Death, Blood Sacrifice, And Stew – Still Not Enough To Pull England Through

In a bloom-filled cottage garden, a rabbit was sacrificed in honour of the England game, in a real-life enactment of Beatrix Potter's little-known tale of Peter Rabbit's Father. The rabbit was skinned, gutted, cooked up and served just before the team played their first World Cup Game in the jungle city of Manaus. Each step was photographed and documented as part of the World Cup of Food challenge to make Epic Recipes in Pictures ('reppics') for every country in the World Cup. In the England submission we cook up epic game for the beautiful game.

”Now, my dears,’ said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, ‘you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.’

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I quickly found the difference between cooking in the city and rural gourmet life was about the hunt, the scent of blood and deadly revenge, all set within the quaintest setting of a bloom-filled English cottage kitchen garden.

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This rabbit, repeating the tragic fate of Peter Rabbit’s Father, munched on one two many lettuces, and this morning ‘he had an accident’, his luck ran out, just as recounted by Beatrix Potter, surely one of the great cultural provocateurs of her time.

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Rural foodies get their perks; fresh meat hops onto your doorstep, and though you may regret the loss of your prize lettuce, at least that work has now turned into a plate of meat (though be warned: rabbit meat has no vitamins and without the cottage garden supplements you wouldn’t last long either).

If it’s true that city folk really don’t know where food (especially meat) comes from, then village folk can show the way, in skinning, disemboweling and jointing (click here for far more gruesome pictures).

Peter Rabbit has a close shave with his father's own murderer, in Beatrix Potter's 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'

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A huge thank you to ‘Mr and Mrs McGregor’ who hunted and gathered this wonderful meal while the England team fought it out in the rainforest city, losing 2:1 to the jungle-fearless Italians in Manaus.

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You too can make the Rabbit and Port Stew following the 14 step, 45 minute Epic Recipe in Pictures (reppic) here.

The World Cup of Food is a challenge to create step-by-step picture recipes of epic food from every country in the World Cup.

reppic - Epic Recipes in Pictures - is a big idea from Cultural Provocateur, developed to solve the problem of the limited access to epic food in England.

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