Wild Meat in a Day – prepare, cook, and eat!

Whether you are a novice or a more experienced cook, nervous of blood or keen to get cutting, Wild Meat in a Day promises to be a fun and hands-on day of, preparing, cooking and eating a variety of feathered and furred game. Robert Gooch and Ray Kent of The Wild Meat Company, one of Rick Stein’s Food Heroes will share their wealth of experience about shooting, and hanging and ageing game. Ray will lead a butchery class that will give you a step-by-step guide to preparing locally-shot game.

In the main game season (November - February) we will tackle small game and you will have the chance to bone and roll a partridge and to skin and bone a rabbit to take home. Outside those months we look at venison and you'll will be shown how to prepare your own haunch of venison. The butchery workshop will focus on knife skills and give you some tips for preparing game at home.

After a short break you can relax a little while Madalene Bonvini-Hamel of the British Larder demonstrates some exquisite, mouth watering game dishes as well as passing on tips, ideas and advice for cooking game in your own kitchen.

Finally we'll enjoy a gourmet game lunch with plenty or wine.

Food Safari’s founders are Polly and Tim Robinson, who share a passion for sourcing, cooking and eating food made from fresh local produce. We have put down roots in the Suffolk countryside after many years in London.

Like many people, we were shopping more and more at farmers' markets to get our hands on fresh, local food and we really enjoyed meeting the producers who are so full of infectious enthusiasm for their produce.

Part of Polly’s family have been farming organically in North Wales since the 1970s, so we both knew there was incredible hard work and dedication behind the finished product. We wanted to find a way to get to meet these food heroes, to hear the unique stories, fascinating insights, and to experience the beautiful landscapes of the Suffolk countryside.

Suffolk is firmly on the food map and its outstanding natural countryside and coastal beauty combined with an abundance of local producers, restaurants, specialist food shops and the acclaimed annual Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival make it a perfect destination for foodie holidays. We hope Food Safari will become a new way to explore Suffolk and get to know the people and landscapes that make it special.