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Tuck into a Sussex Breakfast in Eastbourne

4 February 2009

Businesses in Eastbourne are being invited to cook local and use seasonal Sussex produce in their breakfast menus as part of a new ‘Sussex Breakfast' initiative.

 

Launched in association with the Sussex Tourism Partnership, Eastbourne Borough Council are inviting local businesses including hotels and guesthouses to celebrate the launch of the Sussex Breakfast on Tuesday 24 February. Interested Eastbourne businesses can come along to The Cavendish Hotel, taste a Sussex Breakfast and sign up to the scheme promising tastier and healthier food, happier animals and help to sustain local rural communities all at the same time.

 

Eastbourne Borough Council Spokesperson for Tourism, Cllr Steve Wallis said "We are very pleased to be working with Sussex Tourism Partnership to launch the Sussex Breakfast and really hope to see many of our local businesses, particularly our accommodation providers, taking part. It presents a great opportunity to work more closely with local food producers and support the local economy, and it will offer visitors to the region a real taste of Sussex."

 

The Sussex Breakfast is all about using food from within the region; using sausages and bacon from pigs reared outdoors in open straw barns, eggs from free range chickens, milk from small dairies, and juice and fruit from local orchards.

 

According to the Visit Sussex website, the Sussex Breakfast is ‘delicious, local and seasonal' and now Eastbourne wants its businesses to join in. To claim status as a Sussex Breakfast establishment, businesses must pass an audit to guarantee they serve at least 60% locally sourced ingredients.

 

It's not just full meat breakfast options that businesses are being urged to use either; the Sussex Breakfast can also include serving locally sourced alternatives including halloumi cheese, potato cakes and mushrooms.

 


The initiative is already being rolled out elsewhere in the county with 33 businesses already serving a Sussex Breakfast. With the Eastbourne event just a few weeks away, it is hoped to add to the list of Sussex Breakfast partners.

 

Visitors coming to Eastbourne later this year can look out for the Sussex Breakfast symbol when they eat and know they will be tucking into a breakfast that is made with locally and ethically sourced produce.

 

The Sussex Breakfast event takes place at The Cavendish Hotel from 10.30am on Tuesday 24 February. Businesses interested in attending should telephone 01323 415556 for more information.