"Big Kev", perhaps the most famous oatcake in the world, and certainly the most valuable, is to go on display at the Potteries Museum in Hanley throughout December as a Christmas treat to Stokies.
The diamond encrusted culinary masterpiece was made in 1986 by a crack team of expert oatcakeers and jewellers to celebrate the National Back Yard Festival, held in Stoke that year. Owned by an investment bank in Zurich, Big Kev has not been on public display since 1997 when controversy overshadowed his appearance.
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| A typical diamond |
"That was the time when a group of Chinese claimed to have created a more valuable one," says oatcake historian Geoffrey Hunger-Games. "It caused quite the stir. Their claim was soon shown to be fraudulent though: they had used real gemstones but a fake oatcake."
Since then Big Kev has been kept in a special vault to keep the diamonds in prime condition.
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