Eat, drink and be merry: a year-round calendar of Australia’s food festivals
Tiny samples and local produce are back on the menu for 2023. Here’s our guide to the best places to gorge yourself in Australia’s cities and regions
September 2022
Readers' travel tips
It’s a party for the palate: readers’ favourite UK food festivals
Readers' travel tips
Share a tip on a UK food festival – you could win a holiday voucher
May 2022
Top 20s
From pageants to picnics: 20 great jubilee days out
Knights, concerts and afternoon teas … where to royally enjoy yourself over the platinum jubilee bank holiday weekend
September 2019
Smoke on the water: Sweden’s first Foodstock festival
Harvest festivals, feasts and fare this autumn in the UK
June 2018
Recipe for disaster: when food festivals go wrong
From pizza festivals without ovens to cheese fests missing camembert, these millennial-friendly events struggle to deliver the value for money their audience craves
May 2018
Edible sculptures: International Cake Show – in pictures
Brisbane hosted the inaugural Australian International Cake Festival this week. More than 100 ‘statement’ cakes were flown in from around Australia and the world for judging, including a life size Alice in Wonderland cake
February 2018
The faddy eater
How to eat flowers without poisoning yourself
I spent a week adding a floral touch to my meals – but if you don’t know what you’re doing, swiping flowers from the meadow can be a risky business
September 2017
Guernsey goes gastro: a food adventure in the Channel Islands
Kari Herbert samples the island’s emerging culinary scene, from local seafood and tapas to cheese and gin – all showcased at the food festival kicking off this weekend
January 2017
From the agencies
Spanish bakers prepare traditional Epiphany cakes – in pictures
Madrid’s oldest pastry shop creates traditional roscón de reyes cakes to commemorate the arrival of the wise men to Bethlehem after the birth of Jesus
December 2016
Celebrating food and refugee chefs: 'I'm happy you have come to eat my food!'
Restaurateurs in Strasbourg are throwing open their doors to refugee chefs – and the customers are flooding in too
September 2016
Italy’s best-kept food secret: the sagra festival
Italy’s food festivals are not just a chance to taste fantastic regional specialities, but also to delve into local culture – and autumn is the time to go
July 2016
Forget the music, food traders are the headline act at festivals
Gone are the days of a badly-cooked burger – Standon Calling, Wilderness, Festival No.6 and Green Man are among those with a serious focus on food
December 2015
Food in season
The Guardian Cook Christmas Bazaar – in pictures
On 5th December, Guardian Cook readers, and contributors congregated at London’s Mary Ward House for the supplement’s inaugural Christmas Bazaar ...
November 2015
Google Translate error sees Spanish town advertise clitoris festival
Food festival organisers say they are ‘quite surprised’ to learn event in honour of Galician speciality grelo had been badly mistranslated
August 2015
New East network
Fish, meat and a taste of history: food markets of the new east – in pictures
In his travels across the former Soviet Union, photographer Gianluca Pardelli has documented the collision of past and present amid the bustling trade in cultural fare. The Calvert Journal reports
July 2015
Naidoc week: how to cook in an earth oven – video
Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut no longer top dog in hot dog eating contest
March 2015
New East network
A foodie's guide to salo: the Ukrainian delicacy made of cured pork fat
Lard maybe be staging a comeback in foodie circles but it’s long been a Ukrainian obsession – here’s a definitive guide to the cured pig fat (best served cold)
