Comments by "CuteCatFaith" (@CuteCatFaith) on "Hunting and Foraging: MUNCHIES Guide to Scotland (Episode 4)" video.

  1. Friends, family and contacts in the United States have ridiculed me (and worse) for over two decades for living as I do in Europe.  They "pity" me for not having gadgets and frills.  I got a new lease on life and wouldn't exchange this for anything.  Some have come to visit and actually, some freak out.  They just cannot handle all the quiet, peace, polite human contact, nature, culture, and quality of life.  Others just blossom here and find they have little anxiety, stress, and have pleasure in little things such as walking, eating, waking up refreshed, et c.  Invariably, many ask to smoke even if they are not smokers!  (I try to warn them not to -- Paris has a bad climate.)  Our country places in Brittany BLEW AN OLD FRIEND'S MIND!  He loved meeting the peasant relatives and seeing all the Roman roads, megaliths, vipers, birds of prey, horses, et c.
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  2. redflamelcd I found Scotland preferable to England ... but that's just me.  I am crazy about Iceland, too.  I know what you mean about cities.  I lived for 17 years in NYC -- the first two in Manhattan.  Not for me.  Good luck!  If you make it to Scotland, you'll need good boots and very sturdy woolen attire, which you can certainly find there.  :)
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  3. Max Avila I'm looking for clips by him of France.  I really was ill a lot my first six months here!  The tap water has a lot of limescale (I had the same problem as a student in Italy -- takes time to adjust).  I found the diet in France heavy on meat, fat, salt and sugar.  It was hard to learn to "eat French," slowly, thoughtfully, on time, no snacks, small portions, little or no beverage with food, et c.  I have a terrible weakness for the dry cider here, which is at 12% alcohol content (the sweet has only about 4%).  You can go nuts with the wine here and it's easy to drink too much!!  Brittany actually is not known for cheeses, due to its climate, but it IS known for "the best butter in the world."  The soil is poor, the climate harsh, the people traditionally poor and working often with the sea and subsistence farming.  If you get there, try to stick to local foods.  They may seem very limited (I suppose they are, if they are local and seasonal) but this is not a French culture -- it is Celtic -- and French was not required to be used in Breton public schools until 1936.  I recommend Quimper, at the tip of Brittany.  There is an international airport not far away, and you get Celtic and French culture there (people do still speak Breton), the architecture is superb, the culture lively (universities are there, a good sign), there are canals, the sea is nearby, lots of water around, and you can get the most traditional with the most edgy and trendy there.  Quimper has "something for all ages."  If you then want to go to Paris or anywhere else, there is the TGV train (book in advance for best rates).  The "party cars" for socializing and first class really are not necessary -- if you ask for a second class "quiet" car they are fine, and you can enjoy the bar area (take your own food and drink, discreetly, however -- they often run out of their overpriced fare).  Brittany is highly favored by many French (and savvy others) for visits and vacation, because it usually costs way less and is very welcoming to families, travelers and yes, gourmets!  It's huge, bigger than Normandy, and we still hope to visit the wild island of Ouessant, way out there beyond the tip and often cut off by bad seas for a week at a time.  Breton food is very different from all other French food.  I think I've been pretty much all over Brittany in the past 20 years, and there is an area inland or by the water to suit you.  I recommend a three-week visit if you can manage that.  If you want to contact me for ideas, I have a website noted on all my clips and there's a contact point.  (I am retired and don't do guiding anymore for declared money.)  If you want to try some Breton recipes in the meantime, I like the Susan Hermann Loomis book FRENCH FARMHOUSE COOKING.  It is designed for Americans but works for anyone who is English-speaking.  This is one of my go-to books for French "real" cooking.  On a budget, even.  She limits the anecdotes, but they are charming.  Anyone can cook with French flair and authenticity with her book.  Kenavo!  (This is both hello and goodbye in Breton.)  :) 
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  4. If you ever see it, you will never, ever forget it until the Great Forgetting ...
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  5. I always want local game and specialties.  I avoid the familiar and want what is seasonal, fresh, and from right there.  I've always liked all types of venison, and helped a grandfather dress a deer he'd had the right to shoot on a culling lottery he paid for.  He taught me to fish and I like bow and arrow hunting and fishing. 
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  6. Everyone, whether they eat meat or wear leather or not, should hunt or fish or both at least once, kill and process the catch, at least once.  It gives you a reverence for life and you think about where everything comes from.  How was your fruit grown, picked, transported, processed?  Who did it?  Was the animal or fish farmed?  Where was the leather tanned?  What was the impact?  How many horse hooves have I seen in movies?  And so on.
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  7. Tristan Scott Lack of lucidity.  Senility.
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