The Bain Marie is christened and launched in March, when signs of spring are extremely thin on the ground. As Hugh peers over the steering wheel at the dreary, cold landscape, he is soon tempted off the barge and on to his trusty gastro-bike to forage further from the barren banks.
In Prickly Nut Woods he comes upon Ben Law who has traded the rat race for a life of coppicing, charcoal burning and communing with nature. In the absence of anything immediately edible, Ben introduces Hugh to the patient art of country brewing which begins with tapping sap from the stately silver birch. Although the brew must ferment for three months, thankfully Ben has a batch he prepared earlier and Hugh passes an entertaining evening sampling Ben's extensive country wine cellar.
The next morning, Hugh's hangover is accompanied by an ominous sprinkling of snow and the Bain Marie draws up to the canal bank amid an established colony of narrow boats in Oxford. Steve Warn is an experienced boatman and waterway wheeler-dealer, and he shows Hugh how to use a chicken carcass as bait for freshwater crayfish.
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Series 2 Episode 1
The Bain Marie is christened and launched in March, when signs of spring are extremely thin on the ground. As Hugh…
- Includes the killing and skinning of a hare
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Series 2 Episode 2
Hugh wends his way up the river Severn, a route which is simultaneously being taken by millions of baby eels - or…
- Includes cooking of live eels and fish gutting
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Series 2 Episode 3
Hugh is leaving behind the inland waterways and heading "salt side", chugging his way towards a seashore forage in the…
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Series 2 Episode 4
Hugh's waterborne zig-zag across Britain brings him to heart of Yorkshire, along canals formerly bustling with the boom…
- Includes capture and butchering of rooks
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