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Abergavenny
Food Festival -
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Huntsham Farm Visit |
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Huntsham Farm -
Pedigree
Meats is
owned
and run by Richard Vaughan and his wife, Rosamund. It specialises in
producing the finest meat from rare pedigree animals – Longhorn beef,
Middle White pork and Ryeland lamb – rather than just beef, pork and
lamb. Huntsham Farm is situated in the beautiful Wye valley and has been
in the
Vaughan
family for nearly four hundred years.
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 Meat
production in the
British Isles
has for many years been driven by economic considerations – the
requirement to produce animals which grow faster but eat less food, and by
an overriding obsession with leanness in meat. The result has been meat
which may look good on the sales counter but which is often tough and
tasteless. Modern beef is usually bright red, has not been hung for any
length of time and has been sourced from any breed of cattle which fits
the requirement for cheap, lean meat.
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 Huntsham
meat has been produced with superior taste and texture as the primary
consideration. It therefore has a higher fat content than most modern
meat, which greatly enhances its taste and succulence. Some people like to
eat the fat, others don’t, but it is important that the meat is cooked
with its fat. Those who don’t like fat should look on it like the
sediment in a good bottle of wine – you don’t drink it but it needs to
be there.
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Richard Vaughan with some
Longhorn Cattle grazing at Huntsham |
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