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May 2008

The King's Week Restaurant was feauterd in The Countryman's Weekly

Mark was featured in olive magazine, in an article "entitled New British Talent" about the top 21 young foodies

March 2008

Mark begins training the students from the King's School Canterbury ready for the King's Week Restaurant, book here

February 2009
Mark is on the front page of Sporting Shooter magazine

Mark is featured in a five-page spread in Loaded.

7th december 2008
Mark is asked to do a cooking demonstration at the Irish craft fair at the RDS in dublin.

20-23 November 2008
Mark performs a cooking demonstration at the Slow Food London Market - Southbank Center to show how easy it is to cook a pheasant, in addition to his presence at the market

23 October 2008
Mark spends 5 days in Turin, Italy as a chef delegate for Slow Food London at the Terra Madre international Slow Food conference. The conference was attended by over 9000 delegates from 158 countries and comprised of discussion and debate on the issues affecting food production and consumption.

“I feel that this conference is a rare chance for me to promote game as being able to play a vital role in establishing food sources that are local, seasonable, sustainable and affordable, which is key to Slow Food's aims,” says Mark.

10 September 2008
Mark flies to Ireland where he has been asked to cater for the VIPs at the largest game fairs in the country.

2 September 2008

Mark is on the BBC Radio four food program, where he took the presenters rabbit shooting and showed them how to cook and prepare them.

15 July 2008
Mark starts filming with the Telegraph Online as part of the “My South African Feast” program. He says, "some of the things I had to cook were great wild ingredients. Try the malva pudding, as that was just so delicious and easy to make." Have a look here

12 July 2008
Game for Everything does some of the catering at the Lounge on the Farm Music Festival. Mark said, "What was very exciting for me as a cook was to see people who clearly don't have much exposure to game coming and trying it, and coming back for more. I can honestly say that I feel I have done more for game cooking in one weekend than I have done so far to date."

9 June 2008
Mark had a meeting to discuss the possibility of making a tv program on game cooking with a reputable tv firm

20 May 2008
Mark is out demonstrating at the Slow Food Market at South Bank on the 2 - 5 of May, great atmosphere.
Mark finishes a demo with Eric Reaves, master butcher at the Essex Young Farmers Show.

27 April 2008
The Telegraph Online came and made some films of Mark cooking and shooting as a promotion for the real food festival. At the event, Mark was not only exhibiting but also did a cooking demonstration and gave a rabbit skinning lesson to 30 eager Londoners, all of whom skinned their rabbits, took them home, and ate them.

Mark was called by Optomen TV, after they had read his article in sporting shooter and wanted him to take Gordon Ramsay out ferreting. The following week, Mark organized it for him to go with his good friend Guy Ledger. Mark was asked to do the catering on the film shoot and the great man came back for thirds of rabbit and tomato pasta and seconds of game pie.

The brief footage of Mark gutting the rabbits with Gordon and his son Jack is here.

28 March 2008

Game for Everything starts to prepare hot food due to demand from both customers and show organizers. You no longer have to eat burgers or fish and chips at fairs; you can have rabbit and tomato pasta.

Sporting Shooter came down and filmed Mark cooking this same week, so if you want to know how to skin a rabbit, pluck a pigeon and so on, check out our videos on youtube and on this site.

14 February 2008

Essex YFC Valentine’s cooking

In the mood for romance mark go teamed up with Essex YFC to run a cooking course on valentines day called cooking to get your bird moist. This was to support the claim that I could show any one how to cook a meal that would impress the pants off any girl. So we got 10 Essex lads, a few pigeons and 11 Essex girls (one for chef) and we made it happen, here is the video.

10 February 2008
Mark goes out ferreting with Sporting Shooter’s editor James Marchington.
Read about it here.

10 January 2008
James Marchington, the editor of Sporting Shooter magazine, asks Mark to have a column on game cooking in his magazine. If you are interested in game cooking, get hold of the Sporting Shooter to see his monthly column.

6 January 2008

Cooking jaunt in Italy
For the last 3 days Mark has been cooking at the prestigious Primonovecento and Ribot restaurants in Milan after an invitation from the Frediani family. Mark described it as a “truly mind blowing experience which has changed my cooking and I’m very thankful for the time they took to show me how they run their restaurants and some of secrets behind their famous dishes.”

20 November 2007

Mark speaks to Dartford National Farmers Union
Mark is the guest speaker at the Swanley and Dartford NFU AGM. He was invited to talk at the meeting where he gives a brief speech on the rise of his rural business and the challenges rural producers face.

10 November 2007

Mark is out demonstrating with Game for Everything at the East of England Christmas Festival.

29 October 2007

Mark gets cooking with Muddy Matches
The Muddy Matches girls are currently doing a marathon trip around the country to get involved with all things countryside. Mark gave them some instruction in the fine art of game preparation and cooking. Read their account here

16 October 2007

Mark cooks for the Slow Food Movement
Mark says, "I am naturally very excited about cooking for the Slow Food movement and can see game fitting in very well with the principles of good, clean, fair food. I am really pleased at the opportunity to promote game as food with Slow Food.

