Shawclough & Healey March 2020

Rochdale
Food & Drink
Festival Returns
TV presenter Chris Bavin
and ‘Gastronaut’ Stfan Gates
among the highlights of Rochdale
Food & Drink Festival’s 2020 line-up
Visitors to this year’s Rochdale Food & Drink Festival, which
returns on Saturday 4 April in and around Rochdale Town Hall
– are in for another treat.
Television presenter Chris Bavin will be hosting the day, with Rochdale’s Andrew Nutter, Tom McNeeney,
Austin Hopley and Adolfus Lewis among the local chefs cooking at the festival this spring. ‘Gastronaut’
Stefan Gates will be performing his energetic food and science shows on the family stage, with more
guests to be announced.
Bavin, presenter of BBC1’s popular ‘Eat Well for Less’ and a ‘Britain’s Best Home Cook’ judge is also a
former greengrocer. He will be returning to town having appeared at Rochdale Feel Good Festival in
2016. Before his television career took off he ran his green grocer business, ‘The Naked Grocer’, twice
winning the ‘National Independent Retailer of the Year’ award. His long running ‘Eat Well For Less’
television series with Masterchef’s Gregg Wallace sees them helping families across the UK, proving
good food doesn’t have to cost the earth. He also has a great interest in farming and all areas of fresh
produce. He’s an active supporter of reducing food waste and his first solo cookbook ‘Good Food, Sorted’,
was published earlier this year. Chris’s brand new book ‘Fakeaway’ features 100 simple healthy recipes
for takeaway-inspired meals that needn’t feel like junk food!
Local star chef and festival favourite Andrew Nutter has had an
amazing career since coming runner-up in the National Junior
Cook of the Year competition aged just 13-years-old. Seven years
later he launched ‘Nutters’ Restaurant, which celebrated its 25th
anniversary last year. He’s won multiple awards, including
Lancashire Chef of the Year, Restaurant of the Year, and ‘Rochdale
Man of the Year.’ In 2016 he opened gastropub ‘The Bird At Birtle.’
Popular TV presenter and Gastronaut Stefan Gates will be
performing on the family stage. Stefan blends food with science
and laughter, engaging and educating both children and adults
with spectacular experiments, explosions, rockets and edible
chemical reactions! Renowned for his quirky style and exciting
live shows, Stefan has presented over 20 television series
including the acclaimed CBBC series Incredible Edibles and
Gastronuts (CBBC), food science series Harvest (BBC2), Food
Factory (BBC1), E Numbers: An Edible Adventure (BBC2) and
most recently Secrets of Your Supermarket Food (Channel 5).
His most recent book is Science You Can Eat (Dorling Kindersley).
HOST: Food favourite Chris Bavin, Tom McNeeney, head chef at local family pub The Oxford and a
presenter of BBC1’s popular ‘Eat Well for
familiar face on the area’s culinary scene will be cooking at the
Less’ and a ‘Britain’s Best Home Cook’
judge will be at Rochdale Food & Drink festival. He last appeared at the event in 2018 and attracted a
Festival 2020.
capacity crowd at Rochdale Feel Good Festival back in 2016.
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