Ray Mears - Wild Food

[Chantal]

There's a new programme starting at 8pm tomorrow night (4 January) on BBC2 which looks quite interesting. He's looking at wild food in England and abroad, going back to stuff that was eaten in the Stone Age. As far as I can see it's vegetation he's interested in and not road kills ( )which I'm never keen on.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Chantal, it does look quite interesting, but don't forget some of us still live a little like that nowadays, never really thought of myself as a stone-age man, although i'm sure some other people might.
Now where did i leave my antler pick.

[Piglet]

Tucked in your deer skin trousers Herby

[jopsy]

i like hugh fernley whittingtingy but the road kill im afraid i have to draw a line at
herby are you the original stig of the dump?
might try and watch that tho i do have some house hunting to be getting on with!

[oldherbaceous]

Piglet there tucked in ready for action as i speak, or write as the case maybe.

Jopsy, who is this Stig of the dump that you talk about.
One more thing Jopsy, if your new house has a huge garden, would you be interested in a hunky gardener to tend your beds.

[Piglet]

I'm already busy Herby!!!!

[Sue]

My hubby went on a Ray Mears course 3-4 years ago now and Ray was working with a Professor of Archo-botany (or something like that anyway) called Gordon. This guy specialises in the history of how native cultures have used plants over the centuries and was a mine of information. He & Ray have been working on the program all this time, so hopefully it will be pretty good.

Happy house hunting Jopsy - looks like Herby is volunteering to be your very own Stig. You'll have to start an extra large compost heap for him to live in

Sue

[oldherbaceous]

I was looking fo Dahlismarie, on the Ray Mears show tonight, but i never saw her.

[Zena]

I watched it (whilst dismantling the Christmas tree). It was really interesting, but what's the fascinating with eating mealey bugs?? Saw enough of that on "I'm a Celebrity....."(I know,trash TV!) Truly disgusting!!

[Tigger]

Good but not excellent. Hope next week's version is excellent.

[Mr Potato Head]

Funnily enough, Gordon was one of Mrs Potato Head's lecturers at University!

Good programme, but felt they'd have been better off interspersing stuff from the Australia trip throughout the rest of the series, rather than dedicating one whole episode to it.

[Carole B.]

I really enjoyed this one,especially the use of the snail shell as a grater,just goes to show how much can be missed on a dig. Oh....we had roadkill casserole last week and very good it was too,no shot in it for a start.

[lizzie]

I found this really interesting and am looking forward to the rest of the series. I'm interested in the history of food so it's right up my street. As for the snail shell grater, it worked better than the bloody thing i've got that cost me a fiver.

Now I know what to do with all those snails on my plot

[oldherbaceous]

I thought the programme was quite good last night, but what always makes me smile, is this romantic notion of how good it would have been, [and i must admit i do fall for this as well].
While in the hard reality of things, it would have been a real nightmare most of the time, especially when there was long periods of very bad weather.

A bit like when we get two inches of snow these days, everything grinds to a halt.

[Jenny Green]

Yes, I liked it better last night too (though only caught the second half). I didn't think they were saying how much better life was rather that the world was so much cleaner - so true! - and that those people could have taught us so much.
I agree life would in reality have been bloomin' hard. I think stone age people generally only lived into their thirties. Which means I would have been long gone!