MELROSE AND MORGAN: MADE IN CHALK FARM

Local, good quality food is becoming an increasing priority for anyone who cares about what they eat. To celebrate Urban Food Fortnight and British Food Fortnight, Primrose Hill grocer Melrose and Morgan is celebrating its local suppliers and like-minded craft producers with a ‘London Artisans’ campaign.

Melrose and Morgan are rightly proud of the fact that alongside products made by excellent small producers, over half the food it sells is hand-made in small batches in their kitchens in Chalk Farm.

The first event in the London Artisans series was a ‘Weekend Brunch to Lunch’ tasting, hosted by head chef Mauro Mateus, and as I tucked in to samples of weekend food suggestions, he talked me though the recipes and ingredients. Click on the gallery below to find out more…

Find out more about the London Artisans campaign here:
http://www.melroseandmorgan.com/news/notices

Melrose and Morgan head chef Mauro Mateus worked under Marco Pierre White before beginning his career at Melrose and Morgan. He joined the Primrose hill grocer as a salad chef back in 2010, before working his way up to the head chef position, alongside taking a degree in International Culinary Arts.

Buttermilk, chili, thyme and seasalt crackers had the perfect combination of slight flakiness and crunch, and were paired beautifully with a cumin-heavy hummous.

cracked wheat salad with peas and baked halloumi.

wild rice salad with barley, toasted almonds, mint, parcel and goats’ cheese

The Goodness Bar was a nutty, wholesome snack sweetened not with sugar but with brown rice syrup

Twenty-eight year-old Mauro declared “I love the product and everything about it!”

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