Transition Town Tooting

Tag: Cooks

  • Foodival 2015 Rocks!

    Thank you to every veg and fruit donor, every restaurant cook, every great musician, every ugly vegetable, every volunteer, stall holder, artist, sponsor and Top Tooting Cook who made Foodival 2015 a fantastic celebration of home grown food cooked by local cooks. So many great connections made in a melting pot of south London’s food community. A mountain of photos and video will be sifted and we will report back on who won what. 

    But it’s back to the real world of (non-Foodival, non-Transition) work for most of us this morning, unfortunately, so bear with us! Keep an eye out of the Foodival blog for more in the next few days …

    If you missed the action over the weekend, you can see what you missed in the PROGRAMME HERE

    Roll on Foodival 2016 (10th/11th September 2016)

  • What’s that? Tooting Foodival… just a month away!

    That’s right. It’s less than a month until South London’s favourite sustainable food festival – Tooting Foodival!

    Over on the Foodival blog, we’re ramping up the announcements – letting you know about all the great things that will be happening over the weekend, and all the great people who make Foodival the glorious local festival that it is.

    Just this week, we’ve announced five local restaurants who are cooking for Foodival… and there will be more to come next week!

    Can you donate produce to Foodival?

    As well as the wonderful cooks, we couldn’t dish up over 600 servings to you hungry folk, without the generosity and talents of all the people growing delicious vegetables, fruit and herbs, who donate their produce to be cooked up overnight.

    If you grow anything, or you know a grower, you can donate to Foodival… every salad leaf counts!

    Add what you’re growing to the map! Share it with your friends. Download some flyers and dish them out to growers all around the area.

    We can’t wait to see you all in just 4 short weeks!

  • Pumpkin power in the Community Garden

    We harvested our pumpkin today:

    And within an hour or so, lunch was served (looks great, Diana!):

    Wonderful!
    More pictures: click on GARDEN in the links at top of this page.  
    All welcome any Sunday….
    (to the Garden, I mean…and yes we should cook lunch there one day)

  • Top Tooting Cook 2014

    Could you be the next Top Tooting Cook?
     
    Last year the culinary talents of many local cooks were on display in Tooting Market at the hotly contested inaugural Top Tooting Cook competition. This year we are expecting the competition to be even hotter with even more local cooks taking up the challenge.

    It’s all in the name of fun, but also to show how locally grown, locally cooked food can be tastier and a whole lot healthier for you and for our environment. As part of the annual Foodival event, taking place this year on 13th/14th September, local growers donate produce from the gardens and window boxes of Tooting that we then distribute to cooks and restaurants to produce some truly local sustainable dishes.  

    You can collect some of this home grown produce on Sat 13th or use anything tasty you have growing to create your Top Tooting Cook entry.  Bring your creations back on Sun 14th when the tastiest dishes with the lowest food miles will win some fabulous prizes, with the winner crowned “Top Tooting Cook”.

    Please get in touch with Mal if you are interested in taking part or in finding out more.  

  • Foodival 2013

    Transition Town Tooting present our 6th Foodival on the 28th and 29th September 2013, and this year’s two day event promises to be even bigger and better than the previous 5! 

    Foodival is a celebration of local growing and cooking with a sustainable slant.  Even in the busy city environs of Tooting, many people are growing vegetables and fruits in their back gardens, allotments, in pots or on windowsills.  Foodival aims to show that locally grown food can be just as tasty and good for you as food imported from elsewhere, while of course having a much smaller carbon footprint.  We will showcase dishes with close to zero food miles. 

    Competing Cooks


    Foodival has always relied on donations of fruit and vegetables from local growers and this year is no different.  On Saturday 28th Sept., at Mushkil Aasaan in Upper Tooting Road, volunteers will be accepting donations of any tasty Tooting fruit and veg from local people.  Local chefs and home cooks will then use all this lovely produce to create fabulous Tooting dishes while there will also be several professional cooking demonstrations using the donated food. 

    Entrants to the cook’s competition (want to join the cook’s here?) will take away fruit and veg to cook overnight for Sunday’s event at Tooting Market, vying to be crowned Top Tooting Cook. Local restaurants have also accepted the challenge to do likewise meaning that Sunday’s event will have a wide variety of Tooting food cooked up by Tooting people. All that’s needed is some Tooting Eaters to sample and enjoy the bounty! Sunday in the market will have live music, comedy, local stalls, games with prizes, the cook’s competition and a wide variety of food to sample.  

    Foodival is a free event for all the family.  Come along and enjoy the fun, 

    Meanwhile final plans will be discussed at a meeting at the Wheatsheaf tomorrow night (Tues 17th at 7pm).  To get involved in any way, please come along or contact Dave Mauger on foodivalttt@gmail.com.