Robin Rea of Ottery St Mary's 'Rusty Pig' joined Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty in Southend to help raise awareness of the benefits of using blood as an ingredient in cooking.
Jamie and Jimmy are currently filming a new series of their popular show, Friday Night Feast, and invited Robin to cook a dish using his renowned black pudding to help them raise awareness of how blood should be viewed as more than just a waste product.
Robin said: “Blood is a by-product of farming livestock and it is such a shame that all too often it goes to waste. It has actually been described by...
To celebrate and showcase the black pudding recipes we tested recently with Dr jan Davison for an Oxford Food & Drink Symposium, Rusty Pig is hosting an evening of black pudding and Bourbon cocktails on Friday 13th May.
On arrival: Lamb & Rosewater Pudding (Mrs Rundell 1805) with Mint Julip apéritif
First course: Rusty pig's own Black Pudding (Rusty Pig 2012) with an Old Fashioned
Second course: Black pudding the English way, with a hint of Spain (Patrick Lamb 1726) with Bourbon Mack
The team at Rusty Pig in Ottery St Mary has been busy testing traditional English recipes to help a food writer with her research for an Oxford Food and Cookery Symposium.
Dr Jan Davison is presenting a paper looking at how offal was not always viewed as food for the poor, but was instead served up for the very wealthy, including the royal court.
“Although the principal ingredients in black pudding are seemingly modest, the expensive seasonings used as flavourings indicate it was held in high regard,” Jan explained. She asked chef Robin Rea to make up the recipes as he is...
