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Flavors of the Alps
Duck with Turnips and Rye Spaetzle
This dish is so simple, all the flavors come together beautifully. And if you’ve never made homemade spatzle, it’s easier than you think.
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Senegalese Elk Mafe
Mafe is a slow simmered braise of shanks or shoulder. Lots of peanuts, some chiles and a whole lotta awesome.
A Foraged Tea
Fireweed Tea
Fireweed tea is a fermented, black tea like store-bought, only made from the leaves of fireweed, Chamaenerion angustifolium.
A Hunt on a Plate
Fancy Pigeon
A band-tailed pigeon recipe that uses ingredients from where these game birds live. Acorn spatzle, a pigeon jus, pine nuts and various pickled fruits.
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Hi There!
My name is Hank Shaw.
I write. I cook. I hunt, fish, dig earth, forage, ferment things, brew beer, raise plants, live for food and chase God’s creatures. I drink Scotch or Bud, eat burgers or dine on caviar, depending on my mood or what day of the week it happens to be. I spend my days thinking about new ways to cook and eat anything that walks, flies, swims, crawls, skitters, jumps – or grows. This is my story.
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