Best of Manx produce on show this weekend

Friday, 20 September 2013 00:00

Local producers will be out in force this weekend to showcase the best in Manx food and drink.

Final preparations are being made for this year's Food and Drink Festival.

The two-day event will start tomorrow and is being held in the Villa Marina gardens in Douglas.

Celebrity chefs The Fabulous Baker Brothers - Tom and Henry Herbert - will also be in attendance giving live cookery demonstrations.

Kim Etherton from the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture says people are keen to know where their food comes from:

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