Student Life August 2019
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STOWMARKET FOOD<br />
& DRINK FESTIVAL<br />
BY NAOMI DAY<br />
On Sunday 7th July, Stowmarket Town<br />
Council hosted their second Food &<br />
Drink Festival. Following the success of<br />
their first festival in 2018, this year was<br />
set to be bigger and better with more<br />
stalls and more variety of food & drink<br />
available. The streets started to fill just<br />
after 10am, when the festival officially<br />
opened, with some stalls selling out of<br />
products by 2pm!<br />
The stalls included a mix of street<br />
food to enjoy on the day and a variety<br />
of food and drink to take home and<br />
enjoy later. The majority of stalls sold<br />
items from Suffolk including gin from<br />
Stowmarket and sausages made in<br />
Newmarket. You could also find a range<br />
of foods from around the world such<br />
as Polish sausages and different curry<br />
pastes. Not only were there different<br />
savoury foods to try, there were also<br />
lots of sweet baked treats such as<br />
donuts, cakes and ice creams.<br />
There were a range of activities<br />
available to take part in on the day,<br />
including a kitchen theatre at the<br />
John Peel Centre with chefs from local<br />
restaurants such as The Grazing Sheep<br />
in Ipswich, and children’s activities<br />
for the whole family to be involved in<br />
such as circus skills and decorate (and<br />
eat!) your own cupcake. Also at the<br />
John Peel Centre, there was an opportunity<br />
to enjoy some locally produced gins in their<br />
pop up gin bar! The team created a secret<br />
chef competition for the event which involved<br />
collecting stickers from each stall which had<br />
a toy chef on show. On returning their leaflet,<br />
completed with all nine stickers, the entrants<br />
would be in with a chance to win a family<br />
ticket to The Regal Theatre in Stowmarket.<br />
It was a great opportunity to be part of<br />
the team organising this event, specifically<br />
helping to promote the event through<br />
creating various marketing materials and<br />
getting the word out through social media.<br />
It was also a very enjoyable event to work at<br />
on the day, meeting lots of members of the<br />
community and gaining vital feedback from<br />
all of the stalls. This was a very successful<br />
event for Stowmarket, bringing lots of people<br />
from around the county into the town and<br />
enjoying some of the great things which<br />
Stowmarket has to offer.<br />
64 • AUGUST <strong>2019</strong> • STUDENT LIFE
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