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February 6, 2008 at 6:03 pm · Filed under Books + Media, Generally speaking..., overheard, whiskey and whisky, Wild Game, worth trying once and tagged: hunting, Lords and Ladies, Picholine, Scotland, shooting, spaniels, Terrance Brennan, travel
This week at Picholine, chef Terrance Brennan will be cooking up the wild mallard ducks and pheasants he and his hunting party shot on the last day of shooting season — with the help of some hardy spaniels — during a recent hunting trip in the Fife region of Scotland. The trip, organized by Andrew Hamilton of Scottish Wild Harvest, was a success despite driving rain and winds that closed several roads in the region. The happy hunting grounds? Birkhill estate, a 2,000-acre beauty (with 700 acres of rolling woodlands) owned by the Earl and Countess of Dundee. There, Terrance and Andrew met up with a group of hunters from Holland who were not only crack shots but dressed the part, all natty tweeds, ties, and green wool britches called plus-fours. The birds, taken under the guidance of veteran gamekeepers (in other words, fairly) were delivered fresh to Picholine over the weekend. Chef Brennan will cook these 10 mallard ducks and 10 pheasants up this week, so hungry game bird lovers might want to make a rezzo on the double.
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