Packington Free Range Features on Channel 4s Drop Down Menu Packington Free Ranges chicken has featured on Channel

4s Drop Down Menu, with far m owner Alec Mercer starring live in the studio. Nottingham, UK, November 29, 2011 -- Channel 4 foods latest offering is Drop Down Menu, which features local food producers alongside celebrity chefs and guests, and sees the audience vote on which dish will be cooked. Packington Free Range (http://www.packingtonfreerange.co.uk ) joint owner Alec Mercer featured live on the shows 13th episode, hosted by Matt Tebbutt and Gizzi Erskine with Radio1s Dave Vitty plus celebrity chefs Paul Rankin and Jun Tanaka. The programme first showed Alec at Packington Free Range talking the farms high w elfare standards, explaining, I felt that the consumers were getting concerned ab out where their food was coming from, so as a result I decided to set up a very transparent chicken farm of the highest welfare. Alec then appeared live in the studio where the audience were asked to choose be tween three dishes made with Packington Free Range Chicken (http://www.packingto nfreerange.co.uk/healthy-pigs-poultry/free-range-chicken/ ): Chicken Sweetcorn a nd Clam Casserole, Roast Chicken with Winter Vegetable Broth and Lemon Chicken P aillard as host Gizzi Erskine praised the beautiful chickens produced at Packingto n Free Range. The audiences choice of Chicken Paillard (http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/t v-show-recipes/drop-down-menu-recipes/lemon-chicken-paillard-with-bulgar-wheat-s alad-recipe ) was then skilfully prepared and cooked by chef Jun Tanaka, who but terflied the free range chicken and coated it in a marinade of lemon confit with honey, chilli and garlic before cooking it on a hot griddle and serving with a bulgar wheat salad. Talking about his appearance on the show, Alec says To have respected chefs using our product not only convinces me that what Im doing is right, but youre getting recognition from people who are very knowledgeable and thats hugely rewarding He adds Appearing on the show was a fantastic experience. The hosts and other gue sts were brilliant and to get such positive feedback about the produce we feel s o strongly about makes it all worthwhile. Alec also had the chance to talk about the pork farming side of the business, ru n by his brother Rob, to which host Matt Tebbutt replied We should get your broth er on to try his pig one day.... Watch this space! About Packington Free Range: Packington Free Range, based in Staffordshire, is a farm with a traditional fami ly heritage spanning four generations. As well as a commitment to pork and poult ry of the highest quality, Packingtons award-winning animal welfare ethos is supp orted and accredited by the RSPCA. Packington Free Ranges pork and poultry are Fr ee Range in the truest sense of the word, with a firm belief that happy, healthy animals will produce the best meat. Press Contact: Carrie Eames Cream Communications and Marketing Ltd 1 Howard Street Nottingham, NG5 4GE 0845 3889584 carrie@creamcommunications.co.uk

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