The Cheese & Wine Cookery Theatre
Full programme of events for April 2012 will be updated here soon. See below what we did last year.
Coordinated and hosted by Chef Valentina Harris
Autumn Cheese & Wine Festival 2011
Southbank Centre Square
Belvedere Road
SE1 8XX
Free admission
Demonstrations, tutored tastings and talks
As well as a wide range of stalls showcasing the highest quality cheeses and wines, there will be some exciting activities for you to take part in. Please note all the tutored tastings with Tim Atkin MW require a ticket and limited spaces are available.
Theatre Timetable
Watch chefs demonstrating recipes with cheese and wine and take part in tutored tastings.
Venue:
The Cookery Theatre,
Hayward Gallery Terrace,
(Off Southbank Centre Square),
Belvedere Road.
See below for full timetable
Friday 14th October
12:00 – 12:45
Valentina Harris – cooking demonstration – 3 Italian dishes. Valentina is the Chef Coordinator of the Cheese & Wine Festival and The Chocolate Festival, as well as our on stage host. A witty raconteur and chef demonstrator in her own right, Valetnina will start off our Cheese and Wine Cookery Theatre Sessions with 3 pasta dishes that feature cheese – Spaghetti Cacio e Pepe, la Carbonara, and Maccheroni ai 4 Formaggi, whilst keeping you entertained with stories and clever tips.
www.valentinaharris.com
13:00 – 13:45
Laura Amos of The Desert Deli – baking demonstration.
Laura is the amazing woman behind The Dessert Deli, supplying Luxurious Desserts of Exceptional Quality Handmade & Packaged. Available @ Fortnum & Mason & Selfridges Food Halls. Laura’s pedigree in terms of her pastry chef career is very impressive and she will join us at the Cheese & Wine Festival demonstrating her own very special version of that timeless Italian classic: Tiramisu.
www.thedessertdeli.co.uk
14:00 – 14:45
Signe Johansen – cooking demonstration. Signe Johansen, aka Scandilicious, is a cook, food writer and recipe developer who grew up in Norway but now lives in Bloomsbury, London. She trained at Leiths School of Food & Wine, and after graduating worked in the Experimental Kitchen at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck in Bray. Signe is a co-author of The Ultimate Student Cookbook and her blog,
www.signejohansen.com, specialises in modern Scandinavian cooking and baking.
Scandilicious: The Secrets of Scandinavian Cooking,, is her first Scandinavian cookbook and was published by Saltyard Books in May 2011 to widespread acclaim with one reviewer hailing Signe as the Nordic Nigella. Her second book, Scandilicious Baking, will be published by Saltyard Books in May 2012. Signe will be cooking and baking speciality Scandinavian dishes:
Snøfrisk (Norwegian goat’s cheese) on Peter’s Yard Swedish sourdough crispbread with smoked sea salt, radishes and raspberry vinegar, Jarlsberg & Fennel Muffins, Scandilicious Macaroni Cheese with five cheeses and Chocolate Daim cake with a secret ingredient (it’s Norwegian brown cheese).
www.signejohansen.com
15:00 – 15:45
Caldesi – cooking demonstration. Giancarlo, restaurateur, met Katie, artist, in 1997. He loved her painting, she loved his pasta. They now have two restaurants, a cookery school and two sons. At The Cheese & Wine Festival the inimitable Caldesi team will be demonstrating various authentic Italian dishes from their repertoire, all using Italian cheeses.
www.caldesi.com
16:00 – 16:45
John Quilter – cooking demonstration. John is a food terrorist and has been described as a food ‘Ring Master’ – where he brings performance and all elements of the show together, putting the fun back into food. Through his ‘Food Busking’ and ‘Food DJ’ (terms coined by him) he explores street food with street culture, and food becomes his guitar. He is very spontaneous, with anarchic food stunts that challenge people’s food fears – you have been warned! In this session, will prepare some of his very special dishes that feature cheese and wine.
www.johnquilter.com
17:00 – 17:45
Valentina Harris – cooking demonstration – spinach and ricotta ravioli. A reprise from our Chef Coordinator and hostess Valentina, who will give you a speedy demonstration of how to make Spinach and Ricotta stuffed Ravioli from scratch!
www.valentinaharris.com
19:00 – 20:00
SOUTHBANK CENTRE MEMBERS EVENT
Saturday 15th October
11:00 – 11:45
Valentina Harris – demonstration – a trio of classic Italian dishes. Valentina is the Chef Coordinator of the Cheese & Wine Festival and The Chocolate Festival, as well as our on stage host. A witty raconteur and chef demonstrator in her own right, Valentina will start day off with a demonstration involving her own version of 3 classic Italian dishes that use wine and cheese – Tiramisu, Zabaglione, and Saltimbocca alla Romana.
www.valentinaharris.com
12:00 – 12:45
Brian Oakwell from Auswine Online – Australian wine tasting.
