Wild Food is a documentary television series
hosted by Ray Mears. In Wild Food, Ray presents an informative
guide to cookery, travelling across the world to demonstrate traditional
cooking skills and cuisine.
He also released a book of the same name.
Watch the full episodes below.
He also released a book of the same name.
Watch the full episodes below.
Episodes
"Australia": Ray travels to the other side of the
planet to hear from Australian Aboriginals about what food means to a
hunter-gatherer and the role it plays in their culture as well as their
society. Along with many other discoveries, the trip sees Ray sample that most
iconic of 'bush tucker': the witchetty
grub, a huge maggot that lives in the roots of the witchetty bush.
Watch the full episode below
"Coast": Ray finds out just what Britain's
coast had to offer our ancestors, as he continues to explore the wild food that
tickled the taste buds of Stone Age man. The coastline of Stone Age Britain
was rather different than it is today, as Britain was yet to become an island.
Watch the full episode below
"Wetlands": Ray and Professor
Gordon Hillman, an expert in the use of plants through the ages, look at
the marshes and waterways which our ancestors used for travelling and as an
abundant source of food. Along the way, Ray explains how to take the sting out
of nettles and how to use water lily seeds as a source of carbohydrate. He then
travels to the spectacular Ardeche Gorge in France where he gains special
permission to take to his canoe and demonstrate spear fishing.
Watch the full episode below
"Summer Harvest": Summer Harvest shows
that our ancestors would have had access to a wide variety of plant foods, but
meat would have been the staple in their diet. Ray shows viewers how they would
have cooked a deer in a huge pit and then demonstrates how they would have
preserved the meat by smoking it.
Watch the full episode below
"Woodland": For our ancestors, Autumn would have
been the last chance to gather food before winter stole much of it away. Nuts
are an obvious source of stored energy. Ray travels to the island of Colonsay
in Scotland to investigate the remains of thousands of charred hazelnuts which
date back to the Stone Age.
Watch the full episode below
See also Wild Britain with Ray Mears.
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