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Food Safari: unique cookery courses and food events that go further than a traditional cookery school to find out more about where food comes from.
Food Safari hosts a packed programme of butchery workshops, wild food forays, fishing trips, cookery courses and visits to artisan producers from bakers and brewers to cheese makers and smokehouses. Join one of our fun full or half day workshops or tours or an evening demonstration or talk. As well as trying a new skill, enjoying fantastic food and drink, you’ll be inspired by the passion and knowledge of the farmers, foragers, fishermen, butchers and bakers who lead each Food Safari.
Food Safari will give you a fresh perspective on the food we eat. We run a year round programme of cookery courses, butchery workshops and behind-the-scenes tours that are all about discovering more about where food comes from. Many of our days are properly field to fork or sea to plate: we visit a farm, learn some butchery, cook some great food and enjoy a feast.
On a Food Safari you will be inspired by people who are passionate and dedicated to producing great food and drink. Our tours take you behind-the-scenes to visit farms, smokehouses, artisan bakeries and butcheries that are never normally open to the public. You will get hands-on and learn something new whether it’s shucking oysters, boning partridge, from identifying edible mushrooms to nurturing sourdough bread.
Our courses and events run in Suffolk throughout the year from mushroom foraging in the autumn, game butchery and cookery in the winter, wild food foraging in the spring or off-shore fishing.
Call 01728 621380 with any questions or to book
Meet the experts
Meet and learn from the experts who’ll share their passion and knowledge for farming, foraging, fishing, butchery or bakery.
Get exclusive access to farms
and artisan food producers
Go behind-the-scenes and visit farms, smokehouses, bakeries and butcheries that are never normally open to the public, like Pinneys of Orford (oysters and smoked fish), the Wild Meat Company (game), and Blythburgh Free Range Pork.
Learn new skills and discover new recipes
Learn something new from shucking oysters to making a sausages, from identifying edible mushrooms to filleting fish.
Enjoy gourmet food and drink
Feast on the fruits of the day, our events culminate in a gourmet feast showcasing the fruits of the day.
Featured Safaris
Children’s Food Safari
Children, Pork, Wild Food.
This day will give children aged 6-12 the chance to make the connection between the food we eat and the farm it comes from. We'll spend the day at a small-holding, and meet the pigs and free-range chickens, geese and bees.
Seafood in a Day
Seafood.
Come on board our chartered boat on the river at Orford and we’ll pull up the pots to find lobster, crab and other shellfish. Back on dry land visit Pinney’s of Orford traditional smokehouse and learn how oysters have been cultivated in Butley Creek since the Romans. After a relaxing seafood and smoked fish lunch you can learn how to shuck oysters and carve smoked salmon.
Special Offer
Enjoy a gourmet Seafood Weekend in Suffolk. Stay in style and join a Seafood Safari on 29-30 June. We’ve teamed up with the beautiful Old Rectory boutique bed and breakfast to offer a luxury seafood weekend including two places on Seafood in a Day in Orford and two nights accommodation at The Old Rectory with dinner on Friday night.
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Fantastic day, loads of variety, excellent food.
Lucy
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Read Polly's blog for more information on food events and experiences in East Anglia and London. Polly likes to go out and meet the producers who are full of infectious enthusiasm for their produce.
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