Real Bread is best at Ludlow Food Festival

Real Bread at Ludlow Food Festival 2009. Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Published: Friday 21 August 2026

From 3pm to 4pm on Saturday the 12^th of Sourdough September, join multi-award-winning baker, and past Real Bread Campaign ambassador, Peter Cook in conversation with Campaign coordinator Chris Young.

Peter, owner and head baker of Peter Cooks Bread, has been honing his craft since the early '90s, while Chris has run the Campaign since 2009.

Slow Food in the UK says: 'Chris has helped to open the eyes of many to the multiple falsehoods that plague the baking industry. With an agenda to make good, honest bread available to all, we team Chris up with multiple award-winning baker Peter Cook. Join these two in conversation, discussing the finer details of what makes Real Bread real, deliciously illustrated by tasting some of Peter’s personal choices from his own portfolio of Real Bread.'

Peter has been a Ludlow Food Festival regular from its foundation in 1995 but this will be Chris's first visit for more than a decade. Chris was named joint Person of the Year 2025 by Slow Food UK and Peter Cooks Bread won Slow Food UK Producer of the Year. The conversation is hosted in the castle grounds by Tish Dockerty, co-chair of the Slow Food Ludlow Marches group.

Ludlow Food Festival 2026 takes place from Friday 11 September to Sunday 13 September. You can find out more and book tickets on the festival website.

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Chris Young
Campaign Coordinator
Real Bread Campaign

Chris Young has coordinated the Real Bread Campaign since March 2009. In addition to lobbying for an Honest Crust Act of better loaf composition, labelling and marketing laws in the UK; he created and runs initiatives including: Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise, promoting therapeutic/social benefits of bread making; No Loaf Lost surplus reduction guidance; and Lessons in Loaf for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook, Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book and Bake Your Lawn grow-a-loaf guidebook; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated Sustain's London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards with the Mayor of London’s office. Chris has pulled on his judge’s wig for BOOM Awards, The Cateys, The Great Taste Awards, The Scottish Bread Championship and The World Bread Awards. In 2017, The School of Artisan Food honoured Chris with its first Fellowship, and in 2025 he was named joint Person of The Year by Slow Food in The UK.

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