Professional chefs are preparing their utensils for a day of cookery demonstrations at the Alresford Watercress Festival on May 18.

These will include Lesley Waters, who appears regularly on Ready Steady Cook, Great Food Live and This Morning, and Suki Pantal, a cookbook author, food columnist and speaker.

Londoner Lesley, a former head tutor of Leiths School of Food and Wine in the capital, moved to the West Country and opened her own cookery school.

Suki, born in New Delhi, specialises in regional Indian recipes, bringing authentic and diverse flavours of the country to her cooking.

They will be joined by Martin Dawkins, also known as the Rustic Chef, and Andy Mackenzie and Phil Yeomans from the Lainston House hotel in Sparsholt.