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Pasture to Plate® Dinner: No Finer Life

Graham Harvey, Roberta Bellekom and Alastair Collingwood

Saturday, 30 March 2019

7:45pm

Evening

St Cross College

£95

FT Weekend Oxford Literary festival celebrates its new series of Pasture to Plate® events with a dinner with ingredients sourced from Whittington Lodge Farm in the Cotswolds and the performance of some short excerpts from the play, No Finer Life. The price includes dinner and wines. Dress code informal.

No Finer Life was written by Graham Harvey, a farming journalist and script writer for The Archers who has collaborated with the festival on Pasture to Plate. The play is based on the book, The Farming Ladder, by George Henderson, published in 1943 to show how people could set up a small and profitable farm. The 20-minute performance between courses will feature actress Roberta Bellekom and musician and composer of the original music Alastair Collingwood.

Many of the day’s speakers will be at the event, which will include locally sourced food prepared by St Cross chefs under the guidance of the festival’s consultant chef Paul Bloomfield. Bloomfield has worked with many top chefs including Ken Hom, Madhur Jaffrey, Giancarlo Caldesi and Claudia Roden.

Whittington Lodge Farm is a 700-acre farm near Bourton on the Water owned by farmer and wildlife photographer Ian Boyd and his wife Cathy.  The whole farm has gone organic. Cattle are fed only on pastures and a mixture of grasses, legumes and herbs. The farm is a certified member of the Pasture for Life Association, which requires careful management to ensure animals always have something to eat out in the fields and that the health of soil structure is maintained.

This event is part of a series under the banner Pasture to Plate® that look at the environmental and health benefits of raising food on pasture and getting it to the consumer quickly through a short supply chain.

Acclaimed organic Provence wines presented by Chêne Bleu - La Verrière
Chene Bleu

St Cross College

 

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The Oxford Literary Festival sponsors, donors & partners

Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Goldmoney Properties Felicity Bryan Associates Voltaire Foundation Confucius Institute Critchleys Accountants to the festival Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Oxford Business College Where learning meets opportunity: education partners of the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Sotheby’s Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Embassy of the Dominican Republic Embassy of the Dominican Republic Iberia British Airways elBullifoundation Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Oxford Mathematics Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK University of Oxford The Telegraph Festival media partner Other donors Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture David Isaac Ian and Carol Sellars Martin and Elise Becket Smith Tim and Marion Stevenson Miles Young Jim Mellon Pusey House Founded 1884 Harris Manchester College Harris Manchester College founded 1893 Reuben College Reuben College founded in 2019 Brasenose College Brasenose College founded in 1512 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Lincoln College Lincoln College founded 1427 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 New College New College founded 1379 Yale University Press London The Oxford Times Windrush Group Schoolreaders The Litmus Partnership CAV Oxford Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies The Sheldonian Theatre University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Paul Bloomfield Ltd Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design MACROVegan Human Ecology Project New Dutch Writing Conference Oxford BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner OX magazine Ox in a Box