It's tough work… volunteers try out the food at the demonstration kitchenThe Sloe Gin was selling fast. Folk were pickled in the beer tent, and bearded at the pickle stall.
Food producers of every type were jamming, frying, pouring and pork pie-ing. Yorkshire sausage rolls were on sale next to Italian ham. And the hot cakes were selling like… well, like billy-o.
It was the opening day of the York Food And Drink Festival, and here’s our gallery of the day.
Crumbs: a man demonstrates the latest food pulveriserWhere once stood Splash Palace, now burgers are servedLife's a cakewalk on Parliament StreetCheck out the chocs on thatIt takes all sortsNever skimp on the shrimpIts swimming days are overBrownie packSloe down, one at a time… York folk rush the gin stallFaffing with fudgePeople, a pie-pileFrom the city of mouse-infested windmillsA man and his mustardThe hungry hordesFrom pig to plateAll hail to the MailleAffordable homesServing the invisible manMorrissey helps out on Jennie Cook's stallTime to take a break from all that food and drink in the caféPlease, no one turn the fountain onThe Towering BunfernoNot to be truffled withTree-mendous beer tentOlive some of thatMore food please, as spoon as possibleHamming it up, Italian styleEdible educationWe grew thatBEFORE: the photographer's lunchAFTER; the photographer's lunch
