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We've wet your appetite with the line up for Saturday's Rude Health Rants, now for the eagerly anticipated Sunday line up.  Taking place at Abergavenny Food Festival on Sunday at 1-2.30pm in The Castle area, come along to be shocked, inspired and entertained by celebrated chefs, passionate producers and fearsome food writers, as they voice their foodie passions...

The Rude Health Rants have returned for the 5th year running, exclusively to Abergavenny Food Festival. On Saturday 21st from 1 - 2pm and 3 - 4pm and Sunday 22nd from 1 - 2.30pm in The Castle area,  ranters will step up to the mic for a bit of free therapy in the form of a rant, about any food related issue on their minds.  Come along to witness, heckle and if you've got a burning rant - participate! Here's our line-up for Saturday, pretty darn good if we do say so ourselves: Watch previous years Rude Health Rants - including ones by Reggae-Reggae Sauce creator Levi Roots, author of Everybody Everday Alex Mackay, master Chocolatier Marc Demarquette and Guy Watson from Riverford Organic at  www.rudehealth.com/rants.

Lusting after crisps? Unwrapping a mars bar ice cream with greed in your eyes? Licking the cream spoon and smiling with pleasure? You’re not alone, or unusual. Man is genetically coded to seek out, gorge and hoard these three fundamental building blocks for life - sugar, salt and fat. This is because they have, historically, been difficult to find, or costly to acquire/grow/nurture, or only very seasonally available. So we’re highly sensitive to their taste, their smell and their after effects…in short we’re sugar, salt and fat junkies.  Happily, for 99.9% of our time on this earth, humans have had to accept their lot, and work around these cravings within local, regional, seasonal and cultural circumstances, so as to build time-honoured healthy traditional diets based on generations of trial and error. However, of the holy trinity of desire let’s not forget that in the natural world, salt and fat are usually much easier to obtain than sugar. Which is why the craving for swee...

We've teased you with the Saturday ranters, now here's the line-up for Sunday. Come check it out for yourself, 1 - 2.30pm at The Castle... Rude Health Nick Barnard To come… The Patchwork Traditional Food Company Rufus Carter A very upbeat very positive celebration of British food, #foodGB following from the Olympics. Chantler Teas Barry Chantler Tea Bags EthicalChef Deri Reed Industrial Food Revolution Aconbury Sprouts Ltd Jim Hardy Sprouts & Supermarkets Hahnemanns Kitchen Trine Hahnemann How we should eat in the future Proper Welsh Milk Company Richard Arnold Bottled Milk versus bottled water Bocaddon Farm Veal Jon Brown Why it is cruel not to eat veal. Harvey Nichols Dominic Jacobs Cocktails Ludlow Food Centre Tom Hunt Proper Bread Yellow House Kitchen Ruth Harding aka Ranting Ruth The misleading labelling of ...

It's that time of the year again...Free therapy in the form of the Rude Health Rants at the Abergavenny Food and Drink Festival . Over the weekend of the 15th and 16th September head to The Castle on Saturday 1-2pm & 3-4pm and Sunday 1-2.30pm to witness, heckle and if you’ve got a burning rant - participate! Here's how the line-up is looking for Saturday, pretty darn good if we do say so ourselves: Proper Welsh Milk Company Richard Arnold Bottled Milk versus bottled water Ludlow Food Centre Tom Hunt Heath & Safety Standards.... The Patchwork Traditional Food Company Rufus Carter A very upbeat very positive celebration of British food, #foodGB following from the Olympics. Franchi Seeds of Italy Paolo Arrigo My lambs from Wales, but where are my seeds from'? Hada Del Cafe Martina Gruppo Coffee certification...how do we know which one really does taste the best and really does do the most? Cafe ...