Wilderness Chef

The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Outdoors

Ray Mears

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English

Conway
02 July 2020

Quick & easy cooking; Cooking for or with children; Camping & woodcraft; Outdoor survival skills

'This book is SO good! Anybody going camping, staying local, this is an absolute MUST!' Zoe Ball, Radio 2

'I LOVE THIS BOOK' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show

'Wilderness Chef is a poetic meditation on escape and cooking elegant food in the wild' Phil Robinson, The Times

'This cookbook should be your top pick for flavoursome food in the open air' METRO

'Packed with ideas and simple, tasty and largely healthy [food]' i newspaper

'Ingenious ways to conjure a feast whether you’re out camping, on a long hike or enjoying a day at the beach' The Sun

The first cookbook from outdoors legend Ray Mears, Wilderness Chef shows you how to cook delicious, flavoursome food in the open air, whether in the wilderness or your own garden.

Ray Mears has spent his life travelling the world, living with and learning from trackers, adventurers and indigenous peoples in the desert, the rainforests and the Arctic north. In this book he shares a delicious array of his most popular recipes, tried-and-tested for all levels of skill and in all conditions whether in the garden or the wild, from quick and tasty meals to opulent gourmet feasts.

Opening with advice on setting up your outdoor kitchen, Ray shows how to light a fire, cook in ashes and leaves, steam, smoke and build a simple ground oven.

He then shares his fabulous and enjoyable recipes, including:

- easy ideas that children and grownups can try (campfire s'mores, wilderness hot dog, egg on a stick)

- gourmet meals (Italian hunter's rabbit, succulent split-stick roasted salmon)

- recipes learned from bushmen and indigenous peoples (potjiekos, canoe country pancakes, fragrant and intense Gurkha curry)

Woven throughout are colourful stories of Ray’s cooking around the world, from baking a birthday cake using ingredients sourced in the rainforest, to pulling a giant Emu leg drumstick out of a ground oven built by a Pitjantjatjara elder in the Central Australian desert.

Gather round an open fire. Share delicious food inspired by the outdoors and infused with age-old wisdom. This is living. This is the way of the wilderness chef.

By: Ray Mears
Imprint: Conway
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 190mm,
Weight: 820g
ISBN: 9781844865826
ISBN 10: 1844865827
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 02 July 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ray Mears is recognised throughout the world as an authority on the subjects of bushcraft and survival. He has also become a household name through his writing and television series, including Tracks, World of Survival, Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor, The Real Heroes of Telemark and many more. These programmes have reached out and touched the hearts of everyone, from small children to grandparents. They are enjoyed by many because of Ray's down to earth approach, his obvious love for his subject and the empathy and respect he shows for indigenous peoples and their cultures. Ray has spent his life learning these skills and is truly a master of the subject he calls Wilderness Bushcraft.

Reviews for Wilderness Chef: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Outdoors

This book is SO good! Anybody going camping this summer, staying local, this is an absolute MUST! My mouth is watering as I look at it! -- Zoe Ball * BBC Radio 2 * I love this book! -- Chris Evans * Virgin Radio Breakfast Show * Mears brings his survivalist expertise to bear on this guide to cooking while camping, hiking, or canoeing…This book belongs in any nature lover’s backpack. * Publishers Weekly * Ingenious ways to conjure a feast whether you’re out camping, on a long hike or enjoying a day at the beach. * The Sun * Ray Mears has penned a guide to cooking outdoors, showing how you can whip up anything from fish to curry with just a hot fire and minimal equipment. * The Daily Star * This cookbook should be your top summer pick for flavoursome food in the open air. * Metro * Wilderness Chef is packed with ideas for creating skewers and grills with primitive materials and building fires, ground ovens and ember pits to cook your catch in... it is simple, tasty and largely healthy -- Sophie Morris * The i newspaper * Mears shows you how to cook well and safely, detailing essential tools and the basics of building a fire to how to cook a whole fish on a cleft stick. An incredibly practical book that shows any meal is possible outdoors. * BBC Countryfile Magazine * Wilderness Chef is a poetic meditation on escape and cooking elegant food in the wild. -- Phil Robinson * The Times *