Tucking into a Sussex breakfast

Launched in association with the Sussex Tourism Partnership, Eastbourne Borough Council is inviting local businesses including hotels and guesthouses to celebrate the launch of the Sussex Breakfast at 10.30am on Tuesday 24 February. Eastbourne businesses can come along to The Cavendish Hotel, taste a Sussex Breakfast and sign up to the scheme promising tastier and healthier food. 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. 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. Cllr Steve Wallis, Eastbourne Borough Council spokesperson for Tourism, commented: "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 initiative is already being rolled out elsewhere in the county with 33 businesses already serving a Sussex Breakfast.