Portobello Road, famous for its fashion, antiques and atmosphere, is set to celebrate English apples at a special cooking demonstration on Friday 18 October.
Guest chef Oliver Rowe, from BBC’s Urban Chef series, will join forces with food entrepreneur Clippy McKenna to create a selection of mouth-watering dishes using seasonal traditional English apples - including some from the Brogdale Collections in Kent - which will be on sale at nearby stalls.
This is the fifth year that the Portobello and Golborne Road Markets have promoted English apples. It is part of an ongoing campaign to promote the markets’ fruit and vegetable stalls. This includes a Road Food demonstration on the third Friday of each month and Saturday sample tastings at select stalls.
While English apples are flavour of the month during October, November will have a very definite Middle Eastern and North African theme to coincide with the Royal Borough’s Nour festival of the arts and culture.
Cllr Tim Ahern, Cabinet Member for the Environment, said: “There is a great variety of fruit and vegetables available at Portobello and Golborne Markets and the Road Food demonstrations are an innovative way to promote seasonal food such as English apples. I want to encourage local residents to visit the markets often for food shopping and for inspiration. The value for money, freshness and quality of ingredients on offer is excellent.”
Road Food demonstrations take place on the third Friday of each month at a stall beside the Office shoe shop, 217 Portobello Road. If you have a suggestion for a theme email the Royal Borough’s Markets Office, street.trading@rbkc.gov.uk.
Saturday sample tastings are prepared by volunteer teams from local community organisations and catering colleges. The Markets Office is looking for groups interested in handing out recipe sheets and creating tasty sample dishes from ingredients grown in nearby community kitchen gardens and supplemented by fruit and vegetables bought from the markets and local shops.
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