ALNWICK Market Place was filled with delicious aromas of cooking food over the weekend.
The town was celebrating its third annual food festival organised by Alnwick Lions Club - in some style!
More than 40 local food producers enjoyed brisk business as the weather held fair and thousands of visitors came from wide and far to enjoy the gastrnomic delights on offer.
A series of cookery demonstrations in the Northumberland Hall were packed out, with top local chefs, including Richard Sim, formerly executive chef at The Alnwick Garden, John Blackmore, former Newcastle United head chef, and Martin Hutton, showing off their skills.
The Food Festival Bistro run in the Town Hall next to the Market Place sold out of Renaissance Pies on Saturday as fans of the original Rennisons Pie, a delicacy in Alnwick until the bakery that gave them their name shut 15 years ago gobbled them up. Alnwick butcher
Turnbull's recreated the closely-guarded secret receipe and will be selling the pies every Friday from their Market Street shop.
The spectacular Samande Jugglers, Gary Gifford of the Bread and Butter Theatre Company, the Segretta Stompers jazz trio and Beefy and Lamby joined Alf the Lion, the food festival mascot, and Chicken George to entertain the crowds as they sampled the local food and filled their shopping bags.
Collections and events running alongside the food festival raised money for the
Bubble Foundation, a charity based at Newcastle General Hospital which treats children born without an immune system.
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