14th Manchester Food & Drink Festival

Fake food & Oriental Slops!

IT'S not a patch on Ludlow, I can tell you! I got home, last night, from the 14th Annual Manchester Food & Drink Festival hungry for local indigenous food and parched with thirst. The long term criticism that all Manchester offers is a cosmopolitan cuisine of Chinese, Indian cooking, and other oriental delights, seems to me to be born out judging from what I saw yesterday in Albert Square and St. Anns Square. The coming November issue of Northern Voices 13, out shortly, will tackle the lack of local inspiration in what Manchester seems to be offering the public in terms of ingredients and regional cooking. We're being short-changed by a Manchester Council that is renting out stalls to all sorts of incomers of dubious calibre. They should never have let the police kicked the anti-capitalist protestors out of Albert Square to let these vendors of mediocre produce and merchandice in.

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THE NEXT ISSUE OF NORTHERN VOICES - N.V.13 - IS OUT
IN NOVEMBER:
It will have a review of the 'Six o' the Best Northern Theatres' by Chris Draper, as well as an analysis of the Manchester Food & Drink Festival.
Northern Voices 13 is priced £2.20 [post & package included] or £4.20 for the next two issues cheques payable to 'Northern Voices' from:
c/o 52, Todmorden Road,Burnley,Lancashire. BB10 4AH.
Tel.: 0161 793 5122.
Email: northernvoices@hotmail.com