In a new BBC programme Road Kill Café, viewers will be shown how to forage by the roadside for foxes, squirrels and chickens that have met a sticky end.
Fergus Drennan, a food forager who supplies restaurants including The Ivy and Oliver’s Fifteen, demonstrates how to test animals for rigor mortis. If the death is recent, Drennan promises to create a tasty meal from tarmac to table within 24 hours of bumper impact.
The programme, created for BBC Three by Jamie Oliver’s Fresh One production company, aims to show that fresh fox, hedgehog and badger have a nutritional value that is greater than supermarket meats.
Drennan, 35, describes himself as a “vegetarian who eats roadkill” because “it has not been killed on your behalf”. He invited locals in Sandwich, Kent, to join him on a three-week foraging expedition. The programme concludes with a banquet of food found on beaches, in forest undergrowth and in roadside gutters.
Here you can find recipes for Pan-boiled fox and Pan braised squirrels.
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