The power of social media is undeniable, whether you’re keeping in touch with distant friends and relations via Whatsapp, promoting a business, or campaigning on a cause dear to your heart. One region of social media that is entirely wholesome is the ‘game cookery’ subculture. It is populated with game enthusiasts, both professional and amateur, who are simply looking to get other people as excited about cooking with this country’s amazing wild harvest as they are.
Each year GunsOnPegs sponsors the Eat Game Awards category that looks to celebrate the work of these ambassadors for our way of life, whose efforts do so much to help safeguard the future of fieldsports by introducing the wider public to the joys of cooking and eating game. This year’s shortlisted candidates have been nominated by the shooting community and beyond, and embody this ethos perfectly. Cast your vote for your favourite nominee to ensure that they get the recognition that you think they deserve.
Anna Rogers (Very Good Venison)
Anna uses her Facebook and Instagram accounts to share a wide variety of recipes with her 6,000 followers, which are designed for home cooks to try. Although venison features strongly in the recipes (her husband is a professional deerstalker) her pages also feature other game meats, including pheasant, partridge and even squirrel. With everything from simple slow cooker recipes to wild-food takes on favourites such as ‘stalkers’ pie’ to fancier dinner party-worthy dishes, there’s something for everyone.
Chelsea King
Competitive clay shooter and enthusiastic game shot Chelsea has one of the biggest Instagram followings in the shooting world. She not only showcases the joys of spending time in the countryside and helps to bring more women into shooting, but uses her platform to share game recipes and to promote the work of the Country Food Trust, for which she is an ambassador.
Highland Game
Highland Game is one of the UK’s biggest game processors, supplying retailers like Aldi, Lidl, Tesco, Asda and Waitrose, and having its own retail brand. However, it is for the company’s work in helping to get venison on the menu in the NHS that the company has been nominated for recognition in this year’s awards.
The Game Chef
Tom Godber-Ford Moore is perhaps best known as TheGameChef on Instagram and Facebook, where he has built a strong following, who come for his inventive and experimental wild food cooking. He’s also a regular contributor to the Countryside Alliance magazine, writing witty and entertaining articles which include mouth-watering recipes for everything from barbecued muntjac haunch to salami and pheasant paella. His pheasant goujons stall is a regular feature at fairs and events up and down the country.
Angela Carter
Private chef Angela Carter plies her trade on a game shoot, cooking up creative game-based dishes that continually wow the guns. She shares her cooking skills via her Facebook and Instagram accounts that feature beautiful photography of her creations.
Charlie Barley
Charlie is the daughter of a farmer and showcases her life in the countryside to her 18.5K Instagram followers, including plenty of shoot day photos on both sides of the beating line. She’s a strong supporter of British Game Week, and shares the occasional game-based recipe.
Bettws Hall
One of the best-known and highly-regarded shooting operations in the land, Bettws Hall regularly showcase the game-based meals and elevenses that they serve to their visiting teams of guns. They have also developed a range of Game to Eat boxes, which contain everything needed to prepare and cook a sustainable, wholesome meal for two, along with a recipe card.
Other categories
You can also vote for you favourite nominee in each of the following categories:
- Best Restaurant or Pub
- Best Game Chef
- Best Small Retailer
- Best Multiple Retailer
- Best Game Butcher
- Best Value Addeed Product or Innovation
- Best Game Educator
Click here to cast your votes!
Buy your tickets for the Eat Game Awards
The eventual winner in this category and all the other awards will be announced at a star-studded awards dinner at The Nave, Grand Junction Paddington on March 23rd 2023. Beginning with a drinks recepetion at 6pm and concluding with a three course game dinner, the event is a true celebration of the people who work tirelessly to promote the consumption of game to the wider public.
For tickets please contact Sandra Forkin on 07970 226832 or emal her.
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