Brian is the man behind this wine company, who specialise in importing wines from Australia. These wines are very special, but don’t just take our word for it – try them for yourself!
At the Cheese & Wine Festival, Brian will be sharing his passion for his very special wines in a tasting.
www.auswineonline.co.uk
13:00 – 13:45
Outsider Tart – baking demonstration. Outsider Tart will entertain us at The Cheese & Wine Festival with a demonstration of something deliciously cheesy! A couple of professional guys moved from New York to live and work in London – but discovered that good, wholesome cupcakes, sweet pies and fresh tarts were really hard to come by. Outsiders as they both are, they set about rectifying the situation by turning a favourite hobby into an award-winning business. Outsider Tart is an authentic American bake shop and cafe based in Chiswick which is devoted to all things sweet and yummy. Their first book, Baked in America, and with a foreword by Rachel Allen, is out now!
www.outsidertart.com
14:00 – 14:45
Meantime Brewery & La Cave a Fromage – cheese and beer pairing.
Asked about their tasting session at the Cheese & Wine Festival, Meantime Brewerey said: “What two foods are more made for each other than beer and cheese. It’s not just a question about wonderfully complimentary flavours but it is also the remarkable similarities in production. Cheese is beer backwards, or beer is cheese backwards. Take your pick. Both take remarkably simple raw materials but using very slight differences in method and – when done properly – a generous helping of time, to produce finished products of astonishing diversity and complexity. At Meantime we bring a brewer’s perspective to the selection of beers to match with cheese. The result are some fairly startling and tastebud tantalizing combinations of two of the world’s great foods.”
La Cave a Fromage are a fine food shop specialised in Cheese, charcuterie, wine and bread. They retail, in South-Kensington and Brighton, a large range of British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Deutsch products. They work very closely with some of their suppliers who provide them unique and exclusive products. They have also created a range of “La Cave” cheeses by transforming and ageing them.
www.meantimebrewing.com , www.la-cave.co.uk
15:00 – 16:00
Tim Atkin MW & Patricia Michelson – tutored cheese & Alsace wines tasting (With thanks to Alcase Wines) TICKETS SOLD OUT. This is an exclusive and rare opportunity to participate in a combined tutored tasting with Tim Atkin MW and Patricia Michelson.
Tim Atkin MW is a renowned wine journalist with an international following and appears regularly as a wine expert on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen. His website, www.timatkin.com, has recently won the award for international wine website of the year at the Louis Roederer Awards.
Brought Together with Patricia Michelson, founder and owner of LA FROMAGERIE cheese shops and author to renowned books ”The Cheese Room” and ”CHEESE”, the pair will combine wines and cheeses to create new taste sensations.
THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN SOLD OUT. Click on the green button for full list of wines and cheeses to be tasted. Tickets also include a goodie bag worth £35 courtesy of Food Network.
www.lafromagerie.co.uk , www.timatkin.com , www.alsacewine.com
16:00 – 16:45
Henry Harris + Patricia Michelson – cooking demonstration with La Fromagerie cheeses.
Chef Patron Henry Harris returns to The Cheese & Wine Festival this autumn, partnering Patricia in this unforgettable cookery demonstration centred around the very best of French cheeses. When asked about his restaurant, Henry simply says: “Just what I want to eat when I go out, good honest bourgeois cooking.”
Patricia’s love of cheese began up a mountain whilst she was skiing in Meribel. She returned to London with a wheel of Beaufort Chalet d’Alpage which she sold from her garden shed graduating to a stall in Camden market a year later. LA FROMAGERIE now comprises two award winning shops and a successful wholesale business along with Patricia’s award winning first book ‘The Cheese Room” to her name.
Patricia’s second book entitled CHEESE was published in April 2010 by Jacqui Small with a foreword by Jamie Oliver. A stunning book, it is a global journey of taste, tradition and terroir.
www.lafromagerie.co.uk , www.racine-restaurant.com
17:00 – 18:00
Tim Atkin MW – Organic and Bio-dynamic tutored tasting (With thanks to Vintage Roots). A wine tasting from our wonderfully entertaining Master of Wine. Tim Atkin MW is a renowned wine journalist with an international following and appears regularly as a wine expert on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen. His website
www.timatkin.com has recently won the award for international wine website of the year at the Louis Roederer Awards.
