Meet the chefs of 2024

Rob owns Forage and Field, based in rural Lancashire. He is a forager and a chef with a love for the wild and British seasonal produce. He aims to inspire others to search for a closer connection to the food they consume through wild, game and foraged food, and in turn a closer connection to the land that provides it.

Time slot: Sunday 10:30

Greg is the Development Chef at Skyes House Farm, Wetherby. Greg’s main role at Sykes is to build and run a state-of-the-art, on site demo kitchen. Greg develops new products supports professional chefs in ensuring that their menus are perfection!  Greg also hosts the Chef Table events, delivers cooking demos and runs butchery skill masterclasses.

Time slot: Sunday 12:30

Owner of Pakefield Ferrets, Simon has written countless books, produced The Ferret Man DVDs and is arguably the country’s leading ferreting and rabbit expert, giving popular butchery and ferreting demonstrations nationwide. (Read more about Simon Whitehead here.)

Time slot: Saturday 2:30

Owner and Founder of Game and Flames,  Cai is an experienced hunter and passionate cook, now runs courses throughout the year using rabbit, pigeon, trout,  pheasant, partridge, duck,  venison  squirrel and even wild boar. Cai also appears regularly on Field Sports Channel TV, the UK’s biggest online hunting channel.

Time slot: Sunday 2:30

Lucy Pattinson runs The Fodderation – a private chef business specialising in ‘Food, Fire and Fieldsports’.

She has more recently launched ‘Fodder and Farm’ with business partner Kat Goldin. Fodder and Farm is a unique event space and dining experience on a regenerative farm at the edge of the Trossachs National Park. It celebrates the journey of food from farm, field and forest to fork.

Goat Rodeo Goods, more recently launched as a sister company, produces small batch pickles, preserves, seasoning and other culinary delights. The products change with the seasons and are made with things grown or foraged,  often with excess produce from the market garden and surplus from local farmers that would have been food waste.

Time slot: Saturday 12:30 & Sunday 1:30

Lionel Strub is the Chef/Patron of the C18th Clarendon Hotel & Restaurant in Hebden near Grassington. Sharing his passion for great food and hospitality and celebrating the very best of fresh local produce resulted in the Clarendon winning the Champion of Champions category at the Eat Game Awards 2023.

Time slot: Saturday 11:30 & 1:30