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Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time
Da Capo Press
December 2011
On Sale: December 13, 2011
256 pages ISBN: 0738214663 EAN: 9780738214665 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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