October 2009

Welcome to our October Newsletter

Welcome to everyone, especially our new readers. We enjoyed meeting so many of you at the Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival in the fabulous September sunshine.

We are now in the midst of an autumn of seasonal treats including mushroom forays, game days and a new event: Beer Safari. Read on for more details.

Foodie gifts for foodie friends!

If your mind is turning Christmas shopping already, don't forget that Food Safari days make fantastic presents for foodie frien ds. We'll send you an attr active voucher for a specific event or to be used for any event. For more on Gift Vouchers and dates of all our spring events visit our web site now.

The whole hog

We have two last places available on Sunday's Free Range Pig in a Day. This is a real field to fork day; with a visit to the famous Blythburgh free range pigs, a pork butchery demonstration from an award-winning butcher and the chance to learn how to make your own sausages. We conclude the day with a sumptuous pork feast. Book now to find out why so many chefs will only use Blythburgh pork.

Free Range Pig in a Day

Sunday 11 October
The Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk. £150/person; £250/couple. Click here for full details

Mushroom Magic

Mushroom foraging is something we all fancy having a go at, but many of us are nervous to try without some expert advice. Join us on Saturday October 24th with Valerie Jordan, co-founder of the Tasty Mushroom Partnership, who will lead our foray and show us how to identify, pick and prepare the best mushrooms for the kitchen.

Over a gourmet wild food lunch at The Anchor at Walberswick, chef proprietor, Sophie Dorber will share some of her secrets of how to turn our finds into delicious meals.

Wild Food in a Day

Saturday 24 October - mushroom foray.
The Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk. £125/person or £200/couple including a gourmet lunch with wine or beer. Click here for full details

Nervous of feathers or keen to get plucking?

Alongside mushooms, game is abundant at this time of year and whether you are a country-dweller who shoots your own game or a townie more likely be found in the local butchers, you're bound to learn lots on Wild Meat in a Day.

In the expert hands of Robert Gooch and Ray Kent of the Wild Meat Company, you'll get stuck in preparing your own feathered and furred game to take home; before enjoying a four-course game feast with beer and wine expertly selected to match.

You can read The Spectator's glowing review of Wild Meat in a Day here.

Wild Meat in a Day

Sunday 8 November
The Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk. £150/person or £250/couple including a gourmet lunch. Click here for full details

Beer Safari - one for the road

Beer Safari is a new way to discover what goes into producing great beer. Join a guided exploration to learn about the key ingredients of beer and how it is brewed. With an expert guide, we will visit a hop farm, a malting barley farm and breweries. Along the way we will meet the farmers and brewers, hear their stories and taste their wares.

The Safari will culminate, appropriately, in one of Suffolk’s leading gastropubs - The Anchor at Walberswick. Owners, Mark and Sophie Dorber will present a tasting dinner at which a variety of local specialities will be served and accompanied by pairs of beers designed to show precisely how beer and food matching works at its best.

Beer Safari

Friday 27 Novemeber
The Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk. Click here for full detail

Cheese Please

Cheese workshop
If you ever wondered how much milk it takes to make a kilo of cheese or how the natural rind forms on brie? Then Cheese in a Day could be for you.

We'll spend the day with dairy farmers and artisan cheese-makers, Katherine & Jason Salisbury of Suffolk Farmhouse Cheese. We'll meet their beautiful pedigree Guernsey cows, see them being milked as well as seeing how the much-loved cheeses are made. We'll also spend some time making a curd cheese to take home.

Cheese in a Day

Sunday 7 March
Whitegate Farm, Creeting St Mary, Suffolk. £125/person or £200/couple. Click here for full detail.