The Farmers Mart Jun/Jul 2014 - Issue 34 | Page 62

BUTCHERY SEARCH IS ON FOR BEST BUTCHER’S SHOP 2014 The search is on for the UK’s best butchery business, with Meat Trades Journal urging butchers throughout the country to enter for the chance of winning the accolade. The Butcher’s Shop of the Year Awards 2014 will seek out the best butcher’s and farm shops throughout the UK, as well as recognising rising stars within the industry, and culminates in a hotly contested awards lunch in London in November. The competition covers butcher’s shops up and down the country, with the winner in each region going head-to-head to pick out the best shop in the UK. On top of this, there are also national awards for Farm Shop of the Year, Halal Butcher’s Shop of the Year, Butcher’s Plus, looking at larger operations, and the ever-popular Young Butcher of the Year. This year will also see the continuation of last year’s new category, New Business of the Year, aimed at recognising a butchery business set up in the past two years. The event takes place on 14 November at the Rosewood London Hotel. To enter email: [email protected] or call 01293 610431. Roar meat: Katy Perry tucks in to meat from Manchester butcher Manchester butcher’s W H Frost found themselves preparing racks of lamb for Katy Perry before her show at the Phones 4U Arena in May. Throughout her stay in Manchester the butchers supplied Perry and her entourage with pork fillets, rib eye steaks, chicken supremes and yesterday, 30 racks of lamb. Despite being a vegetarian, pop-star Prince also enlisted the butcher’s help during his brief period in the city in May. The Purple Rain singer also ordered rib-eye steaks, fillet barrels and chicken for his band members. Lee Horseley Frost, operations director for W H Frost, who yesterday tweeted a picture of the racks on route to Perry said: “Whenever there are big stars at the Arena or the Apollo in Manchester we supply them with their meat. We work closely with two catering companies and whenever there is a big star in town they get in touch.” The butcher’s, which is based in Chorlton, Manchester, has been family-run since 1890 and won the Manchester Food and Drink Award in 2011 for best food and drink outlet. It also came second in the top five butchers on visitmanchester.com Strathearn special Pie is ‘delicious’ say William and Kate! The local producers behind the development of a very special “Strathearn Pie” are delighted the culinary creation proved a huge hit during the recent visit by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The Royal couple, known in Scotland as the Earl and Countess of Strathearn, described the pie as “delicious” during their visit to The Famous Grouse Experience at Glenturret Distillery, Crieff. The special pie was made using two ingredients for which Strathearn is 62 Jun/Jul 2014 FarmersMart famed - top quality Scotch Beef PGI and award-winning Glenturret Scotch whisky. The pie’s ingredient list also included locally-grown root vegetables but the full recipe is a closely-guarded secret. The couple and other guests sampled the Strathearn Pie during a visit to The Famous Grouse Experience at Glenturret, Scotland’s oldest working distillery. During their visit William and Kate also sampled and bottled their own Glenturret whisky as well as officially opening the new-look Famous Grouse Experience, which attracts more than 100,000 people to the distillery each year. To read more, visit www.farmers-mart.co.uk