Articles By: kent

Commercial Burgers & Mince Meat

Here’s an unpleasant thought Did you know that the mince meat you buy from supermarkets and the burgers, bolognese or any mince beef based dish you eat in most commercial settings – fast food, pubs etc – could easily be made from the meat of up to 400 different cows. 400!! So...

July 19th, 2010 | Food Blog | Read More

The ‘real’ price of fish!

The scandal of the British fishing industry! Please think about this for a minute. We were talking to a fisherman last week about the decline of the British fishing industry and we learnt a startling fact. This man (we’re not going to name him) is a third generation fisherman in East Anglia....

July 14th, 2010 | Food Blog | Read More

BBQ – burgers, steaks & chicken

Summer’s here! Break out the barbeque But what to put on it? A dodgy burger from the supermarket frozen aisle? Or a guaranteed 100% beef burger from Farm, Park & Wild. YOU WILL TASTE THE DIFFERENCE – we promise. Burgers 100% beef or susage meat burgers with ABSOLUTLEY NO added bran...

June 18th, 2010 | BBQ | Read More

Holiday Cottages Norfolk – Holiday Food Boxes

A Locally sourced products delivered to your Norfolk holiday cottage Coming to North Norfolk on holiday? Great we can’t wait to see you, and to make sure you spend as much time as possible enjoying our fabulous county how about we do your shopping for you? Locally Sourced North Norfolk Goodies We’ve...

June 18th, 2010 | holiday cottage boxes | Read More

From our kitchen

Locally sourced ingredients turned into great food at the FPW HQ Kitchen In February 2010 we started work on our Farm, Park & Wild kitchen so we can turn our locally sourced meat, fish and vegetables in to fabulous dishes for our customers. Here are just some of the highlights, a full list...

June 18th, 2010 | farm park wild kitchen | Read More

How to cook the perfect steak

How to cook the perfect steak. Everyone has a view on this subject. Well here’s ours. 1. Only choose well hung steak, don’t touch that bright red stuff the supermarkets will have you believe is prime steak – it’s not. Beef needs to hang on the bone to ensure you get that succulent...

April 20th, 2010 | Food Blog, How to cook | Read More

Food labelling, don't be misled

The Last Significant Change….remember these words people. Consider if you will the much misunderstood practice of commercial food labelling. See if you can identify with this scenario. You’ve picked up a foodstuff in the supermarket, checked out the label and seen the words ‘Produced in the UK’...

December 13th, 2009 | Food Blog | Read More

Farming & Food TV Shows We Love

There are some amazing farming & food TV shows out there right now. Lets start with Jimmys Food Factory. Jimmy Doherty investigates what really goes into our supermarket food by setting up his own food factory to recreate processed ‘food’. This week saw Jimmy having a stab at square...

November 25th, 2009 | Food Blog | Read More

A Shortage of quality Christmas turkeys?

This Sky news article made us laugh this week. Apparently there is going to be a shortage of quality Christmas turkeys this year. Delve a little deeper into the story and we find that the source is Kelly’s Turkeys. Kelly’s are undoubtedly fabulous farmers and they have built an amazing business,...

November 12th, 2009 | Food Blog | Read More

A great idea let down by retailers

‘Label sustainably caught fish so people can choose for themselves’ Jersey might be some distance from our North Norfolk home but we really like an idea from the Jersey Fisherman’s Association to label sustainably caught fish so customers know what they are buying. Why wouldn’t...

October 22nd, 2009 | Food Blog | Read More