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From 'YOU' magazine, Mail on Sunday 14/11/99
David Lidgate (of the Holland Park Carnivores' Mecca) commenting that the winner Welsh Hook Meat Centre's Boned and Rolled Loin of Pork - "is right up there with the best you can buy in the country"
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THE WEEKEND REVIEW - The Independent 26/1/02
Steak on a Plate
................and Emrys Davies at the Welsh Hook Meat Centre in Pembrokeshire, whose beef was highly commended at last year's organic food awards. Davies turned organic 14 years ago. He admits: "It has been a slow hard grind but it has taken off in the last three to four years." Now he and neighbouring organic farmers are selling steak, hung for 17 to 21 days, as fast as they can produce it, to (among others) Woods Brasserie in Cardiff, Hakkasan in London, mail-order customers, and a handful of shops such as Lidgates's in Holland Park and Planet Organic. Those who produce the best steak have nothing to beef about.
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From: The Living Earth No 205 Jan- Mar 2000
Emrys Davies put 50 years of butchering experience into supervising the Boned and Rolled Loin of Pork that won Welsh Hook meat the fresh Meat award........
They supply organic meat to various south-east businesses including The Savoy Hotel and Champneys Health Farm. Emrys puts their success down to a very high hygiene standard, and the meat cutting plant scores very highly in their statutory inspections.
When local farmers send their animals to the near by abbattoir in Trgaron, Welsh Hook sends someone to watch over their slaughter, and a vet comes to the plant once a week.
A very pleased Emrys Davies also attributes their success to being meat people before they were organic. He added that Welsh Hook also produces beef, lamb and poultry too. " In fact we have our own shop, and produce our own lamband beef on land rented from a farmer in Sandy Haven," he said.
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From the Farming Weekly 22/2/02
UK ORGANIC FOOD, IN INDIAN STYLE
Applying a city brain to the curry market has paid dividends to one entrepreneur
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For Lamb he went to Wales because he wanted very lean meat - a good curry must not be fatty. But he came across his present supplier literally in a London street. "I was in a shop called Simply Organic. When I came out I saw this red van with the words Welsh Hook on the side of it and they key words Welsh Lamb. They are in Pembrokeshire and I wrote their phone number down and rang them up." he explains "I went down there and tasted their lamb, it was fantastic, beautiful. Ive always preferred Welsh Lamb to eat. Now they supply our lamb."
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Dear Friends,
What a pleasure to eat such lovely meat!
Thank You, Vida Henning
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