WIRRAL butchers Edge and Son are holding a street party tomorrow (Saturday May 10) to celebrate winning top prize in what celebrity cook Jamie Oliver described as the Oscars of the Food World.
From 10am until 2pm there shop in New Ferry will be hosting a party, with a jazz band adding a musical high as free Edge's bangers are dished out.
The shop has won the Best Local Retailer Prize in the National 2014 Food and Farming Awards, beating off competition from food businesses across the UK.
Callum Edge
Judge Fiona Beckett said: “We had so many entries for butchers but what made Edge & Son stand out was the fact that they concerned themselves with every stage of the process. Persuading local farmers to stock rare breeds, stipulating what kind of food and grazing they should have – they are big fans of grass-fed cattle - and when they should be slaughtered.
“For a small butchers they’re astonishingly hi-tech – the ageing room has a state of the art air filtration system. We saw a superb side of beef, the flesh dark, ruby red, a treat for one of the many restaurants the business supplies. Callum stresses they’re not all about expensive cuts though, so that good meat doesn’t become elitist.”
The shop in New Ferry was established by the family in 1844, still using the same recipe for their own sausages. The 1844 Sausage is a simple but spectacularly good breakfast sausage, commented the judges.
The awards is held by the popular BBC Radio 4 Food programme.
