Beccles Food and Drink Festival
28 May, 10-4, Beccles
Following a successful return in 2021, Beccles Food and Drink Festival is back to celebrate a feast of culinary delights for 2022. The free Festival will feature over 50 food and drink stalls, many of them local artisan producers, as well as those from further afield in East Anglia. Based in the centre of the vibrant market town, the Festival will include cookery demonstrations and talks, world street food and children’s entertainment. A free Park and Ride shuttle service will run throughout the day from Beccles Quay, where additional parking will be available. Building on the successful formula of previous years, the Festival is set to repeat Fringe events in the local area two weeks either side of the main event day.
Vegan Cheese & Onion
When it comes to snacking, vegans can feel hard done by from the lack of choice and defaulting to a boring pack of ready salted. But, now, Fairfields Farm has converted to 100% vegan flavours with the launch of its new Vegan Cheese & Onion flavour. A delicious creamy cheese flavour with subtle hints of onion, joins Fairfields’ full range of vegan-friendly flavours which include Rib of Beef and Bacon & Tomato. Available now from The Co-op, Amazon and online from Fairfields, RRP 80p per 40g bag.
www.fairifleldsfarmcrisps.co.uk
Chunky chocolate
Love dark chocolate, but bored of the serious rhetoric? Ever wonder why milk chocolate gets to have all the fun? These are the questions new dark chocolate brand FATSO asked when creating their super chunky, personality-packed and 100% ethically made bars of dark chocolate deliciousness. A bar like you’ve never tried before, FATSO is setting dark chocolate on a collision course towards cool and bringing you the highest quality ingredients packed with big flavour combos that will leave you beaming. Find Fatso nationwide or buy online. RRP £5.95 per 150g bar.
Norfolk Amber Mead
If you want an alternative drink to enjoy in the sun then look no further. Local brewer John Costin creates three beautiful tastes of the Norfolk countryside; Wildflower Mead (semi-sweet), Woodland Mead (semi-dry) and Treasury Mead (barrelled). All are available to purchase from local suppliers and online – although the current batch of the Treasury Mead has sold out so it is worth keeping an eye out for when the new batch is on sale… I know I will be.
Mead is fermented honey. True mead involves the fermentation of the sugars in the honey to make alcohol. The mead John produces is a true delight and is complex yet accessible on the pallet and fragrant on the nose. If you haven’t tried this yet then you really should, it’s what summer in the garden was made for.