Macknade Fine Foods is pleased to announce that its much anticipated butchery is opening on September 17th, just in time for the Faversham Food Festival.
The butchery is to be headed up by Faversham local, Roy Campbell, who will be leading a team of three to bring customers the very best butchery experience around, focusing on provenance, quality and skill. Prior to working at Macknade, Roy owned a catering butchery business, supplying meat to the trade, and before that ran several butchers in South Africa. He was however born in the UK and had his first job in the Lenham Village Shop as an apprentice butcher when he was only 16 years old.
Roy commented, “Opening the new butchery at Macknade is an exciting opportunity for me, as it is taking me back to my roots as a young man, growing up in a village environment where meat was produced locally and sold in the village shops. Where possible, I will be sourcing meat from local farms and suppliers in and around Kent. The butchery will maintain the Macknade ethos, working closely with suppliers and customers to provide them with a great product & service, also sharing skills through butchery demonstrations and classes on preparing and cooking meat.”
The Macknade Butchery is going on the road as part of the Faversham Food Festival, with Roy serving up ‘Peppers at Macknade’ on the sausage trail, which takes place on September 20th. The Peppers sausage is a historical sausage recipe from Peppers Pork Butchers, which traded for many years in East Street, and is being reintroduced by Roy for the trail, and to sell at Macknade going forward.
50 complimentary tickets for the sausage trail will be available at Macknade, exclusively for Macknade Community Cardholders.These will be distributed on a first-come first-serve basis.
