On Thursday 13th November, Leytonstone’s Good Shepherd Studios will see two contestants use only oats, salt and water in an attempt to produce a word class porridge
Do you rate your daily porridge as some of the best in the borough?
If you think what you have what it takes to be crowned Waltham Forest’s best porridge maker, Waltham Forest Cinema Project and Good Shepherd Studios in Leytonstone are offering you the chance to
prove your mettle.
On Thursday 13th November, following a 7pm screening of new documentary The Golden Spurtle, two contestants will duke it out using only oats, salt and water to produce something world class.
The documentary The Golden Spurtle follows the town of Carrbridge in Scotland as it prepares for their annual international tournament to find the world’s best porridge maker. 2023’s Golden Spurtle winner Adam Kiani and James Leach – proprietors of porridge business Forridge – will be in person to taste the Waltham Forest batches.
Attendees to the event can also sample the contestants’ handiwork and make their pick. This screening is the latest from the Waltham Forest Cinema Project, a long-term project to bring a community cinema to Waltham Forest, hosting regular events at Good Shepherd
Studios in Leytonstone that demonstrate the type of programming an eventual cinema would host.
Duncan Carson of Waltham Forest Cinema Project said: “Anything you do every day should be something you try to do better and better. Making porridge isn’t just a way to fill you up until lunch, it’s an art. I always want to show films that celebrate community and bring us together to look at human-scale events and The Golden Spurtle is an absolute charmer that’ll leave you with Ready-Brek glow! I’m so glad Adam and James will be on hand to give us their insight into what makes world-class porridge.”
Adam Kiani and James Leach of Forridge said: “Porridge has built community throughout history, and that is central to our work at Forridge. Great porridge making can come from anyone, so we’re really excited to be judging the competition and to be crowning the best porridge-maker in the Waltham Forest community!”
To book tickets (from £7) visit this website
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