Announcements for the 2012 Festival

We are excited to welcome Jo Thoenes, BBC Radio Oxford presenter, who will be hosting the cookery demos for the festival. Jo is a great supporter of local food producers and regularly covers food, produce and chefs on her Jo in the Afternoon show. Wallingfood Festival on BBC Radio Oxford - Bill Buckley Show. The festival had an hour on the Bill Buckley show on Sunday 6th May. A number of the producers who will be at the show provided samples of the great produce and came on air to talk about their passion. We had 5 tasty jams & chutneys from Kevin Doherty of Doherty's Preserves , Luke Hearn of Loddon Brewery provided 3 fantastic beers and Karyn Buck talked about the Spring Hill Farm and Garden Project. Hopefully, it gave listeners an insight of the flavour of the great producers food and drink that will be on show on the 26th May! Looking forward to seeing you then. VZUG UK - Sponsors of the VZUG Cookery Kitchen. Wallingford Food Festival Community Interest Company are proud an delighted to announce that VZUG have become the main sponsors of the festival for 2012. VZUG is a world leader in Steam Cooking and have generously agreed to support the festival with a professional kitchen for the demonstrations. Kevin John, Sales & Marketing Director VZUG UK, said “food festivals offer us all an opportunity not only to learn about ingredients but also how to cook them and the equipment that helps any cook produce great food. We are excited and pleased to be involved with the Wallingford Food Festival 2012 and look forward to working with the festival organisers to create a great day for the visitors.”. The Head Partnership are "certainly not your average solicitors" have kindly sponsored the Wallingford Food Festival 2012 and we would like to thank them for their support and commitment. Richard Rodway, Partner/Solicitor said, "we are keen to support the festival as it is evolving into a major local event on the calendar and provides a great opportunity to showcase great food, local producers and businesses. We are excited to be part of this great event.".  Publicity Oxford are a perfectly formed PR company based in Wallingford and are kindly helping the Festival with press and other related activities. Thanks to Catherine for her time and help this year!