Fare’s fair

There’s a fair glut of food festivals going on all across the country in the coming weeks, reflecting — and rightly so — the harvest.

There’s a fair glut of food festivals going on all across the country in the coming weeks, reflecting — and rightly so — the harvest. But how retro is that? Fantastic! Even better, to my mind, is that it proves that our collective mindset has changed dramatically — we are growing ever prouder of our food and its local provenance, willing even to think that British might really be best. That in itself is cause for celebration.

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My local is the second annual Hastings Seafood and Wine Festival (22-23 September). This one neatly conflates the old and the new. Hastings’s fishing industry is older than memory itself — we still boast Europe’s largest land-based fishing fleet, modest both in number and size of boats and nets.