Mark cooked a menu for London’s Slow Food Movement:

Teal liver pate; Pintail confit; air-dried Pintail; salted, cured and smoked Widgeon, served with fresh brioche and kumquat jam. This was followed by Pan-fried fillet of Roe deer and Conference pear tarte tatin
Mark also gives a demo of how to skin and joint a hare and then make ragout of hare.
Just in case you don’t believe how good the meal was, read about it here first hand from Slow Food.

9 October 2007

Mark is the judge of the restaurant magazine “Game Chef of the Year” awards.

2 October 2007

Mark is a judge of the game section of the “Pubchef of the Year” awards.

18 July 2007

Mark goes lamping with Selena Masson of the Shooting Times. Check out the blog entries

13 July 2007

Game for Everything wins the much admired and prestigious prize of the Institute of Director's “Young Entrepreneur of the Year.” Mark is very surprised and says, "I am thrilled and a little surprised to win such an important award. I am very excited about talking at the Institute of Directors dinner early next year"

29 June 2007

Mark is invited to star alongside Tom Parker-Bowles to discuss the merits of eating roe deer and the benefits of street markets to the local economy. You can even see him in action doing a cooking demonstration at the White Cross Street Market. We are hoping to be doing more work with Optomen to get more game on television.

22 May 2007

20 May 2007

Game for Everything is commissioned to do the catering for an event hosted by Dymock Brett at the trendy London jazz club The Vortex. Mark even gets on the stage and does the auction. We wish him luck as he raises money for shelter by cycling to Paris.

19 May 2007

Game for Everything does our first wedding, catering for 40 people, seven courses on just a two-ring Aga.

16 May 2007

Mark gives a speech on "Buying Locally and Selling Nationally." He is asked to talk about game: its cooking, marketing and purchase patterns. It was a real honour to be invited to speak, the reaction from the audience was very positive and some important consulting work is now under discussion.

Trout and Salmon publishes a light hearted article about our game pies being the reason for my father's salmon fishing success.

Mark sells at Pepper Harrow Point-to-Point, which is a great success. Despite the rain we will be back there next year!

Mark acts as a consultant for North One, skinning rabbits and butchering them for the Hairy Bikers who were appearing on Fifth Gear as they were doing a piece on road kill rabbit burgers.

April 2007

Mark Gilchrist holds a cooking theatre for the Sandringham Craft Fair, demonstrating game cooking and basic butchery.

Mark hosts his own cooking theatre at the South East game fair at Erridge park, cooking a wood pigeon risotto and other seasonal rabbit dishes, the video of which is available on our website.

March 2007

Mark prepares an evening of air-dried duck matched with wines hosted by mackenade Fine Foods - Great fun had by all and the evening declared a great success.

Mark Gilchrist gets in contact with Harriet Jenkins, a contestant from Master Chef, to offer her some practical experience in game processing, butchery and cooking.

Launch of the "Taste of Game Experience", a small evening of canapes at Festival Fine Wine in Brighton. The evening was a roaring success and more are planned for the future.

There is an article about Game for Everything in Food and Travel magazine.

Game for Everything is invited to lunch by the Lord Lieutenant to meet HRH Prince Charles.

Mark does a cooking demonstration at the Kent Game Fair, Harriet Jenkins comes on the cooking theatre to help Mark. She also cooks as a sous chef on the stand.

February 2007

An article Mark has written is published in Juno Life magazine, titled “Game for Romance.” The article describes why game is prime food for impressing a valentine.

Potted wood pigeon is on UK TV food on the Good Food Live program.

Mark cooks for Apple Computers in central London - the food was described as sensational.

Tom Parker-Bowles writes an article on Mark's pigeon and pheasant pie.

Incredabull Ideas talent agency invites Mark for a meeting to discuss possible ideas for a television show.

January 2007

Mark is approached by Wall-to-Wall television to have a meeting to potentially discuss making a TV program.

Mark cooks for a city-based firm at an event with a guest commenting, "the dining experience was more memorable than eating at the Fat Duck at Bray!" This was in reference to Menu 1.

Tom Parker-Bowles rings up for a chat about game while researching for an article about wood pigeon

December 2006

Mail order starts and proves to be a roaring success with pies sent all over the country, which are enjoyed from Inverness to Devon

November 2006

On London radio, Jaketta Oliver’s show

Featured on stage, BBC good food show, food lover's stage

Oz Clarke says ,"Try the best game pie you'll ever eat."

Featured in metro as part of the BBC Good Food Show

Featured in the Evening Standard

Winner of “Most Promising Business Start-up,” Kent Foundation Awards

Game for Everything attends the Euro Fair in Canterbury,  with a fantastic response a really fantastic food event

Cooking demonstration at Mackenade Fine Foods

September 2006

Featured in an article about the website in the Sunday Telegraph

August 2006

On John Warnet’s radio show, BBC Radio Kent, to talk about grouse: cooking the birds and the impact of the Stronglyosis outbreak 

July 2006      

Cooking demo for 3 days at the CLA Game Fair, around 5000 canapés of game served, game dealer sells out of game

June 06

Start filming for the DVD “Game For Everything,” Volume 1

November 05

Getting very busy!

October 05

The builders leave, clearing starts and the ovens get switched on.