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''Wild Food Documentary'' is a
documentary television series hosted by
Ray Mears
Raymond Paul Mears (born 7 February 1964) is a British woodsman, instructor, businessman, author and TV presenter. His TV appearances cover bushcraft and survival techniques. He is best known for the TV series '' Ray Mears' Bushcraft'', '' Ra ...
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in United Kingdom, it is also shown on
Discovery Channel in the United States, Canada, India, Italy,
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and Russia. The show was first broadcast with an episode set in Australia and ended with "Woodland". The theme tune is not unlike the one heard in ''
World of Survival''.
In ''Wild Food Documentary'', Ray presents an informative guide to cookery, travelling across the world to demonstrate traditional cooking skills and cuisine.
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
The witchetty grub (also spelled witchety grub or witjuti grub) is a term used in Australia for the large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths. In particular, it applies to the larvae of the cossid moth ''Endoxyla leucomochla'', which fee ...
, a huge maggot that lives in the roots of the
witchetty bush.
#"Coast": Ray finds out just what
Britain
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'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 from today, as Britain was yet to become an island.
#"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
Spearfishing is a method of fishing that involves impaling the fish with a straight pointed object such as a spear, gig or harpoon. It has been deployed in artisanal fishing throughout the world for millennia. Early civilisations were familia ...
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#"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.
#"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 in a
midden pit which date back to the Stone Age.
See also
*
Ray Mears
Raymond Paul Mears (born 7 February 1964) is a British woodsman, instructor, businessman, author and TV presenter. His TV appearances cover bushcraft and survival techniques. He is best known for the TV series '' Ray Mears' Bushcraft'', '' Ra ...
*''
World of Survival''
*''
Extreme Survival''
*''
Ray Mears' Bushcraft''
*''
Ray Mears Goes Walkabout''
References
External links
RayMears.com*
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{{Ray Mears
2007 British television series debuts
2007 British television series endings
BBC television documentaries
Works about survival skills