20May2008
May Madness so far
Posted by admin under: Game Fair; General.
Mark was out demonstrating at the slow food market at south bank on the 2 3 4 5 of May, great atmosphere.
Mark finished a demo with Eric Reaves master butcher at the
27April2008
General update for April
Posted by admin under: General; In The Media.
Mark was called by Optomen TV, after they had read his article in sporting shooter and wanted him to take Gordon Ramsey out ferreting. The following week Mark organised it for him to go with his good friend Guy Ledger. Mark was asked to do the catering on the film shoot and the great man came back for thirds of rabbit and tomato pasta and seconds of game pie.
The telegraph online came and made some films of mark cooking and shooting for the real food festival, have a look at http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1513658557
The brief footage of mark gutting the rabbits with Gordon and his son jack is here
28March2008
General Updates
Posted by admin under: General.
Game for everything start to do hot food due to demand from both customers and show organisers. So you no longer have to eat burger or fish and chip you can have rabbit and tomato pasta.
The sporting shooter came down and did some filming of mark cooking so if you want to know how to skin a rabbit, pluck a pigeon and so on watch these videos
14February2008
Essex YFC Valentine’s cooking
Posted by admin under: General.
In the mood for romance mark go teamed up with Essex yfc to run a cooking course on valentines day called cooking to get your bird moist. This was to support the claim that I could show any one how to cook a meal that would impress the pants off any girl. So we got 10 Essex lads, a few pigeons and 11
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6GKU3QgqyDE[/youtube]
10February2008
Mark goes Ferreting
Posted by admin under: General.
Mark goes out ferreting with Sporting Shooter’s editor James Marchington.
Read about it here.
6January2008
Cooking jaunt in Italy
Posted by admin under: Cooking Demo; General.
For the last 3 days Mark has been cooking at the prestigious Primonovecento and Ribot restaurant in Milan after in invitation from the Frediani family. Mark described it as a “truly mind blowing experiance which has changed my cooking and I’m very thankful for the time they took to show me how they run their restaurants and some of secrets behind thier famous dishes.”
20November2007
Mark speaks to Dartford National Farmers Union
Posted by admin under: Needs A Home.
Mark was the guest speaker at the Swanley and Dartford NFU AGM. He was invited to talk at the meeting where he gave a brief speech on the rise of his rural business and the challenges rural producers face.
10November2007
Posted by admin under: Cooking Demo.
Mark was out demonstrating at the East of England Christmas Festival
29October2007
Mark gets cooking with Muddy Matches
Posted by admin under: Cooking Demo; General.
The Muddy Matches girls are currently doing a marathon trip round the country get involved with all things countryside. Mark gave them some instruction in the fine art of game preperation and cooking. Read there account here
16October2007
Mark cooks for the Slow Food Movement
Posted by admin under: Cooking Demo.
Mark cooked a wonderful menu for London’s Slow Food Movement.
Teal liver pate; Pintail confit; air-dried Pintail; salted, cured and smoked Widgeon, served with fresh brioche and kumquat jam.
followed by
Pan-fried fillet of Roe deer
and
Conference pear tarte tatin
Mark also gave a demo of how to skin and joint hare and then make a Ragout of hare.
Just incase you don’t believe how good it was read it here first hand from Slow Foodie