Thursday, August 26, 2010

Food Festival Says No

In my quest to cook with a celebrity chef, I've already written to my favourite chef for a chance to be a guest in his kitchen (big clue there!) and this week I decided to write to the local council to see if I could cook with at least one of the celebrity chefs that would appear at this years Nottingham Food Festival. Unfortunately they said a big fat no, the reason being that it is a paid event and people may complain if they have paid to see a celebrity chef and instead get someone else as well. I'm sure given a chance I could be just as entertaining, but there we go! I fully understand their reasoning behind this and it was worth the try!
Oh well, back to the drawing board with that...

6 comments:

Phil Lowe said...

bummer! do they not know that you're local celeb and radio star?

Janette said...

Obviously not! I was prepared to do my juggling act and a few impressions as well...

Anonymous said...

Hi there,

Just to let you know the the Nottingham Food and Drink Festival isn't actually anything to do with the local council. If you look on their website, you'll see that it's an event organised by We Are Nottingham, the leisure business improvement district. This means that all the city's licensed premises pay into the BID and actually fund the festival completely themselves; it is run as a not-for-profit business and exists only to benefit local businesses and the community! Good luck with the rest of your list :)

Janette said...

Thanks for letting me know, apologies that I didn't recognise it was a We Are Nottingham event!

Tim said...

As long as the impressions are good then you might be able to change their mind BUT if they are bad then you might risk being banned from the whole event :P

Janette said...

I do a mean impression of Uncle Bryn from Gavin and Stacey, that's all I'm saying...