THERE will be a real international flavour when Milton Abbot School holds its summer fair on Saturday, June 30.

Tempting the palette with tasty dishes from all around the world will be a number of international food stalls.

Tamami Benjamin, the organiser of the food stalls, said: 'As this is the Olympic Year the school's Parent Teachers Friends' Association thought it would be great if we could invite people from lots of different countries and let children learn and enjoy the uniqueness of each culture — as well as the things in common — through traditional food and costume etc.'

Among the dishes will be crispy duck and Chinese noodles from China, chick pea curry with cumin rice and onion bhajis from India, kebab with bread rolls with chilli sauce and fried plantain from Ghana, sushi from Japan, spicy cookies from Russia, sweets, cinnamon pistachio meringue, honey cookies with walnuts and Greek shortbread from Greece, cream tea, home-made scones with clotted cream and jam from England and burgers from America.

There will more to entertain, including craft stalls, a jumble sale, bar, live music, pony rides, bouncy castle, mini Olympics Games for all ages and a fancy dress competition with an international costume theme.

Pupils at the school are making flags of each country to decorate the food stalls.

Tamami, who has raised money in West Devon for victims of the tsunami that swamped part of Japan in 2011, added: 'We are also making a recipe book which includes all the mouthwatering food that each stall holder is going to cook at the fair for visitors to obtain on a donation basis. All the money raised from the recipe book will be donated to Milton Abbot School.'

Tamami, who runs a sushi shop every Wednesday during term time at Mavis, Milton Abbot Village Independent Store, said half of the profits from her Japanese sushi stall will be donated to tsunami survivors while other stallholders have offered to split the profit between the school and to help tsunami survivors.

She is aiming to send the second donation of £2,000 by the end of this year.