So the only thing I miss about not living in a "Big City" is the lack of good restaurants and an over abundance of shitty fast food.

A few days ago I caught an episode of "Gordon Ramsay's F Word" and have been hooked ever since. I am a huge fan of Gordon Ramsay's approach to his profession (despite the popular backlash against his media persona).


At the beginning of the show he usually walks through the dining room of his restaurant with the recently killed whole intact animals slung over his shoulder (e.g. deer, lamb, geese, fish, etc.) into the kitchen to show off the special of the day while the restaurant patrons watch and usually clap their approval

The thing I love is that he takes the food from nature all the way to the table. He shows the pigs that he raised as he feeds and cares for them, then takes them to the abattoir to be killed (showing the entire process), then takes the bodies to the butcher to be sectioned, and then shows the different ways of cooking the different types of meat (including every part of the animal). In another he shows buying some female sheep and then taking them to a farm where he picks out a male to rent, shows them mating, and follows them from their pregnancy to delivery of the lambs which he raises himself in order to kill and eat them in a future episode.

Today he used a Falconer to catch wild rabbits in a field and showed the entire process from the field (where the bird tears open the rabbits head but leaves the rest of the body in perfect condition) to the dinner plate. It is refreshing to see somebody who can respect animals, treats them humanely and is never cruel, and still enjoys eating them. It is exactly the way I feel.

If you haven't seen this show, and you like good food, I recommend it.