Stuck at home and just noticed there's this show on satellite called "The Wild Chef," airs at 11:00 EDT, apparently every weekday, on the Food Network. Features two French guys who go out hunting and then cook what they got, all in 30 minutes. Seems to be an older show but I never saw it before. Does anyone watch and is this show worthy of recording daily on my precious pixel space? Right now they're cooking woodcock and this episode seems pretty good. Didn't know I didn't have to gut my woodcock before eating, now I do. But maybe I won't.
The Wild Chef (TV)
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The chef is very well known in Montreal's restaurant scene, he has a very special/artistic way of preparing the animals he cooks but he respects the animal and tries as best as possible to use up the whole animal. Unlike other cooking shows if he doesn't like something he tells you. One episode they made moose heart and he didn't like the preparation and you could see how upset he was that they ruined such a rare part. He won't just cook up some backstraps wrapped in bacon, aside from the haute cuisine part it feels like camp cooking, they're outside in the cold, wind and rain cooking their kill as fresh as possible
Recorded today's episode, which I guess true to form had them hunting in the arctic and then cooking and eating the game outdoors... and there was snow on the ground, it wasn't in the summer. Heck, I can't even keep a cup of coffee warm outside when it's anywhere below 15 degrees. I'll keep watching, but I've never seen a working cook risking hypothermia before.
Probably the best hunting/cooking show on TV. I'd buy it in a second on DVD if I could find it.
He's a fellow squirrel hunter and eater, so he can do no wrong in my mind
The show keeps going away and moving around but maybe I'll be able to track it this winter.
