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Wilderness Chef: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Outdoors

Emma — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

‘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 SunThe 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.

My Outdoor Life

Emma — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

‘If Ray Mears isn’t a Great Living Englishman, then goodness me, who is? Ray is a persuader, pragmatist and populariser in the Durrell-Attenborough-Bellamy tradition.’ – Robert Crampton, The Times

Ray Mears is a household name through his television series Tracks, World of Survival, Bushcraft Survival, The Real Heroes of Telemark and many more. He is a private individual who shuns publicity whenever possible and would prefer to let his many skills tell their own tale – until now.

In My Outdoor Life, Ray tells of his childhood and the formative years when he first developed a passion for both bushcraft and the martial arts skills that are central to his life. Having travelled the world several times over, he is no stranger to risk and has had more than his fair share of dangerous and life-threatening encounters to share with his readers. But his life is so much more than a tale of derring-do. Shortly after he returned to England having narrowly survived a serious helicopter crash, his father died. Just a year later, he had to face the death of his first wife Rachel. The book conveys the many sides of Ray Mears, taking us up to the present day – including the previously untold story of his involvement in the man-hunt for murderer Raoul Moat.

My Outdoor Life gives us all a chance to share a life-story as rich and as inspirational as a walk in woods with the man himself, Ray Mears.

Heroes Of Telemark

Emma — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Sixty years ago, four men parachuted onto a Norwegian glacier, carrying only the most basic equipment. Their mission was to prevent the Nazi regime from building an atomic bomb. Now wilderness expert Ray Mears tells the true story of this gruelling campaign, showing how these men’s ability to survive in extreme conditions influenced the outcome of the Second World War.

The Telemark campaign was an example of the bravery and skill of the SOE trainees. The Norwegians transformed a military disaster into a triumph. This book tells the full story for the first time.