Hairy Bikers tour the artisan food producers of Ayrshire and get bellies rumbling

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The finest of Ayrshire produce had bellies rumbling across the country as three local firms featured in a new series of top cooking show The Hairy Bikers on Wednesday.Troon’s Spes Bona Superior Seafood, venison farm Whitehill Farm in Coylton and Ayr’s Blackthorn Salt shared the screen with celebrity chef duo Si King and Dave Myers in their new BBC Two series The Hairy Bikers Go Local.Si and Dave were in Scotland for the second episode of the series where they visited a Glasgow street food café, Julie’s Kopitiam, and travelled across the west coast to find local suppliers that café owner Julie Lin could work with to produce her signature Scottish Malaysian fusion dishes.The first stop on the tour of Ayrshire was to Troon to meet Spes Bona’s Donald and Robin Gibson, who are the sixth generation of their family to take to the Clyde to catch fresh seafood.

Dad-of-three skipper Donald, who has worked in the industry for over 30 years, told Ayrshire Live all about the filming experience, which you can read here.Next stop on the tour was to Whitehill Farm, run by husband and wife Suryaveer and Bonita Rathore, who swapped the busy city living of Dubai and India for the serene Ayrshire countryside to farm their pure Scottish bloodline of red deer.Mum-of-two Bonita, 49, said they were shocked to get the call to feature on the show.“When the producer phoned we were like ‘Really?!

Alright!’,” she said.“We obviously didn’t expect this to happen. They were supposed to be here for about two hours and they were in literally the whole day.“They arrived on EVs - the electric bikes - and my husband likes bikes as he has a BMW bike, so he was showing off his - basically because his makes a sound whereas the EVs are pretty silent, and the