page_title: Abergavenny Food Festival
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Abergavenny Food Festival / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Abergavenny Butter Market
context_page_description: The Abergavenny Food Festival is an annual food festival which takes place in the town of Abergavenny in Wales each September.
context_section_description: The festival was founded in 1999, by two local farmers, Chris Wardle and Martin Orbach, in the aftermath of the BSE crisis.
  "Abergavenny is to food as Cannes is to film – an annual festival for spotting rising stars in Britain's artisan food firmament"
  — The Guardian
  The 2019 festival was attended by over 35,000 people.
  No festival is planned in 2020.
  Over the years the festivals celebrity guests have included: Valentine Warner, Tom Parker Bowles, Mitch Tonks, Michael Winner, Matt Tebbutt, Mark Hix, Marguerite Patten OBE, Levi Roots, Keith Floyd, John Burton Race, Valentine Warner, Jay Rayner, Pete Brown, Jason Atherton, Henry Dimbleby, George Alagiah, Franco Taruschio, Fergus Henderson, Christophe Langree, Antonio Carluccio, Anthony Bourdain, Allegra McEvedy, Jose Pizarro, Alex James, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Fergus Henderson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Asma Khan,
caption: Market Hall, Abergavenny
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