Through the blackwater bayous and in the dark Louisiana night, floats a duck camp, alive with the sounds of swamp pop and the smells of Cajun cooking. A refuge filled with gunpowder, tall tales, and boudin; this duck camp is a welcomed outpost for hunters escaping the noise of everyday life. Over these next 8 episodes, we’ll see what it means to cook recipes from the “swamp floor pantry”, and explore Louisiana’s rich complicated history with the outdoors.
The Duck Camp Dinners Crew is back in the black waters of Louisiana- cooking up cajun food, hunting ringnecks, and gaining some taxidermy know how.
The DCD crew goes catfishing, and fries up some local seafood with native neighbors in the swamp before cooking up an iconic cajun dish.
The Duck Camp Dinners crew leaves the bayous and heads down river to Venice, Louisiana where they prepare for their first duck hunt in the delta.
Blake shares a family recipe with the DCD crew, Chef Jean-Paul smokes ducks, and the crew heads out on a wild boar hunt in the marshes surrounding Venice.
The DCD crew spends a day fishing in the gulf in an effort to complete the trifecta of a meat haul. Blake shows us where he spent much of his childhood, and we get a glimpse into the impact mother nature can have on a community.
The Duck Camp Dinner crew migrates west to the cajun prairies of Louisiana where rice is king of the land and speckle belly geese are king of the sky.
Jean-Paul breaks off from the crew to hunt a grit pile with a father-son duo, and sees first hand the effort that goes into feeding an entire camp. The crew takes an airboat tour to discover what efforts the state is making to preserve our coast for future generations of hunters and wildlife.
The Duck Camp Dinners crew is back in the bayous as Jean-Paul wraps up his last hunt of the season before the birth of his son. Jean-Paul shares a duck recipe handed down by his father, the crew forages for wild mushrooms, gets into swarms of blue wing teal, and closes out the season in celebration.