- Title: Cook on the Wild Side 2
- Date: 20th 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:Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall continues his waterborne investigation of Britain's wild larder and arrives at the Severn estuary in Gloucestershire in time for one of the great seasonal aquatic harvests - the elver migration. Local elverman, Hartley Everett, helps Hugh to a traditional West Country elver and bacon fry up, the price of these tiny wrigglers (£120 a kilo) notwithstanding. After an interlude exploring the hedgerow's importance to 15th Century pilgrims, both for food and medicine, Hugh is back on the protein trail in the Midlands. His quarry is the extraordinary zander, an alien predator currently causing havoc in the Birmingham canal system Hugh reduces the population somewhat, and the lucky ones get salted and smoked up the chimney of the Bain Marie.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: KEO Films
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Keo Films Ltd.
- Programme Episode:2
- Transmission Date:20/03/1997
- Decade: 1990s