The Great Berwick Family Recipe Challenge

The Berwick Literary Festival and Berwick Slow Food would like to invite you to take part in our exciting recipe challenge, to re-create the tastiest and most interesting recipes from our past.

The Challenge

• Talk to an older family member or friend from your community about the dishes they remember and enjoyed from their younger days.
• Ask them to share a simple recipe for a dish cooked from scratch with up to 8 main ingredients, which could be fresh, frozen or tinned, plus spices, herbs or other flavourings.
• Ask them to help you prepare the meal together and take some photos. Then eat it!
• Talk to them about their memories of food and the history of the dish or its cultural significance to your community.
• Write a brief review of the meal — did you enjoy it?
• Write a few sentences about the importance of the dish to your family or friends.

How to enter

• Send your recipe, a photograph of the finished dish (and one or two of you preparing it, if you’d like!) and your review of the dish to [email protected]
• Your review should be no more than 100 words.
• Please include your name and the name of the family member or friend that you’ve worked with on the Challenge, your age, the name of your school and the contact email and/or phone number of your parent or guardian.
• If the recipe is from a cookery book, magazine or website, or if it is based on a recipe you’ve found in a cookery book, magazine or website, please include the details of the cookery book, magazine or website.

What happens next?

All of the suitable recipes will be published in a booklet to celebrate the variety of great food that families living in Berwick and North Northumberland share.

There will be a family celebration event, with prizes, at Berwick Slow Food’s demonstration kitchen at the Festival on Sunday 16th August. Prizes will be judged in two categories: ages 10-11 and ages 12-14.

There will also be related talks and events during this year’s Berwick Literary Festival (5th — 11th October)

If you have any questions, please get in touch at [email protected]