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Oliver's new show tackles road-kill | Quote: | Thursday December 14, 01:50 PM
It is unlikely to be a hit for children's lunch boxes but Jamie Oliver is making a new TV show about the benefits of eating road-kill.
The BBC programme, by Oliver's TV production company Fresh One, features pioneering forager and road-kill chef Fergus Drennan. His delicacies include badger meat balls, roasted duck and wild squirrel stew.
But unlike the meals served up in Oliver's kitchens and best-selling recipe books, Drennan's all have one thing in common - the animals met their deaths on the road.
Drennan, 35, an acquaintance of Oliver, provides the campaigning chef's restaurant Fifteen as well as celebrity hang-out The Ivy with freshly-foraged weeds, mushrooms, nuts and berries.
A passionate advocate of the benefits of road-kill, he wants to change Britain's eating habits and stop people consuming what he believes is bland rubbish. If viewers are inspired to follow his example, Drennan's road-kill recipes are expected to feature on the BBC Three programme website.
In the show, Road Kill Cafe, Drennan goes to Sandwich in Kent to persuade locals to forage for the first time and discover the delights of road-kill meat. At the end of a three-week stay, he holds a wild meat banquet, offering people the choice to eat either the food he sourced from beaches, forest undergrowths and roadside gutters or from normal channels.
While most people opted for his soup starter, featuring seaweed scooped up from the beach, many went back to the regular menu for the main course and turned down his braised rabbit and paella with rabbit and pheasant, all sourced from the road.
BBC Three controller Julian Bellamy said: "The law is that you can't eat something that you yourself knocked over. You can only eat what you find. So Drennan has been combing the roads of Britain to look for animals.
"The only meat he will eat is road-kill. He eats badgers, squirrels, pretty much anything but a domestic pet. The only thing that he wouldn't eat is a rat. The animal must be fresh. If rigor mortis has set in it's not eaten. Otherwise it's immediately back to his kitchen."
Drennan, who describes himself as vegetarian, has said: "If you haven't seen or heard it being killed, and it's not been killed on your behalf, then it's OK."
Source: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/14122006...s-new-show-tackles-road-kill.html
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Here are the various emotions I went through while reading this...
            
Yeah, course you're a veggie mate...  Oh my aching ribs!
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