Wild Game
Sardinian Hare Stew
Hares and jackrabbits are almost always poor man's meat, and this Sardinian hare stew takes simple ingredients and makes them special. It's good cold weather food that can stretch a long way in tight times.
Preservation Recipes
Preserved Lemons
Preserved lemons are not just the province of Morocco. Methods of preserving or pickling lemons exist wherever they are grown, including 19th century America.
Recipe
Venison Swedish Meatballs
What could be better than authentic Swedish meatballs? Authentic Swedish meatballs made with moose meat and sauced with highbush cranberries and cream, that's what.
Italian
Duck Meatballs
How to make the quintessential Italian meatball, from any meat - including some wild ducks and geese not normally known for good eating. It's all in the method...
Venison
Portuguese Braised Deer Shank
Nothing like a nasty winter rainstorm to get me braising meats -- in this case a Portuguese style braised venison shank, with fresh nettles and celery root puree mixed with mascarpone cheese.
Recipe
The Mechanics of Eating Acorns
Everything you need to know using acorns for food. When to collect, what kind of oaks are best, how to leach out the bitter tannins, how to store the acorns, make acorn flour - and acorn flour pasta.
Foraging
Acorn Cake and Acorns Around the World
One of the first questions I had as I began researching acorns years ago was what do other groups do…
Fish
How to Make Caviar
Caviar has always had a hold on me. It is a mysterious ingredient, almost otherworldy; the individual eggs look like jewels…
Recipe
Not My Mum’s Venison Lasagna
Lasagne (or is it lasagna?). Whatever, it is a bedrock staple of my childhood in New Jersey. I grew up…
Recipe
Prickly Pear Syrup
Well into my adulthood, all I knew about prickly pears was that they are the fruit of a cactus, the…
Pheasant, Grouse, Quail
Roast Grouse and Minnesota’s Glories
I’ve met many here in California who think that all good things can be had in our Golden State, where the magic…
Recipe
Preserving Peppers
Consider, for a moment, the sweet pepper. No other plant demands so much, gives so little, yet keeps us coming back…
