* Daylesford aside, there are two other food festivals being held this weekend: Let’s start with Witney on Saturday. There’s a cooking skills tent on Church Green where you can learn how to fillet fish, make pizza dough and prepare the crayfish under the watchful eye of Mark Lees of Crayfish Capers.

Having recognised the importance in providing loads of activities for children, youngsters will also be catered for in their own dedicated Children’s Tent with farm and food linked activities.

They will get a chance to milk a cow, make their own butter and decorate biscuits too.

There are also 70 food stalls to choose from.

Tickets to the festival at £2 each are available at the door from 9.30am, children go free.

See witneyfoodfestival.co.uk

* For those in the south of Oxfordshire, the Wallingford Food Festival is also taking place this weekend at Bridge Villa Camping and Caravan Park.

This festival, which is also in its infancy, boasts an excellent line-up of local food producers.

The organisers are working to provide more raw goods for people to take home and cook.

Their plan is to create a covered market area selling fruit, vegetables and meat. To allow for the diversity of tastes Wallingford Festival will also host a variety of international dishes all created by local chefs and available within a 30 miles radius.

Last year the Wallingford Food Festival won a silver medal in the 2014 South East’s Beautiful South Awards for the Tourist Event of the year.

This year the Wallingford Food Festival organisers are hard at work cooking up a mouth-watering programme for this weekend’s two-day event with their sights firmly set on winning gold this year.

Visitors are being encouraged to book a weekend ticket and turn it into a real holiday break.

For further details go to wallingfordfoodfestival.co.uk