Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time

Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time

Georgia Pellegrini

Language: English

Pages: 256

ISBN: 0738216054

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


What happens when a classically-trained New York chef and fearless omnivore heads out of the city and into the wild to track down the ingredients for her meals? After abandoning Wall Street to embrace her lifelong love of cooking, Georgia Pellegrini comes face to face with her first kill. From honoring that first turkey to realizing that the only way we truly know where our meat comes from is if we hunt it ourselves, Pellegrini embarks on a wild ride into the real world of local, organic, and sustainable food.
 
Teaming up with veteran hunters, she trav­els over field and stream in search of the main course—from quail to venison and wild boar, from elk to javelina and squirrel. Pellegrini’s road trip careens from the back of an ATV chasing wild hogs along the banks of the Mississippi to a dove hunt with beer and barbeque, to the birthplace of the Delta Blues. Along the way, she meets an array of unexpected characters—from the Commish, a venerated lifelong hunter, to the lawyer-by day, duck-hunting-Bayou-philosopher at dawn—who offer surprising lessons about food and life. Pellegrini also discovers the dangerous underbelly of hunting when an outing turns illegal—and dangerous.
 
More than a food-laden hunting narrative, Girl Hunteralso teaches you how to be a self-sufficient eater. Each chapter offers recipes for finger-licking dishes like:
  • wild turkey and oyster stew
  • stuffed quail
  • pheasant tagine
  • venison sausage
  • fundamental stocks, brines, sauces, and rubs
  • suggestions for interchanging proteins within each recipe
Each dish, like each story, is an adventure from begin­ning to end.
 
An inspiring, illuminating, and often funny jour­ney into unexplored territories of haute cuisine, Girl Hunter captures the joy of rolling up your sleeves and getting to the heart of where the food you eat comes from.

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Smoky light. And we eat it with a good wine and Roger’s homemade bread and an elegant salad bejeweled with pecans. It is the peak of the deer rut, the first two weeks of December, when you expect to see deer in daylight. In the words of the Commish, “They have one thing on their mind: acting stupid.” It is a moonless night in Arkansas. The nature preserve is silent except for the inside of the deer camp, which is lit with a deer-antler chandelier and golden lamps, and filled with Roger.

Which can give the meat an unappealing flavor. Some hunters will go so far as to trap the boar, castrate it and release it, then hunt it a year later. If given a choice, female Eurasian boar or feral hogs tend to taste better, but I’m of the mind-set that a male can be made to taste good with a clean shot, impeccable field dressing, and a good brine prior to cooking. Braised Hog Belly Serves 8 If you are fortunate enough to come upon a very large hog, this is the recipe I recommend for the.

A tree indigenous to your area. In the Southwest it is mesquite, in Washington State it is apple wood, and in the Midwest it is hickory. The following instructions are guidelines more than an exact recipe. You must go with your intuition and your hog to determine the right amounts of the ingredients. Marinade: 1 whole hog, dressed, skinned, head and hooves removed 1 to 2 cups Worcestershire sauce 1/4 to 1/2 cup Cajun salt seasoning 3 to 4 onions, peeled and cut in half 10 to 20 garlic.

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