Cook on the Wild Side 2

Record ID: 216325
  • Title: Cook on the Wild Side 2
  • Date: 13th March 1997
  • Summary: Intrepid wild foodie, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, has traded in his eccentric Landrover kitchen for a more sedate form of transport - the equally eccentric Bain Marie. Half canal barge, half tugboat mainly kitchen this vessel is his home for a waterborne investigation of Britain's wild larder in springtime.
  • Description:The first episode finds him desperately searching among the chilly frosts of March for some hopeful (and edible) signs that spring is on the way. An encounter with a young coppicer brings a ray of hope when Hugh is shown how to tap the silver birch and make sap into wine. Protein comes courtesy of Steve Warn, a resourceful Oxford waterman, who shows Hugh how to catch crayfish, and Chris Smith, one of the last masters of the dying art of long netting for hares. One hare, of the Mad March variety no doubt, is daft enough to end up in Hugh's net, jugged to an early grave with lashings of elderberry wine
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: KEO Films
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Keo Films Ltd.
  • Programme Episode:1
  • Transmission Date:13/03/1997
  • Decade: 1990s
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