6th Tooting Foodival, this weekend 28th and 29th September. All welcome!
Transition Town Tooting present this year’s two-day Tooting Foodival which promises to be even bigger and better than the previous 5.
Foodival is a celebration of local growing and cooking
– with a sustainable slant.
This year we’ve made a comprehensive booklet which describes all the whys and whats of the Foodival – plus giving more background on the many partners. It’s a proud record of community activity in Tooting.
Click here to read or download a copy of the Foodival booklet
In summary, the Tooting Foodival is a free event for all the family which
runs over two days:
– on Saturday 28th Sept from 11:00-4:00 at Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW 17 7EW
– on Sunday 29th Sept from 12:00-4:00 in Tooting Market, 21-23 Tooting High Street SW17 0SN
Cooking demonstrations on the Saturday at Mushkil Aasaan by: Mango Palace, Rick’s Restaurant, Volker Nissen, and guidance on healthy eating from Morgan Serres
Local restaurants who are cooking for the Sunday feast in Tooting Market, using the local produce collected on Saturday, include: Al Mirage, Lahore Karahi, Mis Bar Mleczny, Naked Loaf, Pooja, Rick’s Restaurant, Spice Village
Also on Sunday in the market there’ll be music and comedy from: Jonathan Buckley, Vincent Burke, The Bara Bara Band, Sam Quinn. Plus local stands and more activities…many thanks to all!
Top Tooting Cook
There is still time to enter this fun and informal competition.
See the video clip on the right of this blog and please call Mal on 07980 611704 if you are interested to take part or find out more and see the current contenders here.
Would you like to see the ‘competition rules’? Please click here. Entrants to the cooks’ competition will take away fruit and veg on Saturday to cook overnight for Sunday’s event at Tooting Market from noon to 4pm, vying to be crowned Top Tooting Cook.
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| We grew the wheat in the Tooting Community Garden – then we ground it into flour, in Tooting – then Naked Loaf used the flour in sourdough bread – and it’s soon to be eaten in the Tooting Foodival! |
Why do we run the Foodival? This will whet your appetite:
Foodival has always relied on donations of fruit and vegetables from local growers, and on support from local enterprises and home cooks who help create the Sunday feast.
Even in the busy city environs of Tooting, many people are growing fruit and vegetables in their back gardens or allotments, in pots or on windowsills. Foodival aims to show that locally grown food is good for you and can be as tasty as food imported from elsewhere, while of course having a much smaller carbon footprint.
We will showcase dishes with close to zero food miles.
And there will be more to get involved with on both days from local enterprises, community groups and artists.
We’d like to say a big thank you to Wandsworth Borough Council for event support through the WBC Eco Fund.
Come along and enjoy the fun,
and we look forward to seeing you there!