Made in Cumbria has lined up five of the county's top chefs to do live demonstrations, as well as a series of workshops for little chefs, at the Lowther Horse Driving Trails & Country Fair from Friday to Sunday, August 8 to 10 at Lowther Park, near Penrith.

For those inspired to go home and try something new there will also be an opportunity to buy some of the region's finest food and drink.

There will be nearly 40 producers from Cumbria and other parts of the North West in the Made in Cumbria Food Hall, selling everything from chutneys and pickles to smoked meats and delicious puddings.

Made in Cumbria's food specialist John Anderson says: "The North West has some of the country's best locally made food and drink, so the Lowther Show will be a great opportunity to try and buy some excellent products. Our team of top chefs will also have lots of ideas about how to make the most of what's on offer both at Lowther and around the region."

Michael Weston-Cole, head chef at The Waterhead Hotel in Ambleside, will be revealing how to make some of the dishes on his new menu. He will be using products like Holker venison, Slacks Farm smoked bacon, Eden Valley chicken and Thornby Moor Stumpy goat's cheese
The other chefs sharing their culinary experience at the show will be Craig Sherrington, the manager of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel in Barrow; John Crouch, a regular contributor on BBC Radio Cumbria; Ricky Andalcio, the owner of 'Zest Harbourside' and 'Zest Restaurant' in Whitehaven; and Nick Martin, a local freelance chef who regularly cooks at 'Lucy Cooks Cookery School' in Staveley.

John Crouch says: "Lowther is always a special event. It's one of the biggest and best gatherings of local producers and the quality is really excellent.

"In my demonstrations I concentrate on quick and simple dishes that people can easily go back and make at home.

"I will be using products that you can buy in the Made in Cumbria Food Hall, while putting together flavours that people might not have thought about before."

The Kid's Kitchen Academy workshops were at big hit at last year's Lowther Show. This year there will be workshops on both the Saturday and Sunday at Lowther. Children can learn about healthy food and gain important skills in the art of cooking, creating fantastic dishes such as falafels, sushi and wraps.

One of the activities children can get involved in is making healthy drinks on a smoothie bike. The children, or a willing adult, ride the bike and as if by magic a fruit smoothie is made!

A novel way of exercising and getting a healthy reward.

* The producers who will be setting out their stalls in the Made in Cumbria Food Hall include Cock Robin Cider from Wigton; Furness Fish, Poultry and Game from Flookburgh; Holker Foods; Lowther Park Farm; and Country Fare.

* Land Registry is taking a stand at the Lowther Driving Trials and Country Fair Land Registry staff will be joining exhibitors at the 2008 Lowther Driving Trials and Country Fair next month (August).

The Cumbria initiative is part of a drive by Land Registry – the government department responsible for registering land ownership in England and Wales – to help landowners identify and register what they own.