Sea Ducking in San Francisco
A duck hunting trip on the San Francisco Bay was radically different from the sort of duck hunting we normally do. But it was a thrilling experience matched by the challenge of cooking sea ducks.
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Finding the Forgotten Feast
Duck: The Cookbook
Duck, Duck Goose Ready for Preorder!
W00t! Here it is: My duck cookbook is available for pre-order on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble! Just a few short months and I’ll be on the road to a place near your, copies in hand…
Coming this Fall: ‘Duck, Duck Goose’ Book Tour
Plans for my 2013-2014 book tour for “Duck, Duck, Goose” — yep, we have an official title now — are already afoot! It’s looking like the tour will be about 50 cities in 38 states in four months. Hope my little truck (and I) can take it!
Essays
Seedlings
One look at a garden will tell you something about the mind of the gardener. A well-tended garden is a symbol of stability, and of peace. A weedy one betrays neglect or indifference. Now, after a long time fallow, my garden is full of seedlings.
Into the Squirrel Woods
Something about squirrel hunting touches me deeply. Moreso than anything else, hunting squirrels in the Eastern forests takes me back to childhood, to the woods that were my home when as a boy. I miss those days of exploration, but they all came flooding back recently in one epic day in Ohio.
An Awful Mercy
Sometimes a hunt is more than a hunt. Sometimes it is a window into the dark reaches of this world, and the next. I came away from my Wyoming antelope hunt with a vision of courage — not by me or by any of my companions, but of the animals we pursued.
Heeding the Siren’s Song of Salmon
If you live long enough, you start to see glimpses of paths untaken, lives you could have lived but for chance or snap decision. Last week I got a long look at what I could have done had I become a commercial fisherman years ago. Did I make the right choice to stay on land?
Reflections on Catfish
Catfish swim through a murky stream of race, class and regional rivalry. No other fish in North America defines where you stand in this world quite so much as the catfish. Eating one can border on being a political act.
The Lines We Draw
A lot of people think I will eat anything. A lot of people are wrong. A recent news story here in California brought this into focus.
On Killing
Hunting season brings with it a flood of emotions. Elation when you succeed, frustration when you do not, and always a deep contemplation about what it means to kill for food.
Become a Hunter
Want to Learn to Hunt? Start Now
Want to learn how to hunt but haven’t the faintest idea how? This should help get you started – but you need to begin your journey soon, as hunting season will soon be here…
