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THE last two days of the exhibition
featuring the Polish resettlement camp at Doddington Park, near
Nantwich, just after the Second World War, coincided with the
annual Nantwich Food and Drink festival weekend. So the
exhibitors staged a food tasting event. The Museum was opened
specially on the Sunday.
We already had a
booking for the first day of the Festival, the Friday, so we
couldn't stage the tasting on that day.
In common with
the rest of the events in town, the Museum was swarming with
visitors. Former Museum Curator, Anne Wheeler, said: "It
was an amazing weekend. We smashed all attendance records by
miles. On Saturday alone we had an incredible 1,646 visitors!
And on Sunday we had 895."
The Polish exhibitors worked hard to prepare various dishes
for us. The bigos - a traditional Polish hunters' stew -
proved so popular that we used all of Sunday’s quota on
the Saturday and more had to be cooked. The pierogi also proved
popular and we ran out of this part way through Saturday
with, again, more provided for Sunday.
A
delicious array of cakes and pastries - mostly donated by
Polish Village Bread Ltd of Manchester - was to many
visitors' taste. Bargain Busters’ premier food shop, of
Edleston Road, Crewe, also donated a range of Polish food
and the Great Taste company of Warrington provided some food
for the display table. Our thanks to all who provided food.
THE was a marquee outside the Museum
publicising a town-wide treasure hunt based on the new
Clarrisa's Yabber
Dabber Blue cheese. Of course, our permanent cheese and
salt exhibitions were natural features of the food and
drink festival.
lFor
details of how to make some of the dishes, click on the "Polish r ecipes"
link below to obtain a PDF.
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