wild man, wild food

Fergus Drennan (Wild Man, Wild Food) is a professional forager whose diet consists of about 50% wild food. His website features such delicacies as a recipe for pan fried squirrels. Mmm.

Fergus and some sloes

Intrigued by Fergus's unique view on where to find fine ingredients, our recipe inventors headed off to the Kent coast to meet him and learn more about the unusual foods that are growing on our doorstep.

hunting for seaweed

It was a long day which consisted of foraging for, among other things, seaweed, samphire, sloes, rosehips and seabuckthorn berries.

seabuckthorn berries

Lucy, samphire and seaweed

The day ended with a squirrel-free bonfire on the beach, cooking up all the food that had been foraged. And we returned to Fruit Towers full of slightly odd ideas about what to put in our next smoothie. We'll let you know if we manage to crack a seaweed recipe.

Comments

[Lise]

Here are some other great spirits:

http://kent.nu/video-spela.asp?videoid=142

[Caroline]

Seaweed is supposed to be really good for you, so if you did manage to get it into a nice-tasting drink, that would be ace!

[Chloe]

the squirrel recipe has made me sad. my colleague Tall Sam calls me squirrel, so the ingredients have made my blood run cold.

nice photos though!

[Stephan]

MMmmmm squirrel!

[Seakay]

Sea buckthorn is supposed to be very rich in vitamin C, so if you could find a way of using that it would be great (and good for food miles too!)

[emz]

yum yum i could just drink a seaweed smootie!

[Layla]

Squirrel is very tasty, although it's better to slow cook itas it can be a bit tough. Don't know why more people don't eat it.