Ep 170 - Viking Foraging and Cooking with Saxon Forager
Nordic Mythology Podcast
Daniel Farrand
4.8 • 356 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Dan is joined by Craig Brooks AKA Saxon Forager to talk about all things cooking and foraging in modern day and the Viking age.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast, I'm Daniel Farron, on the coming horns of Odin and today I'm joined by Craig Brooks who is also known as the |
| 0:15.3 | Saxon forager. Welcome Craig do you want to let people know what you do what you |
| 0:22.2 | specialise in? |
| 0:23.0 | Oh, what are we going to talk about? |
| 0:25.0 | Oh, what are we going to talk about? |
| 0:28.0 | We shall find out. |
| 0:29.0 | Yeah, so I'm actually, I start off by saying I'm a painter and decorator by trade. |
| 0:35.0 | So I'm not academic before anyone thinks that I am. |
| 0:42.0 | But it's just something that I've ended up getting into. I've kind of fallen |
| 0:46.1 | and down a rabbit hole and it's taken me on an interesting journey and I think I've got to the point. I often say that it's a hobby that's getting out of control but I think it's gotten out of control. |
| 0:58.5 | So yeah I kind of started off with Viking Age reactment, mainly portraying Anglo-Saxon, and mainly I cover food and drink. |
| 1:10.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:11.0 | But two of my favorite topics. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.2 | So, okay, you do yourself a disservice as so many people do. |
| 1:22.2 | What did you say before you were on channel five which is a |
| 1:26.4 | British TV channel one of the main five terrestrial ones mind you it's not me feet yeah I was I was on with rapture Dave he used to be on time team |
| 1:39.1 | I was talking to her about Viking Age food on a program I can't remember the name of it now is Vikings |
| 1:46.7 | Blood conquest and something I can't remember it was three part series a couple of weeks back and yeah they said I was experimental |
| 1:55.8 | archaeologists. So there you go. That's what you should have led to with. |
| 2:03.0 | I feel like sp and Decorate wasn't the best lead, but I don't think of you. |
| 2:09.0 | So it's, you know, people, I think people all do themselves a disservice and especially you know it is |
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