Meet the chef taking on a supermarket giant for selling New Zealand venison over British
With wild deer stocks higher than ever, imported venison is a depressing sight says Mike Robinson
Chef Mike Robinson
Britain’s leading game chef, Mike Robinson, has attacked M&S for stocking New Zealand venison. Robinson, a TV chef whose restaurants include The Woodsman in Stratford-upon-Avon and The Elder in Bath, said that the move ‘puts into focus the madness of the world at the moment. There are more wild deer across Britain now than since Roman times, if not ever.’ The sight of M&S Select Farms new venison steaks, added Robinson, ‘makes me depressed.’
The best of Biting Talk podcast 2020, from food heroes to the finest cocktails
Listen to the highlights of a year of lively conversations with the great and good of the food and drink world
William Sitwell recording Biting Talk
Credit: Albert Sitwell
With 168 guests across some 60 shows from March until December, featuring celebrity chefs, famous food writers, leading retailers, restaurant critics, food historians, drinks entrepreneurs and one amazing mixologist, Biting Talk really was Britain’s liveliest food and drink podcast in 2020.
Now, in a special episode for Christmas I look back at some of the Biting Talk highlights of 2020.
On this Best of Biting Talk, we’ll hear Marcus Wareing musing on an alternative career as a farmer, Sabrina Ghayour teaching us how to ‘Persian-up’ our kitchens, and Andy Varma describing how a sprinkling of love makes his recipes sing, while Claude Bosi reflects on the day he first arrived in London and stood alone on a train platform wit
The Northamptonshire cheesemaker forced to crowdfund to stay in business
Having turned to cheesemaking after he was made redundant seven years ago, Gary Bradshaw now faces closure thanks to the pandemic
Rachael and Gary Bradshaw, owners of Hamm Tun Fine Foods
Credit: Hamm Tun
A Northamptonshire-based cheesemaker threatened with closure as his business struggles in the light of Covid-related restrictions is battling for survival by urging people to pledge to eat his cheese in 2021. Gary Bradshaw, founder of Hamm Tun, producers of traditional English cheeses, has launched a page on the website Crowdfunder with the aim of raising £40,000, a sum that will enable him to stay afloat.