Feast on the Bridge Update

Saturday saw beautiful sunny weather and a team from Fruit for the Office once again selling fresh strawberries & cream along with freshly chopped fruit on a stall at the Thames Food Festival on Southwark Bridge.

The event itself is known as the Feast On The Bridge and is a celebration of local produce and fine foods from across the South East amongst learning experiences such as butter churning and the Sacred Mayonnaise Ritual.

In between selling fruit we were mostly seen scoffing produce from other suppliers who were in close proximity, such as Cocoa Loco Chocolate stall - delicious marshmallows dipped in strawberry chocolate! Oh dear.....the diet had definitely gone out of the window on Saturday. And also the cider stall was next door, which led to a few of our team becoming fairly intoxicated as they day ran on...ahem..Jon..coff..

Next year should prove to be another extremely enjoyable event and we encourage anyone who has never been to visit with friends and family for a guaranteed great time.

THAMES FOOD FESTIVAL LONDON 2009

One of the Thames Festival's major commissions sees Southwark Bridge transformed by a team of artists led by Clare Patey into a magical feasting environment with banqueting tables, activities for all and the chance to sample food from some of the UKs best sustainable producers. Visitors to the bridge can try churning butter and foraging for food along the Thames; you can tread grapes at the Festival Wine Bar, bob for apples, carve pumpkins, share seeds and help create a 6-metre long cake - the Beast on the Bridge.

Feast on the Bridge has been concieved as a spectacular communal 'harvest supper' that aims to reconnect an urban public with the growing cycle and to encourage people to reclaim a public space, share a meal and conversation. Work has been taking place behind the scenes since early April with people from across London growing mobile edible gardens to bring to the Feast, to cook, share and exhibit. Cakes are being baked, tea-pots collected, guitars tuned and bunting sewn - come along and join Fruit for the Office for freshly chopped fruit and strawberries and cream on the bridge!

• 1.22pm Sacred Mayonnaise Ritual - Low Tide
• 3.30pm Communal Mayonnaise-making
• 7.35pm Sacred Mayonnaise Ritual - High Tide
• 2, 4 & 6pm Butter-churning
• 2, 3, 4 & 5pm Story-telling
• 5pm Slicing of the cake - Beast on the Bridge
• 3, 5 & 7pm Treading of the grapes

SEE YOU THERE!