Crabstock - A weekend Seafood Festival 21st & 22nd April 2012

For many years now there have been many fish festivals and crab festivals all close to the sea and for some strange reason not inland. Here at The Lamb inn Great Rissington we have decided to put on the first inland shellfish festival formerly known as Crabstock. The reasons behind Crabstock are to teach the next generation of the health benefits of eating our great British shellfish, supporting our own UK fishing fleet, for a lot more public awareness of facts of import and export of shellfish throughout the UK and to provide everyone coming to the Crabstock Festival with a great weekend of brilliant food, live music and knowledge of the industry that we should all love and standby.

My name is Matthew Ayers, for the last 13 years I have been working in some of the best restaurants in the UK, my passion for food is extreme and my knowledge vast. I trained for many years in Cornwall from which my love for fish became apparent, I am now head chef at The Lamb Inn in Great Rissington in the Cotswolds where I have found the need to spread the word about UK shellfish and wet fish for more public awareness of matters that some times go unheard.

I feel that Crabstock is a great opportunity for the local community to get involved and provide them with a vast knowledge of the UK fishing industry. i also have been working very closely with the Great Rissington Primary School and have asked them to get the children to design our crabstock logo, in which Harrison Adsett won, congratulations Harrison.

I fully believe that UK shellfish is the best in the world and that the UK should unite and keep this wonderfull sustainable shellfish on the menu's of pubs and restaurants with great knowledge and pride that the shellfish & fish being served is from the UK.

Please check out whats happening at Crabstock and give your full support to our shellfish festival.

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Kind Regards,

The Crabstock Team