Advertisement
Game
Appears in
By Keith Floyd
Published 1988
Of the wealth of aliments bestowed on man by a bountiful Providence for his sustenance and delectation, none lends a greater grace or ministers more to the variety of the table than game. The offspring of wild nature, nursed upon its fruits, its mast, and its vegetation and exhaling the very essence of its most secluded recesses, it sheds an added lustre even upon the most elaborate repast.
George Ellwanger, Pleasure of the Table.
If the BBC ever threatens to send me to a desert island I won’t go unless they assure me that the woodlands are bursting with pheasants, the hedgerows wild with hares and rabbits, the moors are thick with grouse and partridge, the coast is covered with teal and snipe and wild boar roam the forests. I mean, to hell with the records and the books – just give me the means to catch the game and some matches to light a fire, and I’ll be in heaven.