ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to:

Susan Logan, Nicky Reeve and the team at the Yorkshire & Humber Regional Food Group - for sponsorship, contacts and encouragement: www.foodyorkshire.co.uk

Hamish Robertson, Howard Lawton, Sophie Hainsworth, Lawrence Conyers, Richard Mason and colleagues at York Multimedia – for sponsorship, PR, book design, DVD production, and project management: www.crucial-media.net

Michael Hjort, Jane Sowden, Anne Stirk and Annette Oliver, Elenid Davies and all at the York Festival of Food and Drink – for more contacts, publicity, and book distribution: www.yorkfestivaloffoodanddrink.com

Bernadette Burbridge, Elly Fiorentini, and all at BBC Radio York – for airtime, and recording interviews for the Provenance DVD: www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire

Anne McNeill and team at Impressions Gallery of Photography and Chilli’s Café-Bar – for help, advice, hosting the exhibition launch, and cooking up some treats: www.impressions-gallery.com

Laura Mason and the York Convivium of the Slow Food Movement – for loads of background advice, contacts, and support: www.slowfood.com

David Brooks of the Dean Court Hotel, York – whose 2003 Eat Local dinner helped plant the seeds of Provenance: www.deancourt-york.co.uk

Martin Harrison, Fred, Carol, James Crabtree the vet, and the locals at the Durham Ox in Crayke – for yet more contacts, and for putting us straight on a thing or two. Also to Teresa and Michael Ibbotson: www.thedurhamox.com

Emma Cheshire at Arts Council England, Yorkshire: www.artscouncil.org.uk

Brian Turner

Peter Boardman at the City of York Council: www.york.gov.uk/leisure

Jeni Fearnley and team at The Gateway Internet Café

Julia Smith and Creation Network: www.creation-network.com

Michael Hughes and colleagues at the Yorkshire Pantry: www.yorkshirepantry.com

Tony Howard at Lewis & Cooper.

Also to Bleikers Smokehouse, the Star Inn at Harome, and Jason at CJM Print

And most of all …

To everyone who agreed to be photographed and interviewed for the project. They are remarkable and admirable people, every one of them, and long may their excellence continue.

If you would like to be featured in a future phase of Provenance, or could suggest someone, please contact james@provenance.org.uk or telephone 0870 608 0092.