I had the pleasure of studying under Gordon for three years at the Institute of Archaeology and he completely caught my (and many other's) imagination and stimulated a love of wild plants and foraging. He was just as lovely as he comes across in this series and is greatly missed. One of the kindest and gentlest people I have ever met and a fount of knowledge
Ray Mears should be more popular. I can't believe anyone thinks Bear Grylls is more interesting that Ray. Ray is a real human being, is sensitive to other people's cultures and does not pit himself against nature. He is intelligent, charming, funny and unpretentious. Him and Gordon have fabulous chemistry in this series and the two of them deliver an immense amount of information in these documentaries. Fabulous work.
Damn wht a piece of art these docs were! WE WANT RAY MEARS BACK!!!!! Theres not ONE show today that compares to the quality of these shows.. good ol times
Some foods that are "revolting" or "too harsh" can be changed through aging or through fermentation. Sometimes wet heat, or dry heat, can change potential food stuffs into something palatable. Turn buggy and tart crabapples into wine, berries into fruit leather or added to pemmican, break down calcium oxalate crystals, drive off volatile constituents with heat or evaporation. There's a big difference between palatable and barely edible.
This is probably my favorite of all 5 episodes. Brings me back to a lot of great memories as a child. Also I always wondered how early man figured out how to use flint to create fire. I often wondered if someone witnessed a boulder crashing down and all the right elements struck at the right time and made a smoldering coal.
"I'll give you a bit of eel- Many thanks! It's going to be hot- I'll believe you" Great dialogue between these two gentleman, there's something both charming and funny about it.
In Scotland as kids we were taught that you only ever eat the shell fish if the month has an R in it, January, February, March, April,September,October,November,and December. No toxic blooms around in them months as the water is really cold.
Fascinating and far less extreme than Bear G's shows. (However, I find his stuff a lot more fun to watch.) I wonder if you can brew the buckthorn juice into wine or beer. (Of course, sweetening the juice or salting it in order to make it less bitter.)
The natural brit bushcraft method to get fermentation going is to make a pulp of apple and a natural sugar, leave it 48 hours, occasionally stirring, then add to the base wine liquid. Ve
those iron nuggets could/would have been gathered for smelting into tools by blacksmiths later. I am sure the kelp roots are so large because they have not been gathered for decades if not centuries.
Do you mean the sea kale? If you are I highly recommend it as it quite good. But as with any wild foods make sure you know what you're doing, maybe buy a guide for wild plants, because you might have some nasty surprises if you get the wrong plant. Best of luck!
I was wondering if Ray,Gordon & Nicky while sitting under the over hang realized the path leading up to and way from the over hang. You can see that it's really has been well warn over the centenary's showing that it has been a very sort after gathering area through out time. Ray & Team another well done Video thanks again as all ways. Rod
You can take the buckthorn juice, and make a jerky out of it. Then it can be used for a meat rubdown (ascorbic acid, Vitamin C) keeps the meat clean for jerky, or for poultice uses as well. Otherwise, dilute down the intensity of the juice so that it doesn't taste like lemons and puckery.
The use of the buckthorn berry and juice has a far better utility. Just roll up into little pill sized objects. Pack them up in a dry container. Then the hunter-gatherer can pass out the little bitter pills each day to everybody, and they would be healthy with their daily Vit C. (Raspberry and blackberry leaves ... and rose hips and leaves) besides the berries have high Vit C, that can be harvested spring through winter for Vit C tea. Biochemists are now saying that they have found Vit B complex in mushrooms, so hunter-gatherers can get their vitamin here. Animal fats and bone marrow and fish (liver) oils have Vit A and D. Grains and nuts have Vit E. Hunter-gatherers, with a proper food supply, were far more healthy than us.
John Lord Actually, no they weren't. They were lucky to live to 50, and spent the last 20 years of that time suffering. There are still hunter gatherers today, and they are still malnourished. Ain't nobody short of vitamins. You'd die of starvation long before you had any symptoms of vitamin deficiencies. Lack of food is more unhealthy than ANYTHING found in any food. And way too much is made of "processed" food. The scaremongers seem like they are paid by the "organic" food industry to make shit up. Because most of these "processes" are just things like slicing and chopping and have no bearing whatsoever on nutrition. And a lot of these preservatives that hippies are so upset about are from the very berries and plants that they turn to as an alternative. Love that. Unless by "us" you mean the average internet user. And, lets face it: If hunter gatherers had Cola, they'd drink it all day. If they had that much honey, they'd eat it all day and that's just as bad, since it spikes insulin just as much, and that's the only harmful thing about Cola. And even that is utterly harmless unless it's done constantly over a long period without a break. If you listen to these "health" idiots, you'd think we're all being poisoned to death, despite living longer than at any time in earths history.
Alex Kingg No, they did not live longer in general. They suffered from the exact same problems as the rest of our species did at the time. Mainly dying from teeth problems, childbirth, infection, malnutrition, combat. Hippies, I wish you'd leave the internet.
Gordon Hillman, an expert in fungi, was poisoned and nearly died, because he ate "mushrooms" that were sent to him , having been given to him by a scientist in the same science building, after he had done with them, because he knew Hillman loved to eat Fungi!
chris bond is that the story where he wrote down on a piece of paper which mushroom it was, so that the doctors would know wht he had ingested? I think i remember him talking about that accident.
Lady comments when program finishes: Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS. So based on that it looks like this program originally aired in Aug 2007. But must have been filmed few months before.
Not to bash Gordon, but for an academic who studies prehistorical hunter-gatherers to first meet current hunter-gatherers towards the end of his career is rather a sad state of affairs in academia.
Gordon was suffering from Parkinson's disease and had started withdrawing from his illustrious work , of which there's many publications to go at , but he didn't give up and rarely complained .
Sea club rush is easier to process than that. Rub a few together in your hands to remove the fluff and then when they are cleaned, chew them to extract the nutrients. Then spit out the pulp and roast the pulp into cakes. Don’t waste energy making tools, when your teeth and jaw is more efficient.
is there a North American series like this anywhere? any videos I find are soooo NOT comprehensive. stupid short unclear videos with no context. this is real information.
Just so everyone is aware, those berries ar far past their prime in terms of flavour quality, the flavour gets fermented/ rancid tasting on the branch- still good for you but not as delicious.
um, I tried pan roasting acorns until there were at least 2-3 jumping out of the pan at high heat (wear goggles) but a day after eating them my balls felt uncomfortably tingly
