A Taste of Sussex is the Sussex is a membership organisation offering a comprehensive support service for all Sussex based Food Producers and Processors, to expand their markets and make their produce more accessible to the consumer.

Knitted Fish & Chips 

Brighton-based Cardigan, was set up by Kate Jenkins in 2003 after working with some of the world's most prestigious fashion designers including Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Missoni and Sonia Rykiel. It fulfils her philosophy that anything can be created from yarn as long as it is made with love.

With a strong emphasis on colour and innovative, witty details, Cardigan has become synonymous with the creation of amazing knitted and crocheted works of art as well as beautiful knitwear and accessories.

One of Kate's most famous art collections is ‘Comfort Food', which contains some of the nation's best-loved food including fried breakfasts, sausage and mash and sardines on toast, each ‘dish' knitted and framed to create an original piece. Especially for the Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival, Kate is putting together an exclusive menu of her unique interpretations of everyone's favourite, fish and chips.

As a result of ‘Comfort Food', Kate is working with The Art Group and has designed a range of greetings cards that will be on sale in outlets such as Paperchase and WH Smith's later in the year.

For her recent Open House show, Kate created Cardigan in Bloom, an inspired celebration of nature, it turned her showroom into a magical knitted garden. The show included a limited art collection inspired by an old Victorian specimen, featuring crocheted butterflies, beetles, bees and all kinds of bugs, glistening with sequins, captured in box frames and pinned to canvas.

She also collaborated with Jon Link and Mick Bunnage the authors of Modern Toss to produce a knitted book cover which was displayed at Ink'd Gallery, 96 North Road, Brighton during the festival.

To see Kate's full range, either call into her shop/showroom at Unit 5 Arundel Mews, 13-18 Arundel Place, Kemp Town, Brighton or visit the website at www.cardigan.ltd.uk

For more information, please contact
Kate Jenkins kate@cardigan.ltd.uk - 01273 671 390

Lime Marketing is a Brighton-based marketing agency with unrivalled expertise in producing effective communications campaigns for the leading UK exhibition organisers, many of which are long-standing clients. We make it our business to immerse ourselves in our clients¹ business, absorbing and understanding the individual nature of their industry and bring a unique understanding of what¹s required. We listen. We build rapport. We research. We think. Only then do we apply our creative expertise to produce work that will really help our clients achieve their goals.

We decided to get involved with the Brighton Food Festival as it¹s rapidly becoming THE event of the food calendar year in the South East and we couldn¹t keep our taste buds at bay any longer...

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About Paskins:

Paskins Town House is one of those enticing harbours you dream of when planning a trip to a Brighton hotel; recognisable, slightly different, and feel good. It's the sort of place you leave thinking you will always want to return.

A gold award winning green Brighton Hotel that has rather found its own way. Not so much a boutique hotel, perhaps more discerning, a little quirky and forging its own fresh direction.

About the Food Festival:

There are many reasons people come to Brighton. The Sea, the boutique hotels, the clubs and the shopping are all mentioned. When people come here they discover a wealth of great restaurants. The Food Festival is an opportunity to help put Brighton's restaurants on the national map.

When we started the Festival six years ago our aim was to persuade the restaurants that they should start promoting local food. Now six years later most of the restaurants you could commend to friends and guests are offering local as part of their normal menu.

In the coming six years we hope to inspire Brighton to have a local and seasonal food offer in all its shops, delicatessens and supermarkets that is the normal Brightonians weekly food shop.

SEEDA supports locally produced food, through such networks as A Taste of Sussex.  Not only is the food of excellent quality, local consumption reduces 'food miles' and contributes to an improved ecological footprint for the region.

Alan and Adam Style are the father and son team based in Southwick who joined forces three years ago combining their talents in the field of accountancy.

Alan Style, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), has gained vast experience having been in practice for over 40 years.

Adam Style, a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accounts (ACCA), qualified whilst working in the commercial sector gaining hands-on business and management skills. Adam was publisher of the very successful local magazines Sussex Life, Surrey Life and Kent Life.

Style Accountants Ltd are affiliated to both leading UK accountancy bodies, so you can be confident that our advice is given according to the professional ethics of the accounting profession. If you are appointing an accountant for the first time or seeking more than your present accountant provides, look to Style Accountants. You will never need to change accountants again!

Adam joined the management team of the food and drinks festival in 2005 and provides the financial and monetary controls needed, saving the festival £'000s with good advice. Adam says "The Food and Drinks Festival is an important part of the City's calendar. We are very lucky to have so many top quality restaurants and bars in the area and so much local produce to choose from. The Festival is such a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the very best of what our city has to offer. I'm delighted to be playing a very small part in an amazing month of events."

Adam can be contacted at Style Accountants Ltd on 01273 597343 or at adam@styleaccountants.co.uk

The Brighton and Hove Business Forum not only engages with local business through formal presentations and workshops, but also through festivals and other outdoor markets and events. By adding to the city's already colourful calendar of  leisure activities, we continually aim to make Brighton and Hove an interesting and exciting place for residents to enjoy, and to attract more visitors from outside the city to come and spend their leisure time and money here.