Tasting the Wild Pheasants

Last weekend saw us on the final shoot for Taste The Wild of 2012. The variety, quality and just out and out fun we have had on location with the team has made this probably my favourite job of all time. For the last section of the programme, ‘autumn’, we met up with Chris, Rose and their latest member of the crew, Caco, at their woods in North Yorkshire. Chris spent a few hours foraging for mushrooms and by the end of the morning we had a brilliant selection ready for inclusion in the main dish.

This dish was pheasant, which Chris then showed us how to prepare like an expert. I have to say it looked stunning and thirty lucky guys were going to taste it the following day, when we de-camped to Lancashire and followed a Pheasant shoot run by friends of Chris and Rose. I was accompanied on this trip, as I have been on all the shoots for TTW, by Paul Newton of PJN Photography – he is working on a book with Chris that will be produced along side the DVD/TV show that red90 are making. I have known Paul for well over a decade now and I have to say that the images that he has produced for this project are quite simply superb, you will be hard pressed to find better food photography in any book by any celebrity chef. Follow his blog and see for yourself!

This shoot followed straight on the back of the shoot in the midlands for our friends at Whitemoor Lakes, which was pretty intense in itsself – so LOTS of coffee was consumed during the three days we were away up North. The VLOG ends with us leaving Lancashire, I don’t think we would have been comprehensible to anyone without 10000 milligrammes of caffeine in their system after that. Plenty of espressos & lattes were drunk on the 6 hour return leg – on our never ending quest to keep Starbucks, Costa & the other great coffee houses in business..

Enjoy the VLOG – Whitemoor Lakes will be added very soon![wpvideo PFNQAWPT]