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Leading game chef wins CLA Food Award One of the country's top game cooks has scooped the CLA Food Award at the CLA Game Fair today (Friday, July 22). Mike Robinson, chef and proprietor of The Pot Kiln at Yattendon in Berkshire, received the award from Defra Secretary of State Caroline Spelman at Cookery Demonstration Theatre at the world's leading countryside event.
The CLA Food Award is given to those who have made an outstanding contribution to local and regional food in Britain.
Mike Robinson said: "It is a great honour to receive this award from the Secretary of State and really unexpected. I don't cook to win awards, but this is greatly appreciated."
Introducing the award, CLA President William Worsley said: "Mike is a true champion of the rural economy. The Pot Kiln and Mike's other enterprises show that healthy, locally-sourced food can fire our imagination and appetites."
Mike and Katie Robinson have owned the Pot Kiln since 2005. It was his local family pub, where he enjoyed his first pint. This rural idyll only an hour from London, offers the best of seasonal local Berkshire game. The venison is particularly renowned and Mike stalks it all himself on neighbouring estates.
Mike Robinson discovered his passion for homely French cuisine when mountain-climbing in the French Alps as a student. Now he regularly brings his simple, rustic-style of cooking to the screen on the BBC, ITV and Sky. His third cookery book, Countrywise Kitchen Cookbook, is due out in October.
Mike was first spotted as a chef in Chamonix in 2002, where he was chosen to present Good Food Channel's Chalet Slaves. The series focused on Savoyard specialities enjoyed by seasonal chalet workers in Chamonix. He then went on to appear in Safari Chef, where he travelled through Africa seeking the best of the continent's cooking. |
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