learn about texture and do the unthinkable – play with their food! Food bravery badges will be awarded to all children who dare to take part! FREE For more details please see: http://www.childfriendlybrighton.co.uk/spring-harvest-childrens-food-festival [...]