Road Kill Chefs: The Culinary Creators of the Highway Supermarket

Roadkill Café by John Flynn
Don’t touch that brake, don’t turn that wheel,
The life you save could be our next meal.
Four-legged critters make tasty dinners,
Went something splatters, we’ll make a platter.

CHO: At the Road Kill Cafe,
We’ll do it up your way.
We’ll cook it fresh right from your grill to ours,
Just scrape it off the tire and we’ll toss it on the fire.
Come chew the fat at the Road Kill Cafe.

Doesn’t that sound appealing? Certain chefs seem to think so.

People have been cooking and eating road kill for longer than we are probably aware of but in today’s world where food is processed before cooking, road kill chefs find themselves in the ewww mixture.

Fergus Drennan is most commonly known as the Roadkill Chef in Europe. He is a self proclaimed vegetarian that only eats meat if it has been killed on the road by someone else.

The law prohibits him, and anyone else for that matter, from taking out wild animals with automobiles, collecting them and eating them. However, the law does allow people to collect animals that have been hit by someone else and eat them.

Fergus Drennan is what is known as a forager, someone who roams the land collecting dead carcasses for consumption. He has supplied chefs with road kill ingredients for restaurants like London’s The Ivy and Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen.

Drennan says his favorite roadside dish consists of roast pheasant with Chinese dumplings, wild veggies with seasoned vinegar, soy sauce and garlic. Yummy.

One of Fergus Drennan’s comrades and fellow forager is the famous chef once known as The Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver.

Jamie Oliver launched a new show on the BBC called the Roadkill Café where he will…Read the rest

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Roadkill Cooking

Road kill scavenger camps consist of a wide variety of types of people. Some are simply victims of economics while others are activists with a point to prove. Consumers of road kill are drawn to roadways and highways in search of edible nutrition for several very different reasons.

1. Road kill is a free source of food. There are no government issued taxes or fees for collecting road kill. 2. The animals typically consumed by road kill scavengers are considered to be high in vitamins and proteins. Some wild meats are lean meat very little saturated fats. 3. Vegans and vegetarians are known to cook and eat road kill food for a once in a while meat treat even though they do not buy, cook or prepare commercial meats. The reason being road kill is drug and chemical free. 4. It’s a way of appreciating the natural balance of the Earth’s life span cycles.

There are activists that have taken to the road kill scavenger lifestyle to prove their point that this is a natural way to recycle life. They have chosen to keep nature’s balance on track by eating the dead, knowing that they also will be consumed by those things living in the earth. There have been those activists that also claim cooking and consuming road kill is showing honorable appreciation for handling the remains of animals brutally killed by man-made automobiles.

Residents in Alaska are allowed to keep the carcass of a road kill accident but only after the State Troopers have had a chance to call local churches first to see if they want the meat. If the church does not want the carcass then it is offered to the next person on the road kill list. After all that if no one wants it you are allowed to drag it home and do whatever you want with it.

Many states such as Texas are ok with people taking home road kill after it has been validated and verified by local authorities. There are some states though that completely prohibits taking road kill home at all.

In 2001 a couple in Oregon petitioned the state to make collecting, cooking and eating road kill carcasses legal. Clausen and Waken told a news reporter from the Bend Bulletin that having dead animal carcasses decomposing on the side of roadways could…Read the rest.

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