There are so many food festivals, you could spend every weekend of the year at a different one. Newspapers and magazines (including this one) often recommend the best and there’s at least one website that lists them all – currently 338. That’s almost one for every day of the year. There are festivals for sausages, oysters and, in Suffolk where I live, even for peas.
We flock to these foodie jamborees in our thousands. They’re a chance to enjoy a civilised festival experience for those who don’t like camping and smelly loos. On the face of it, that’s a good thing: we should know more about what food is produced in our countryside and who produces it.