Wild Boar
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by admin
via The Times
The animals, however, are destined for the dinner plate, with butchers and restaurateurs reporting a growing demand for the wild game meat. They are breeding rapidly, particularly in Kent, East Sussex, West Dorset, the Forest of Dean, the fringes of Dartmoor and other parts of Devon.
There’s a few sightings of them in West Swindon, of all places (large housing estates).
I’ve had wild boar a couple of times. If you stumble across a butcher selling it, get some. To me, it was like a more earthy, gamey(?) pork, and absolutely delicious.
RSS
Definitely, wild boar is excellent eating. Anywhere on the continent in the autumn the restaurants offer game dishes (la chasse in French, Wild in German). Game birds are more common in this country, but when I lived in Geneva autumn menus included chevreuil (roe deer), sanglier (boar) and venison. The game season made a nice break between the end of summer and the start of Christmas shopping advertisements.