Foodie fair for Easter bunnies

Take a gastronomic tour into the past and get a taste of South-East England today as cheese makers, beef farmers, confectioners and bakers, chutney producers, spice merchants and ice-cream sellers converge on the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum.

The fair itself takes place in a marquee but the food theme extends across the Museum site with demonstrations of traditional cooking taking place inside the collection of historic homes, shops and civic buildings which date from medieval times.

The working watermill will be in action, producing stoneground wholewheat flour, and visitors can enter the medieval farmstead with its seven period gardens of herbs and vegetables.

Families can visit the hands-on gallery of traditional building techniques, see the cattle, sheep and heavy horses, watch a blacksmith at work and see pole lathe turning as well as joining in a host of children's activities all with a suitable foodie theme.

Weald & Downland Open Air Museum (01243 811363).
Easter Sunday 31 March & Mon 1 Apr
10.30am-5pm.
Adults £7, children £4, family £19