Wild Food
Encyclopedia
Wild Food is a documentary
television series hosted by Ray Mears
. The series airs on the BBC
in United Kingdom
, it is also shown on Discovery Channel
in the United States
, Canada
, India
, Italy
, Brazil
, New Zealand
, Australia
, Norway
, Sweden
, The Netherlands 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, Ray presents an informative guide to cookery, travelling across the world to demonstrate traditional cooking skills and cuisine.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
television series hosted by Ray Mears
Ray Mears
Raymond Paul "Ray" Mears is an English woodsman, instructor, author and TV presenter. His TV appearances cover bushcraft and survival techniques, and he is best known for the TV series Ray Mears' Bushcraft, Ray Mears' World of Survival, Extreme Survival, Survival with Ray Mears, Wild Britain with...
. The series airs on the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
in United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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, it is also shown on Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
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in the United States
United States
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, Canada
Canada
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, India
India
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, Italy
Italy
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, Brazil
Brazil
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, New Zealand
New Zealand
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, Australia
Australia
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, Norway
Norway
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, Sweden
Sweden
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, The Netherlands and Russia
Russia
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. The show was first broadcast with an episode set in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and ended with "Woodland". The theme tune is not unlike the one heard in World of Survival
World of Survival
Ray Mears' World of Survival is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it is also shown on Discovery Channel in the United States, Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands and Russia...
.
In Wild Food, Ray presents an informative guide to cookery, travelling across the world to demonstrate traditional cooking skills and cuisine.
Episodes
- "AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
": Ray travels to the other side of the planet to hear from Australian AboriginalsIndigenous AustraliansIndigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....
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 grubWitchetty grubThe witchetty grub is a term used in Australia for the large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths...
, a huge maggot that lives in the roots of the witchetty bush. - "Coast": Ray finds out just what BritainGreat BritainGreat Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
's coast had to offer our ancestors, as he continues to explore the wild food that tickled the taste buds of Stone AgeStone AgeThe Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period, lasting about 2.5 million years , during which humans and their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporary genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus, widely used exclusively stone as their hard material in the...
man. The coastline of Stone AgeStone AgeThe Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period, lasting about 2.5 million years , during which humans and their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporary genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus, widely used exclusively stone as their hard material in the...
Britain was rather different than it is today, as Britain was yet to become an island. - "Wetlands": Ray and Professor Gordon HillmanGordon HillmanProfessor Gordon Hillman B.Sc is Honorary Visiting Professor in Archaeobotany at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ....
, 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. - "Summer Harvest": Summer HarvestHarvestHarvest is the process of gathering mature crops from the fields. Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulse for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle, or reaper...
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, AutumnAutumnAutumn is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter usually in September or March when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier....
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.
See also
- Ray MearsRay MearsRaymond Paul "Ray" Mears is an English woodsman, instructor, author and TV presenter. His TV appearances cover bushcraft and survival techniques, and he is best known for the TV series Ray Mears' Bushcraft, Ray Mears' World of Survival, Extreme Survival, Survival with Ray Mears, Wild Britain with...
- World of SurvivalWorld of SurvivalRay Mears' World of Survival is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it is also shown on Discovery Channel in the United States, Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands and Russia...
- Extreme SurvivalExtreme SurvivalExtreme Survival is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it is also shown on Discovery Channel in the United States, Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Russia, where he...
- Ray Mears' BushcraftRay Mears' BushcraftBushcraft is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it also shown on Discovery Channel in the United States, Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Romania and Russia...
- Ray Mears Goes WalkaboutRay Mears Goes WalkaboutRay Mears Goes Walkabout is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears, showing Mears down under in Australia. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it is also shown on Discovery Channel in the Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands,...