The food that we eat and the drink we drink (during the Olympics)

Giant Teapot with Runner and young observer - Wallingford

Faces in the Teapot - Wallingford and below, The Three Pears - Wallingford

Frollicking Sheep with young girl imitating it at Wallingford

The Wallingford Food Festival 26th May 2012

Fitting that the first date on the tour should be a Food Festival.

What we eat and drink is so important. We don't want it to make us fat. We want it to taste good. We don't want it to have poisons lurking in it.

So we trust the Powers That Be to make sure that the food we eat is tasty, healthy and not too fattening.

This is to be the Greenest Olympics ever, or so the British organisers have proudly announced. What companies like MacDonalds, Coca Cola and Dow Chemicals (manufacturers of the Pesticides) are doing there remains a mystery.

The Wallingford Food Festival reminded us how healthy and tasty true English and British food can be. The chefs demonstrated how careful they are of the method of production and sources of the ingredients they use to conjure up these fantastic dishes.

Yonder Cloud

The Organising Chefs

Paul Bellchambers of The Late Chef in Moulsford, Oxfordshire supplied the Pork Pies - made with locally reared pork and locally milled flour which were both healthy and delicious - to the exhibition 'Race Into Time' at its opening at The Gallery in Cork Street, London. This was one example of a dish that British Chefs could have created at the Olympics for the world to know and remember.


The Wallingford Food Festival invited the exhibition 'Race Into Time' to show at the Festival. In addition to our pictures of the sculptures at the festival, much more on the Wallingford Food Festival site and on the sites of freelance photographers including Catherine Hadler

One can read all about the Festival on
The Wallingford Food Festival