Seafood in a Day
Dates: Saturday 17 April 2010
Saturday 10 July 2010
Venue: Pinney’s of Orford
This unique day will take you from sea to plate via Pinney’s well known smokehouse at Butley Creek, near Orford on the Suffolk coast. Weather-permitting, we’ll start the day with a couple of hours on our chartered boat on the beautiful river Ore around Havergate Island and the internationally important nature reserve Orford Ness.
Our skipper will demonstrate lifting and baiting up of lobster pots and looking at the many different types of sea life and we hope to catch lobsters, edible, spider and hermit crabs, and other fish and shellfish.
Back on dry land we’ll take a behind the scenes tour of Pinney’s at Butley Creek, where oysters have been cultivated for centuries and Richard Pinney started smoking fish in the 1950s. We’ll learn about how all the fish are first salted or brined, and then hung in the smokehouse where they are then flavoured and preserved by smoke that is produced by gently smouldering whole oak logs in a specially designed smokebox.
We’ll return to Pinney’s own restaurant, The Butley Orford Oysterage in Orford’s pretty market square where we’ll have a hands-on demonstration of how to carve a whole salmon. Finally we’ll enjoy a relaxing seafood lunch.
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What you will get out of the day
You will experience the thrill of finding lobsters and crabs in the pots and learn their habitat and breeding. You'll see how oysters are cultivated, learn about the varieties and see them fresh from the river bed. You'll learn how Pinney's smoke their fish and have some fun learning how to open oysters and carve smoked salmon.
Where and Where
Butley Orford Oysterage, The Old Warehouse Quay Street Orford, Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 2NU
Times
- Saturday 17 April: 10 - 4.00
Saturday 10 July 2010: 10.00 - 4.00 - Cost: £150 per person, £275 per couple for the full day event.
To book please email polly@foodsafari.co.uk or call 01728 621380.