GUIDE TO SUPPLIERS Good Game
www.good-game.co.uk
Devon-based Good Game prides itself on its nitrate- and nitrite-free cures. Just salt is used to cure its range of traditional charcuterie, which includes venison and rabbit salami, pancetta, face bacon (guanciale), coppa ham and air-dried leg hams. It also produces chorizos flavoured with UK-grown chilli varieties such as Dorset Naga and Dartmoor Chipotle. Run by Steve Williams and Pete Woodham Kay, Good Game supplies a variety of customers, including Darts Farm, River Cottage, the England RFU and charcuterie specialist Cannon & Cannon.
Hammond Charcuterie www.hammondcharcuterie.co.uk
Artisan producer Rachel Hammond hopes to supply shops both north and south of her Scottish Borders home this year. She produces a broad range, from guanciale to rilletes, using locally sourced free range meat and wild game. Her repertoire also includes lomo, air-dried ham (matured for a minimum of 12 months) and Venezuelan-style chorizos, which have a sweeter flavour than most recipes. Hammond also offers a number of smoked lines, like oak-smoked wild venison, produced in a 160-year-old smokehouse.
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Forest Pig
www.forestpig.com
Forest Pig Charcuterie produces salami, lomo, coppa, air-dried ham and pancetta from its own pigs that forage in Shropshire’s Wyre Forest – thanks to a collaboration with the Forestry Commission – as well as a range of game salami. Its latest creations are truffle salami and the Forest Flame hot snacking chorizo. Owner Jeremy Levell has recently recruited a Mangalitza boar to enhance his range with the breed’s famed dark, rich meat. Forest Pig’s salamis can be purchased whole (around 500g, £25/kg) for in-store slicing while smaller wrapped salamis start at £5.50 and sliced vacuum packs are available from £1.60. It also offers an A4-sized charcuterie platter pack at £6.60 (RRP £9.90).
Great Glen Charcuterie www.greatglencharcuterie.com
Great Glen Charcuterie is based in the rugged Highlands of Scotland and uses sustainably sourced local wild venison from the surrounding area. The deer roam freely in the Scottish hills and feed on heather, wild plants and grass, making the meat low in fat and high in iron. The company produces venison salamis, venison chorizos, venison pepperonis, venison bresaola and smoked venison, while its green pepper salami was named Great Taste 2013 Charcuterie Product of the Year. All of these products are available in retail packs and whole for slicing in store.
Iberica Delights www.idelights.co.uk
Iberica Delights imports and distributes a range of authentic Spanish products, including charcuterie made with the meat of acorn-fed black Iberian pigs’. These include chorizo, salchichon, morcilla Iberica, lomo Ibérico and Jamon Iberico Bellota. It also carries Jamón Serrano, fresh cooking chorizo from Galicia and several varieties of morcilla (black pudding).
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Guide to British & Continental Charcuterie 2015-16
A supplement to Fine Food Digest