Eating Wild: The Game Show

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Nichola Fletcher, of Fletcher's Seriously Good Venison in Scotland and author of Charlemagne's Tablecloth and Nichola Fletcher's Venison Cookery, explains the importance of venison farming and details the culinary history of the king of the forest.

Ken Albala, professor of history at the University of the Pacific and author of Food in Early Modern Europe (Food through History) and The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe (The Food Series), reveals several surprises about game, hunting, and the tastes and politics of wild food in Renaissance Europe.