October News

1. Market alert!

Sunday 4 October, Corn Street the usual lipsmacking array of this and that, all indispensable for sustenance during the arduous week ahead. If you missed September’s market due to holidays, half marathons and other mishaps, come on down.

2. Event alert!

Stick this in your blackberries: November 10th, our member Andrea Leeman, authoress of A taste of Somerset and A Taste of Devon, makes it a trilogy with the long awaited publication of A Taste of Gloucestershire. Slow Food Bristol is staging a launch buffet, with recipes from Andrea’s book and the presence we hope of some of the producers featured in it .And we’re very pleased to be doing it in the Clifton Club, whose august columns and perfectly elevated windows gaze down West Mall/Caledonia from the centre of the Mall (in Clifton, Bristol, that is). A blue chip addition to the list of interesting joints Slow Bristol is wheedling its way into. Full details available v soon. And also news of further events in coming weeks and months.

3. It’s official! :Slow Food Bristol is really cool!

To Slow Bristol members, demonstration of cutting edge chic may come as naturally as falling off a bar stool, but it’s still heartwarming to receive official endorsement. At lunch earlier this week with Catherine Gazzoli, the “CEO” of Slow Food UK, we learned that the Slow Cuban Night this summer had attracted lots of comment around the country. What sort of comment? “That it was really cool”

4. Goodbye Keith Floyd.

Floyd was a significant presence for the good in the Bristol catering sphere.We’re contemplating staging an Event around his gastronomic legacy. News before long. In meantime, see report on Bristol’s adieu to Floyd in www.theboulevardier.co.uk. This is a site which will shortly commence coverage of West Country gastronomic matters. Contacts from informants and contributors welcomed.