A spotlight will be cast on Thanet chefs and ingredients at what promises to be a bumper World Food Day on Sunday

A highlight of Thanet Fairtrade Initiative’s (TFI) event at Margate’s Winter Gardens will be a cooking demonstration by East Kent College chef Rob Allsworth.

He will be joined by catering and hospitality students showcasing one of their latest initiatives: a range of delicious chutneys and salsas made from Thanet Earth tomatoes and Quex oils.

College cooks are drying the tomatoes and combining them with Quex Park’s own rapeseed oil, to give a completely local product.

This links in perfectly with the theme for World Food Day 2013: Sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition.

The day, from 10.30am-3.30pm, will be packed with interest and entertainment. There will be live music, a catwalk fashion show of ethically produced and vintage clothes, and more than 40 stalls of delicious local and Fairtrade food, including organisations from Thanet Food Link and local beekeepers.

Entertainment for children will include printing with Fairtrade fruit, drumming and a quiz.

TFI chairman Charlotte Tagart said: “It all fits together very well. Fairtrade is all about creating sustainable food systems for farmers in developing countries who grow our tea, coffee, bananas and cocoa to name just the most popular Fairtrade items.

“At a local level what the college is doing shows that you can create imaginative and nutritious food from locally sourced ingredients without necessarily adding hundreds of food miles to a jar of salsa or dried tomatoes in oil.”

Admission to the event is free.