Via EDP24…

TV chef Marco Pierre White…came to the Somerleyton Estate, near Lowestoft, to create an original dish from local produce for his new series, Marco’s Great British Feast.

He said: “I was surprised to discover that squirrel is considered a delicacy in certain parts of the UK and quite widely eaten. Having tried it I can see why.

“We tend to be squeamish about eating this small mammal but, when you think about it, it’s no different to eating rabbit.”

The meal - squirrel with walnuts - was cooked in the kitchens at the estate’s award-winning Fritton House hotel where the fruit of the day’s shoot was also made into a squirrel and mushroom pie.

Oh, you’re killing me guys…

A PROFESSIONAL forager from Kent is to front a new BBC show called Roadkill Café.

Fergus Drennan will use the programme to promote mown-down foxes, rats, hedgehogs, badgers and squirrels over processed food.

Mr Drennan, who describes himself as a “vegetarian who eats roadkill”, runs a company called Wild Man which sells fresh mushrooms, nuts, berries and weeds.

Eating roadkill, said Mr Drennan, is acceptable because “it’s not been killed on your behalf”.

He added: “It’s not factory farmed or pumped full of antibiotics. It is fresh, local, seasonal and nutritionally rich.”

The series will be screened on BBC Three next year.

Via kentnews.co.uk

I suddenly have the urge to voluntarily hurl…

On Thanksgiving why not enjoy some delicious squirrel stew with the Swedish Chef?