Top Chefs Share Wild Flavours
Top Chefs Share Wild Flavours
Putaruru hunter Cameron Petley brought wild food flavours to the attention of judges and competitors in the recent NZ Master Chef Television series. His signature venison dish was a hit.
Wild food flavours is a focus at this year’s annual SIKA Show and a range of top Taupo chefs will be on stage at the weekend event to demonstrate their skills and give visitors to the show an opportunity to sample their food.
“Born in a pub, the makers of Glasseye Creek Wild Meat Sauce, tell a great yarn about developing their product but it lives up to its reputation as the perfect complement to wild meats, ” says Event Director Mark Bridgman. “We want people to come to the SIKA Show and find out that you can create wild food flavours without hunting. But we also want them to learn that hunting provides organic free-range food, and helps to protect the environment.”
Taupo Beef growers, Mike and Sharon Barton, will showcase their free-range, grass-fed beef at the event. Their beef is the first in New Zealand to get the Waikato Regional Council environmental standard tick for protecting Lake Taupo and comes highly recommended from a number of local restaurants, including Plateau who’ve been successfully trialling it to customers.
Towncentre Taupo’s General Manager Traceylee Hooton will commentate and question as the chefs from Vine, Plateau, Mole and Chicken, Master of India, Pasta Mia and Heritage of India reveal their flavours and skills as they prepare wild food recipes – free for everyone to sample.
Adding to the SIKA Show’s line-up is Wilderness Lodge’s Tom McLaughlin who uses traditional Maori cooking methods and food from the bush. Locally roasted Volcanic Coffee adds aroma to the mix.
The SIKA show is the largest hunting trade show in Australasia and the competition attracts hunters from all over New Zealand. The show is at the Taupo Event Centre 15 and 16 October.
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