EAT! Festival:
A Roman Banquet @ Great North Museum: Hancock

It’s a well-known fact that Hadrian’s wall would never have been completed without the nutritional help of stottie cakes and brown ale…

As part of this year’s EAT! Festival, Newcastle’s Great North Museum: Hancock will be recreating a lavish Roman banquet to give guests a real flavour of the past.

Feast like a Roman of old – as so many have done before! – against the backdrop of this magnificent museum.

Guests will get the opportunity to taste some authentic Roman recipes recreated for a 2010 audience (with some more modern dishes also part of the mix) and will also hear from an expert on what life was really like in Roman Britain, including an insight into the dishes themselves.

Tickets: £39.95 per person, see website for full details

Date:
Thursday 17th June 2010
Banquet starts with a drink at 6.30pm!

Opening Hours:
Monday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Tuesday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Wednesday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Thursday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Sunday 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Admission is FREE.

Address:

Great North Museum: Hancock

Barras Bridge

Newcastle upon Tyne

Tyne and Wear

NE2 4PT

Tel: 0191 222 6765

Great North Museum: Hancock on Directory of Newcastle upon Tyne
Great North Museum: Hancock Website

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EAT! Newcastle Food and Drink Festival 2010

EAT! NewcastleGateshead is partnering with DFDS Seaways for the EAT! At Sea Mini Cruise break to Amsterdam.

From NewcastleGateshead, across the North Sea to Amsterdam and back again!

From 6.00pm on Friday 18 June 2010 to Sunday 20 June 2010, including around 5 hours in Amsterdam city centre!

EAT! events on board will include

- North East star chefs Terry Laybourne (Café 21) and Dave Kennedy (Brasserie Black Door) join forces with the DFDS Seaways chefs in the galley kitchen. Diners can choose between a North East Gourmet Menu in the Blue Riband Restaurant or an authentic Scandinavian Smorgasbord in the 7 Seas restaurant.
- A Food Heroes mini market featuring some of the North East’s best producers – Trees Can’t Dance, Davenports Chocolates, Wylam Brewery, Chainbridge Honey Farm and many more. These artisans will be on board hosting tastings and demonstrations
- Brush up your mixology skills and empty out your drinks cabinet with a series of cocktail masterclasses hosted by John Collingwood of Want To Impress
- Whet your appetite at the cookery demonstration theatre or late night cocktail party, both on deck
- Join Alistair Gilmour, award-winning beer writer, who hosts a series of tutored tastings of beers from both sides of the North Sea.
- There’s a giant ship-shaped cake for everyone on board to share and yes, they’re showing the World Cup too!

Links:

EAT! at Sea on Facebook

EAT! at DFDS Seaways

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EAT! NewcastleGateshead will take place from Saturday 12th to Sunday 27th June 2010 at locations around the city.

EAT! NewcastleGateshead is a festival which passionately advocates to all the pleasures of creating and sharing good food and drink in the North East.

Cakebook and EAT! 2010

On Sunday June 20th 2010, as part of EAT! NewcastleGateshead, a giant model of the twin cities will be built of cakes.

100 iconic buildings and structures have been chosen and an online ‘Cakebook’ community culinary network will trade tips and ideas, share experiences, document their progress, download sugar-craft video clips, attend interactive online workshops and web chats with Cakebook’s Head Pastry Chef and, ultimately, discover the secret ‘Flash Mob Picnic’ location of the map.

At this free finale event, cakes will be brought and placed on a giant map of the NewcastleGateshead urban landscape as Cakebook member’s picnic and party around the perimeter.

Prize-winning professional and amateur cakes will be chosen by a panel of experts.

Further details as soon as they become available!

EAT! Website
EAT! on Facebook
Cakebook

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