Sense of place worth toasting

Love of food and wine and the region it comes from is a key motivator for Toast Martinborough’s new director, Anna Nielson. Ten thousand tickets went on sale yesterday for the annual event which will run this year on Sunday, November 15. Nielson co-founded Wellington on a Plate festival with Sarah Meikle, “in the middle of a recession”, and has been to roughly 10 of the 24 Toast Martinborough events including – she can’t remember which – either the first or second ever event back in 1991.