We recommend removing shot or bullet-damaged game meat before cooking to minimise any lead contamination.

“Mike Robinson has published a brand new book called 'Fit for Table: The cook's guide to game preparation - field to table'. 

This full colour, step-by-step guide will take you through each stage and covers all the common species (pheasant, salmon, trout, rabbit etc) as well as one or two more unusual (boar and squirrel).  So many cookery books begin with a list of ingredients and instructions, but offer no advice on how to get your quarry from field to table.  This book will fill that gap and will become a standard reference work for all field sportsmen and chefs.

The cost is £16.95 to order your copy, please go to www.countrybooksdirect.com

‘Fit for Table’ is reviewed in the November/December issue of BASC’s magazine Shooting and Conservation”

 

 

Discover the secrets to preparing your own game from skinning to smoking with Mark Gilchrist at Game for Everything. What could be more satifying than shooting, preparing and cooking your own game, knowing it has lead a free and normal life. Wild game gives you the flavour that mass produced food doesn't have, with the added benefit of lower fat and no chemicals or anitbiotics pumped into it. No special skills are needed other than to know that you hold a knife with the end that doesn't hurt.

 

Skinning a deer

Butchering a deer

Plucking, breasting and gutting a pigeon

 
Mark Gilchrist cooks rabbit in tomato pasta

 

Skinning and preparing a rabbit

Young farmers are taught to cook pigeon by leading game Chef Mark Gilchrist all in a bid to entertain their valentines.

 

Mark Gilchrist Cooking Demo Islington

 

Mark Gilchrist shows how to prepare a delicious pan-fried pigeon with spinach in just a few minutes. 

 

Mark Gilchrist shows us how to shoot prepare and cook Wood Pigeon

Mark Gilchrist, head chef of Game For Everything hunts, kills, prepares and cooks the perfect rabbit pasta.

 

For all there is to know about game prepatation visit the Game for Everything website