Full Version: Only Jamie Oliver could get away with this one...
"Fancy squirrel stew or roast fox?
The Times December 15, 2006
Fancy squirrel stew or roast fox? TV chef gets meals from tarmac to table
Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent
Will fresh badger burgers replace Turkey Twizzlers? A new series from Jamie Oliver will champion the culinary merits of roadkill.
In the BBC programme Road Kill Café, viewers are shown how to forage by the roadside for foxes, squirrels and chickens that have met a sticky end.
Fergus Drennan, a food forager who supplies restaurants including The Ivy and Oliver’s Fifteen, demonstrates how to test animals for rigor mortis. If the death is recent, Drennan promises to create a tasty meal from tarmac to table within 24 hours of bumper impact.
The programme, created for BBC Three by Oliver’s Fresh One production company, aims to show that fresh fox, hedgehog and badger have a nutritional value that is greater than supermarket meats.
Drennan, 35, describes himself as a “vegetarian who eats roadkill” because “it has not been killed on your behalf”. He invited locals in Sandwich, Kent, to join him on a three-week foraging expedition. The programme concludes with a banquet of food found on beaches, in forest undergrowth and in roadside gutters.
The RSPCA warned the producers to stay on the right side of the law. A spokeswoman said: “We have welfare concerns over roadkill food. Participants may have to prove that an animal was already dead when they found it. Badgers and deer are protected under the law and it is an offence to possess any part of a badger.”
Drennan, who has been a forager for 15 years, argues that he is reviving skills learnt by our ancestors as they rose to the challenge of survival. He commends roadkill on his website, saying: “It is fresh, local, seasonal and nutritionally rich.”
The programme is accompanied by an appetite-threatening series in which diners follow a meal from farm and abattoir to their table.
Each programme in Meat follows the life and death of one animal. An invited group witnesses the slaughter at a small abattoir of a different species each night.
Once the carcass has been prepared, a butcher explains the different cuts of meat. A chef then prepares a meal for the audience. The BBC said that the programme “demystifies the process of how food ends up on our plates”. "
God how I miss American TV!!!
I met Oliver last summer, and have eaten at his Rest. frequently; but this is a bit much!
Seriously, last month we attended Jamie’s Big Night (an annual event), which is the big charity fundraiser for the Fifteen Foundation and the Great Ormond Street Hospital. The fundraiser pulled in around £300k+ for both charities. (CONGRATULATIONS!!!)
Great Ormond Street Hospital is an international center of excellence for treating sick children and teaching and training children's specialists. They are the largest center for research into childhood illness outside the United States. They are a teaching hospital, and rely heavily on charities and gifts to pay for its training of children's specialists.
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he can eat roadkill in my bed any day, just don't ask me to kiss him afterwards
Jamie is very cute- but I think Tyler Florence is hotter
QUOTE(jaragonus @ Dec 15 2006, 07:41 PM) 
Jamie is very cute- but I think Tyler Florence is hotter
I have to agree with that
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