Wild Game Cookery: Down-Home Recipes for Foods from the Wild

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Summary: Practical and easy approaches to complicated preparations!
Review: After reading this cookbook, I felt like the graduate of a low-key cooking course. The mystery of stocks and sauces is solved in this practical, yet sophisticated guide to the preparation of fish, fowl, wild game and natural foods. Vance leads her readers ever so gently and enthusiastically from foraging for wild cattails, to toeing for clams, to building your own smoker, to preparing diving duck. In the process, she makes everything sound easy! I found this cookbook to be a particularily refreshing guide to the preparation of natural foods from scratch ... the poaching liquid becomes the base of a soup, the scraps and bones go into a pot for the stock ... this is real cooking for real people. I found it worth reading just for the newsy notes, comments and tips on how to make food preparation easy and simple. I don't fish or hunt, but I am an avid cook who is always wants to try something new. Most grocery stores offer an ever-widening selection of fish and game, but I am often not as "adventurous" as I'd like to be because I am unsure how to prepare & serve them. Vance's cookbook solves this dilemma and encourages me to be as "wild" as I'd like to be! If you are a hunter (or love someone who is), I would definitely include "Wild Game Cookery" on your Christmas wish list.

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Summary: Great recipes and more!
Review: My husband has been bringing venison and partridge home for years...but I never really knew what to do with it until I got this book. Now I make gourmet meals like Venison Scaloppine and Pheasant Breast Margarita! It has lots of easy recipes too, and even some vegetarian ones like Dandelion Salad and Wild Rice with Mushrooms. Bon Appetit!