Well-known newspaper columnist and author Joe ‘Catch-and-Kill’ Bennett with a splendid 4-pound brown trout taken on the dry fly. This fish was subsequently smoked for him – see ‘Fish cookery’ for recipes. See also ‘Fishing for lake trout’ for fishing technique. Photo: Paul Corliss

 

 
The famous chef Antonio Carluccio dealing with some wild porcini (cepes) during his 2002 visit to New Zealand. In recent years it has become widely known that cepes occur in association with oak, elm and some other trees in New Zealand’s South Island, and they are eagerly sought after by gastronomes. Photo: Gareth Renowden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some articles on wild food in New Zealand – fish, game, wild food of all kinds. This section is still under development and new articles and recipes will be added from time to time.

Mushroom recipes
Fabulous mushroom recipes from Cook’n’with Gas – Recipes by Bruce Griffiths and Scott Baker.

Fish cookery
Heritage Foods director Mike Bradstock has run a very popular fish cookery course a Cashmere Community College for the past eight years. The following recipes are from his course notes.

A five-course wild food meal
In September 1996 Horace Bent of the British Bookseller magazine invited entries for a contest producing a three-course wild food meal. This is Mike Bradstock’s entry, which was published in the magazine.

Fishing for kids
Tips on taking kids out to catch their first (or not quite first!) fish

Eels - slimy denizens or magnificent beasts?
An article about New Zealand’s freshwater eels.

Know your fish
A work in progress providing an alphabetical list of common and alternative names of most of the common New Zealand marine and freshwater fish regarded as edible. Compiled by Mike Bradstock

Fishing for lake trout in New Zealand’s South Island
Heritage Foods director Mike Bradstock is also an accomplished trout angler. Here he offers his advice on how to fish successfully for trout in South Island lakes – a great activity for the modern hunter/gatherer!

Light is RIGHT!
An article praising the virtues of light tackle when sea fishing in New Zealand.Watch this page for more articles being continually added!

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