Duck-flighting and dining with a Masterchef semi-finalist 0shares
Richard Negus goes shooting with a MasterChef semi-finalist who dishes up the best pigeon dish Richard has ever tasted
Freddie Innes is a man who, like the majority who shoot, clearly shares a love of good food. At 26, Freddie is a young chef, yet he already boasts an impressive CV, hard won in some of the finest professional kitchens in the UK.
A MasterChef semi-finalist
This passion for food started from the cradle. His grandfather was Raymond Budgen, headkeeper at the Paddockhurst estate in West Sussex. It was he who instilled the passion for, and the importance of, the raw ingredient. Mr Budgen reared his own birds in the traditional manner and felt he held a closer affinity with his stock nurturing them from egg, to release pen, to cover, to game cart. He drilled this ethos into the young Innes, not only with game but all ingredients in a dish. “My grandfather used to get very passionate,” recalle