A FOCUS on everything local was the theme at the deliciouslyorkshire cookery demonstration tent.

Throughout the day, on the hour, different local chefs showed audiences how to create dishes using ingredients farmed, gathered or grown in Yorkshire.

There were demonstrations by Charlotte Shipley, from Field and Forage, Dan Graham, from At the Dinner Party, “Country Cook” Esther Veerman, Michael Wilkinson, from the Star Inn the City, and Bob the butcher, from Cedar Barn Farm Shop.

Helen Miles of deliciouslyorkshire said: “Our focus is on local stuff and that’s what we try and use in the cookery theatre.

!Local chefs using local produce from local producers.

“We’ve done this for a number of years and it’s always really popular.

“We do this at other shows but it

is popular here because it is next to the producers’ tents, so people can go and buy the products and then come in here and see it being cooked.

“Being an agricultural show as well you get both ends of it - from the cattle and the sheep to the producers, you see the full circle.

“People are more and more interested in that provenance, now more than ever.”

Hosting the demonstrations, as well as delivering his own, was Dan Graham, former head chef at the Talbot in Malton.

He now runs At the Dinner Party, a business which caters for dinner parties and other small-scale events as well as doing cookery lessons and chef consultancy.

“There’s some really interesting conversations to be had,” he said.

“A few of the chefs today are also suppliers, so they have farmsteads - they’ve gone from being farmers to caterers. It’s exciting to be here, it’s my first time hosting the demonstrations.

“I’m looking forward to that - I could talk about food all day.”