Budding young chefs are to be catered for during the first weekend of Christchurch Food & Wine Festival on Saturday 8 May and Sunday 9 May 2010.

Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust will be mounting the popular Kids Kitchen on both days, sponsored by Christchurch Community Partnership and Waitrose. This year, Kids Kitchen events will take place at The Priory School in Wick Lane.

Children aged 11 to 14 years can join Liz Farrow, a renowned chef/lecturer from Bournemouth and Poole College, to learn how to make their own pasta. Sessions will take place at 10am, 1pm, and 3.30pm on each day and will last for approximately 1 ½ hours.

All food and equipment will be provided; children just have to bring their own apron. Places are limited to ten per session and must be booked in advance.

Younger children, aged from 7 to 10 years, can also have fun cooking and tasting their own healthy delicious food by joining Ester Davies, a local food nutritionist, for 'hands on' cooking sessions and food tastings as “Ester’s Little Chefs”.

Ester’s sessions will take place at 10am, 12noon, 2pm, and 4pm and will last for approximately 1 hour. Again, all food and equipment will be provided. Just bring an apron. Places are limited to 12 per session and must be booked in advance.

Tickets for both Liz’s Pasta Workshop and Ester’s Little Chefs cost just £3 per child and are available from Christchurch Information Centre in the High Street or by calling the Information Centre on 01202 471780.