A choice of doorstep sandwiches includes a feta and homemade pesto, and a breakfast sandwich (bacon, sausage and free-range egg), all on slabs of local Chough Bakery bread.
Local saltmarsh lamb burgers are made from the farm's own flock, and chickens strutting past the tents provide eggs for big slabs of homemade cake.
And one of those trumpeted macaroni soups is less Hong Kong's Mido Cafe and more an assault on the burgeoning ramen market, in which greyish chicken thigh meatballs, fried egg and a slab of kimchi jostle with lashings of gochujang.
It wasn't bad, but I found myself longing for the genuine article: a rubbery sausage pattie and a circular slab of egg on a gritty English muffin.
We feasted on mashed potato and hard boiled eggs, smothered in thick slabs of melting butter, sprinkled with dried mint and wrapped in a warm flatbread, and tender steamed purple and yellow beetroot that we sprinkled generously with sumac.
A bacon-guided tour through Chops 'N' Catch starts with deviled eggs partnered with miniature slabs of maple-roasted pork belly, followed by bacon-wrapped jumbo sea scallops, a chopped salad with bacon and fried onions, then a bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin (with blue cheese and bacon risotto, for good measure).
And she waged a lifelong battle against wrinkles, experimenting with homemade tinctures made of berries, eggs, sperm--even slabs of raw meat!
In addition to many varieties of raw fish, I tried salmon roe, octopus, egg custard, and, eventually, a slab of cooked meat, slathered in a teriyaki-like brown sauce, perched atop a finger of vinegared rice, and belted with a strip of seaweed.
We pressed slabs of clay into egg boxes and yoghurt pots, then left them to dry so they would take the shape and texture of the container.
(Note to world: may we please stop repeating the same lame cardiologist/cholesterol/heart attack jokes when confronted with huge slabs of beef and/or eggs? Take a Lipitor or something).
