For breakfast, the poached emu steak is served with bacon, eggs, toast, baked beans and a sauce made from wild bush tomatoes.

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Even Mr Bush's wild past resonates: Amish teenagers are known to sow their oats before returning to the church.

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"We're already hearing stories about families living on at most one meal a day, children going into the bush to search for wild food and wild fruit, " Mr Lee told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.

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When she first arrived at the age of 19, famously discovered by David Gilmore of Pink Floyd, Kate Bush was like a beautiful alien, a wild, untamed musical creature.

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One moment, Virginia McKenna, aka Joy Adamson, was walking through the bush with Elsa, the lioness the Adamsons wanted to return to the wild.

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"This is still a hard place to live in, but it's everything that's left to me, " says Bush, who draws his water from a natural spring and hunts the hardwood forests for wild onions, mushrooms and herbs.

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