The Wild Gourmets

[robkb]

This starts next Tuesday night on Channel 4 (after Jamie Oliver):

"The Wild Gourmets

In the first episode of a six-part series, award-winning cook Thomasina Miers and adventurer Guy Grieve set off on a nationwide culinary adventure through Britain's most picturesque landscapes in search of the best wild food. Their aim is to turn the seasonal food they hunt and gather into mouth-watering feasts."

Sounds like enjoyable fun for all the budding foragers out there!

Cheers,
Rob ;)

ps. There's also a book (quelle surprise!) which I bought yesterday and it's very good...

[robkb]

[Si D]

Just noticed this in my TV listings - looks good.
Seems Ray Mears has started a trend!

[Trixiebelle]

That looks good Rob  ;D

Not sure about Ray Mears SiD! I found/find him extremely irritating!

[OllieC]

Not sure about Ray Mears SiD! I found/find him extremely irritating!

He went to Australia to work out what we used to eat. Err, we lived beside beaches. There were shellfish and seaweed available all year round. Now, let's think about what we might have eaten. Shame 'cos I like him normally.

This looks good though... let's see.

[Si D]

Not sure about Ray Mears SiD! I found/find him extremely irritating!

He went to Australia to work out what we used to eat. Err, we lived beside beaches. There were shellfish and seaweed available all year round. Now, let's think about what we might have eaten. Shame 'cos I like him normally.

To be fair to him, that's not quite why he was there.  He went to Australia to help demonstrate a mostly Hunter-Gatherer people's attitude to both the food they eat and the ways in which they acquire it.

Traditionally, archaeological study of Britain's Mesolithic people was mostly based on a functionalist approach: the practicalities of acquiring food, and on a view that saw the landscape as an inert backdrop which was thought of only in terms of the resources it offered.  With the advent of the post-processual movement among Mesolithic prehistorians there is a much greater emphasis on how people think their worlds.  Food is not just something that you stick in your mouth when you are hungry, it is rather a way of expressing identity,  status and interacting with the world.  Anthropological analogy can help put flesh onto the bones of the archaeological record.

[Froglegs]

Well did anybody watch it, apart from the killing of the snail for bait bit  ::), i don't think it was much to shout about. But will watch the next one on the off chance it's the wench's turn to show her bum!!!. :P    :-[   ;D

[Doris_Pinks]

Hahaha Frogslegs, I am hoping tis his turn every week! ;)

The snail was a bit stomach churning, but it gave my OH ideas about the pidgeons in the garden!

Found it more entertaining than Jamie, who's programme I unusually am finding quite uninspiring and irritating! :'(

Will watch it again next week. ;D

[robkb]

Well, I quite enjoyed it but it's nothing Hugh Fearlessly-Eatsitall didn't do better ten years ago.

Cheers,
Rob ;)

ps. agree with Froglegs - a bit of equality in the bum-baring department would be nice...

[kitten]

Oh blimey, i forgot about this, and now you're telling me there was naked flesh to be seen?  :o

Will try and catch it next week - i thought it looked quite good  :-\

[OllieC]

Just a blokes hairy fat 4rse, I'm afraid. Like froglegs, I'm holding out for some equality.  ;D

[Froglegs]

I liked the gizmo for attracting pigeons,had a look at the cat and yes i think it could be easily modified(No letters please) into contraption to scare them off ya greens. ;D

[Si D]

It were OK, especially as it had the delectable Tommi in it, but as RobKB says, nothing that Hugh Furry Wherewithall or Ray Mears hasn't done already. 

[isbister]

Ray Mears is the only person who can return from the wilderness fatter than when he went in - and now I suppose we'll have hordes of 4x4 driving, wicker basket carrying gourmands from Kensington tramping all over the countryside picking everythging in sight.

[OllieC]

Ray Mears is the only person who can return from the wilderness fatter than when he went in -

Hahahahaha!!!! Thanks isbister - made me laugh out loud!  ;D

[Heldi]

I sort 've slightly noticed he got his bum out again. What was the bucket of cold water for really eh?eh? eh?  :o

[Lauren S]

Hubby commented on the *Bum Out* scene. What the heck was THAT all about?  ???
As for foraging in someones Victorian walled garden is hardly playing by the rules.  ::)
I'm afraid I hit the channel changer...Click

Lauren  : ;)

[Tin Shed]

I think *bum out* = back to nature and all that. Give me a Victorian Walled garden any day!!!!!!!!!

[Heldi]

 You just wouldn't find Ray Mears in the wild with a handy basket of herbs whilst getting his kit off at every opportunity would you.  He whips any old bit of bark up into something delicious and gets his mate to test it.  8)  :)  :)

[Si D]

Initially I was expecting it to be a "how to get good British wild food for free" type thing.  But, as has been pointed out, the walled garden bit was hardly keeping with this.  Indeed, I bet the permission to shoot pheasant in that wood cost a fair bit too!  I mean, if that's the tack that they are following why don't they just go to the nearest field and pull a few potatoes up?

As for the good British seasonal food lark - when exactly is the season for peppers and chilis grown without the aid of a season-altering glass house?