IT was always going to pip Veganuary for our affections, so welcome back to Goatober, national showcase for the culinary potential of kid meat.
Once again it is organised by James Whetlor (above) of Cabrito Goat Meat, which buys male goats, a waste product of the dairy industry, from farmers to rear for eating.
We caught up with him last year at NQ bar Koffee Pot, where he shared the kitchen with chef Mary Ellen McTague to create a goat-centric four course meal (we loved the Cabrito al disco, below).
She’s obviously a fan; the pair team up again this year at her Chorlton eaterie, The Creameries on Sunday, September 30. The four course format remains with king of supper club hosts Iain Devine, aka The Drunken Butcher, also at the stove for the £40 a head feast.
The ticket will include an arrival drink; almonds fried in goat bacon fat with pink peppercorn salt; goat charcuterie; goat tacos – slow cooked shoulder with sumac, bean puree, pickled red cabbage and goat tartare with tequila and tabasco, pineapple, tabasco and mint salsa and frozen sour cream powder; BBQ goat broth with dumplings; Kansas style smoked goat and cornbread; and roast plum, goat milk yoghurt and honey sherbert, bay and almond.
The Creameries, 406 Wilbraham Rd, Manchester M21 0SD. Sunday, September 30. 7pm-10pm. £40. Buy tickets here.