On April 24, 2018, Anna Marie Longo of Terra Pacific coordinated with local distributor/meat purveyor Golden Gate Meats to host an invitation-only special Mountain River venison butchery demonstration and tasting featuring DINZ Executive Chef Graham Brown.

The guests were a range of restaurant owners, their chefs & cooking staff and ‘front of house’ staff; along with caterers, winery chefs, culinary educators, retailers & Golden Gate Meats’ sales representatives.

Take a look at this video of the event:

The objectives of the event were to –

• Inspire chefs and decision makers in the local culinary world to try a product they may not be familiar with

• Promote the ease of availability and the wide range of Mountain River Cervena venison cuts

• Highlight the tender, delicious, healthy and versatile attributes of the product, with particular emphasis on the wide range of value-added cuts available with applications for each season

• Educate the sales teams of the unique features and benefits of the product

• Showcase the provenance of our venison and give ‘behind the farm gate’ insights into the humane and sustainable farming practices that are a cornerstone of the Mountain River Cervena program.

The venue: The Kitchen Collective – an urban cooking club: www.kitchencollective.club

Calling itself an urban cooking club, Kitchen Collective has a focus on promoting the epicurean experience, allowing members to share its fully-stocked stat of the art kitchen.

Some of our attendees –

• Mark Linder, CIA (Culinary Institute of America) Director of Strategic Relationships – Agriculture

• Timothy Bodell, Culinary Director, Francis Ford Coppola Group

• Chiring, Owner/Chef ‘Yak & Yeti restaurant & the Himalayan Sherpa Kitchen, Saint Helena. “I am putting the Osso Buco on my menu”

• Graham Jones, private wine country chef. “I had no idea venison could be so tender and tasty. I can definitely sell this to my clients as a great wine dinner option”

• Jeff, ‘Calmart’ retail meat manager – commenced purchasing meat from Golden Gate Meats and will try venison in the Fall

• Jimi Offenbach, Owner, Golden Gate Meats., “Mountain River is a class act and this was beautifully done. My team definitely needs to be selling more of this product”

Again, we’d like to extend a warm thank you to Anna Marie – who put in a lot of the work that made this a successful event.