Hunter Gather Cook Handbook: Adventures in Wild Food

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Hunter Gather Cook Handbook combines accessible and inspirational instruction for foraging, game & fire cookery with over 40 recipes for the finest wild food. This new gift edition aims to set the reader on a fulfilling, lifelong path of culinary adventures and food DIY, and inspire them to embrace the lifestyle that surrounds the 21st-century hunter-gatherer. With clear guides to foraging wild plants and fungi, and extensive information on deer, rabbit, pheasant, partridge, wood pigeon and duck, including hunting and butchery, it makes wild food accessible and aims to take away any sense of trepidation. For readers that already consider themselves well versed in the ways of the 21st-century hunter-gatherer, it hopes to extend their culinary repertoire, and take their experimentation and enjoyment to the next level. . Includes methods of making and cooking with fire, including clay ovens and Swedish log candles. . Illustrated butchery guides, recipes for deer, rabbit, pigeon, partridge, pheasant and duck . Advice on foraging, wild plant and mushroom identification guides, recipes for sauces, sides and basics AUTHOR: Nick Weston specialized in Hunter-gatherer Studies and the Mesolithic as part of his Archaeology degree. He has written for numerous publications and set up a successful company, Hunter Gather Cook, which is a school for foraging, butchery, cooking, and bushcraft. Nick lives in Lewes, UK. SELLING POINTS: . Wild plant and mushroom identification guides, recipes for sauces, sides and basics . Illustrated butchery guides, recipes for deer, rabbit, pigeon, partridge, pheasant and duck, advice on foraging . Includes methods of making and cooking with fire, including clay ovens and Swedish log candles . Written by well-known wild food chef Nick Weston with photographs by award-winning photographer David Loftus . Over 40 recipes with extensive information on foraging, game and fire cookery a growing trend 85 colour photographs

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"Hunter Gather Cook (HGC) is a mission statement. Author Nick Weston has spent the past decade on a wild food adventure, teaching the HGC philosophy. His new book charts just what that means. Weston stalks and shoots for the pot but it is Weston stalks and shoots for the pot but it is his advocacy of wild food and game, his passion to share that and the way in which he does this that makes this such an exciting new book."

Author Bio

Nick Weston specialised in Hunter-gatherer Studies and the Mesolithic as part of his Archaeology degree. On completion, he was selected by Channel 4 to be the Survival Expert for Shipwrecked, which involved spending three months in the Cook Islands teaching the islanders how to build shelters, hunt and gather food. When he returned, he built a treehouse and lived off the land for six months. A book about his experiences, The Treehouse Diaries, was published in 2010. Since then, he has written for numerous publications and set up a successful company, Hunter Gather Cook, which is a school for foraging, butchery, cooking and bushcraft. He lives in East Sussex, UK.