Dining Dining
THIS year’s Kent Game & Equine Festival will see some wonderful mouth-watering delights being prepared in the event’s game cookery theatre. The event, taking place at the Kent Showground in Detling
over the weekend of March 26-27, will welcome a variety of local chefs from award-winning restaurants, including Dev Biswal from The Ambrette and Raja from the Raja of Kent. Both will be cooking tasty game curries. The cookery theatre is sponsored by the British Association
for Shooting and Conservation, whose Game’s On campaign was created to encourage the appreciation and increased consumption of wild game as a local, healthy and nutritious food source. It was launched in 2005 and Jill Knowles. who spearheaded the campaign for BASC, will be appearing at the festival and producing some spectacular dishes that can easily be reproduced at home. In addition, Charles Jardine, Britain’s most famous and
internationally renowned fisherman, also has a passion for cooking and, based on the ‘catch it and cook’ theme, will be demonstrating a fabulous ‘Fisherman’s lunch – Food fit for Fishers’ in the game cookery theatre.
THE Secret Garden in Mersham Le Hatch, Ashford, was named Restaurant of the Year at this year’s Taste of Kent awards. It beat off competition from the other two finalists – two times former winner The Mulberry Tree in Boughton Monchelsea and Eddie Gilbert’s in Ramsgate.
The Plough at Stalisfield
Green won the popular Kent Dining Pub of the Year accolade. This is the second time the award has been bestowed on this authentic country pub, which prides itself on strong links with the local farming community, where it sources seasonal ingredients for the menu. Kent Meat Retailer of the Year
was awarded to Godmersham Game, based in Mystole, near Canterbury. The glittering awards night, held at Leeds Castle, recognised the county’s most outstanding food and drink producers, retailers, restaurants, dining pubs and farmers’ market during 2010.
KENT restaurateur Rezaul Raja who owns the Raja of Kent restaurants in Maidstone and Tenterden was honoured at a special seminar and dinner at the House of Commons. Labour leader Ed Miliband was among those attending the event hosted by the Development Council for Bangladeshis in the UK. The seminar recognised the contribution to the UK
economy by the half million British Bangladeshi community and outlined the challenges they face in the 21st century. Accepting the award, Raja said: “It’s a great honour to
receive such recognition given that there are over 18,000 Indian restaurants in the UK.”
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