Click on the green button for full list of wines to be tasted and to book your tickets. Tickets also include a goodie bag worth £35 courtesy of Food Network.
www.vintageroots.co.uk
18:00 – 18:45
La Cave a Fromage – New British Cheeses tasting. La Cave a Fromage are a fine food shop specialised in Cheese, charcuterie, wine and bread. They retail, in South-Kensington and Brighton, a large range of British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Deutsch products. They work very closely with some of their suppliers who provide them unique and exclusive products. They have also created a range of “La Cave” cheeses by transforming and ageing them.
www.la-cave.co.uk
19:00 – 19:45
QED – Stink and drink tasting. Be sure to bring your gas masks as QED present some of Europe’s smelliest cheeses. When it comes to the pongy and the pungent, it can be difficult to sniff out wines to match. Supercharged with umami, such cheeses tend to clash with wines, reducing reds to metallic wrecks and overwhelming whites. QED will try to guide you past the pitfalls to some magnificent marriages.
www.qedlondon.org.uk
Sunday 16th October
11:00 – 11:45
Valentina Harris – cooking demonstration – spinach and ricotta ravioli. Our Chef Coordinator and hostess Valentina, will give you a demonstration of how to make Spinach and Ricotta stuffed Ravioli from scratch!
www.valentinaharris.com
12:00 – 12:45
Caldesi – Cooking demonstration – authentic Italian dishes. A reprise from the Caldesi team, preparing more authentic Italian dishes from their repertoire, using the best of Italian cheeses.
www.caldesi.com
13:00 – 13:45
Caroline Hope – Baking demonstration – sweet and savoury scones. Everybody seems to have their own closely guarded secret to ensure their scones are the best. In this demonstration, Caroline will impart her secret for making perfect cheese scones, time after time. They make an excellent alternative to crisps and nuts when serving wine as an aperitif or a substitute for bread. She will explain how you can adapt the recipe to for both savoury and sweet scones and the best way to serve them. Caroline has been teaching tea party baking skills for more than 15 years both in the UK and Japan.
www.teaandscones.org.uk
14:00 – 14:45
Tim Atkin MW – Beaujolais wines – tutored tasting (With thanks to Inter Beaujolais). Another wine tasting from our wonderfully entertaining Master of Wine.
Tim Atkin MW is a renowned wine journalist with an international following and appears regularly as a wine expert on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen. His website www.timatkin.com has recently won the award for international wine website of the year at the Louis Roederer Awards.
Click on the green button for full list of wines to be tasted and to book your tickets. Tickets also include a goodie bag worth £35 courtesy of Food Network.
www.timatkin.com , www.beaujolais.com
15:00 – 15:45
Steve Walpole – Considered to be one of the finest young chefs in the country, Essex boy Steve has been passionate about cooking since he started a Saturday job in a local restaurant at the age of 15 and went on to gain a whole host of college qualification, diplomas and awards. Steve has appeared on TV many times recently on a Channel 4 production with Heston Blumenthal discussing airline food.
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16:00 – 16:45
Tim Atkin MW – Chilean wine tasting (With thanks to Wines of Chile) - Final chance for a wine tasting with Tim Atkin!
Tim Atkin MW is a renowned wine journalist with an international following and appears regularly as a wine expert on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen. His website www.timatkin.com has recently won the award for international wine website of the year at the Louis Roederer Awards.
Click on the green button for full list of wines to be tasted and to book your tickets. Tickets also include a goodie bag worth £35 courtesy of Food Network.
www.timatkin.com , www.winesofchile.org
17:00 – 17:45
Rachel de Thample has worked in the kitchens of Marco Pierre White, Heston Blumenthal and Peter Gordon. She has been writing on food issues for over a decade: she was Commissioning Editor of Waitrose Food Illustrated for five years and contributed to the Borough Market Cookbook: Meat and Fish. Rachel is currently the Food Editor for the organic box scheme Abel & Cole. Her new cookbook,‘Less Meat, More Veg’ was hailed as ‘the cookbook of our time’ by Mark Bittman of the New York Times. She will demonstrate how to make a really simple homemade cheese, and a really luscious autumnal (and healthy) twist on macaroni and cheese.
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