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Thousands flock to flagship food festival – and it will return later in the summer

Visitors at the Jubilee weekend Malton Food Lovers Festival. Photograph: David Lindsay
Thursday 9 June, 2022 @ 10.08 am Food & drink, News YorkMix
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More than 40,000 hungry folk headed to the Malton Food Lovers Festival. But don’t worry if you missed it – another one is coming soon.

One of the country’s largest free-to-enter food festivals, it proved a hugely popular draw during the Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend.

That event is one of two Food Lovers Festivals lined up for 2022. The event returns over the August Bank Holiday weekend due to unprecedented demand.

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The pie’s the limit at Malton Food Lovers Festival

The spring festival served up more than 120 of Yorkshire’s finest artisan food and drink producers as well as street food vendors offering dishes from across the Commonwealth.

There was also a delicious buffet of local culinary talent performing demonstrations and giving insightful ‘Sofa Chats’ on the Yorkshire Baker Main Stage all weekend.

Saturday’s itinerary saw The Guardian’s acclaimed food journalist and author, Felicity Cloake, share some of her culinary secrets during her Red Sauce, Brown Sauce book signing and Q&A.

Archaeologist and University of York professor Dr Penny Bickle transported festival-goers back in time with her fascinating demonstration on ‘prehistoric cheese’.

Felicity Cloake on stage at the festival. Photograph: Richard Ponter

Felicity said: “It’s my first time at Malton Food Lovers Festival and I’ve been blown away! There are so many people, so many stalls selling incredible products, and I think it’s great.

“I would definitely come back and make a weekend of the festival – potentially with some walks thrown in to work up an appetite to eat my way around the whole place!”

This year’s headline sponsor, Yorkshire Baker, got involved in feeding the masses at the festival with its lovingly crafted pies and pastries.

The brand hosted a series of pop-up sessions over the weekend in partnership with a number of local businesses including Driffield-based Colemans Yorkshire Cider, and Circular Malton & Norton.

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