North America is full of large and — if dealt with properly — tasty ungulates. One of which is the grand ole dinosaur of them all, the moose. Moose is a main staple at my table because of the incredible amount of meat from the big Canadian bull I ...
Bison Sliders With Air-Fried Sweet Potatoes
The American buffalo — or yanasi in Cherokee, tatanka in Lakota, and scientifically Bison bison — has provided food for native North Americans for millennia, as well as served as the wildlife icon for the continent itself. In the not-so-distant past, ...
Numb Decisions: An Essay on Ice Climbing
My fingertips have just regained feeling. The screaming nerves claw at my skin and burn the last half-hour of ice climbing into my brain. Below the belay I hear THWACK, THWACK — each placement of a tool cutting and holding ice 200 feet up this ...
A Holiday Wild Game Roast, Brined
My hands are numb. Well, mostly just my fingertips, but I finally find the roast I’m looking for deep in my chest freezer. It’s from an elk I hunted with Garrett Johnson in southern Utah in 2019. It was cold then, too. Five pounds of healthy, ...
How to Prepare a Wild Turkey Thanksgiving
I was patiently sitting, hands nipped with cold, listening to my own breath and the occasional squeak sqwuak eek eek from Chad Mendes as he made turkey calls in the Kansas morning frost. We sat for hours, listening to the echoes of gobbles from ...
Super Meat: Fortify Ground Beef with Game Liver
Nose-to-tail or holistic eating has gained momentum in culinary and hunting communities recently, but we humans have been eating organ meats since we first started walking upright. Organs are the most nutrient-dense part of the body, so it makes ...
Mountain Goat Backstrap Over an Open Fire
In September, Cole Kramer and I guided a mountain goat hunt on the savage landscape of Kodiak Island, Alaska. The best part — or one of the best parts — was backstrap over an open fire. After several long days and cold evenings spent trudging over ...
How to Build a Kitchen Cook Kit
Our ancestors separated from the great apes thanks to cooking with tools over fire. Yet now in our tech-heavy age, thanks to apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats, a whole generation of young adults has never learned how to cook. We’re here to help. ...
