Chris Cosentino Is More Than The Offal Guy
We recently spoke to California chef Chris Cosentino about getting people to eat brains, Napa post-wildfires, hunting and more.
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MeatEater Debuts Podcast, Airs A Burger-Cooking Special Tonight
[caption id="attachment_75566" align="alignnone" width="700" ] MeatEater host Steven Rinella's recently debuted podcast discusses all things hunting and fishing.[/caption] When Steven Rinella, the host of television show MeatEater on Sportsman Channel and the author of a book of the same name, is not facing off against vegans or building bird houses with his two-year old, he’s…
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Venison Is Tasty But Tricky: Here's How To Turn Your Fresh Kill Into Killer Tacos
When it comes to your feel-good foods, it doesn’t get any more organic or free range than wild venison, or deer meat. If you hunt, or you're at least lucky enough to have a generous hunter in your life, you already know that this red meat can be tasty as a roast, a steak, stir-fry,…
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15 Crispy, Fatty, Unctuous Reasons We Love Eating Every Part Of The Duck
There are just so many reasons to love eating duck. It's certainly a versatile protein, capable of being fried up into nuggets, stuffed into Chinese pancakes and turned into bacon. That's right, duck bacon! It's also one of the most fruit-friendly proteins out there (no offense, pork), pairing seamlessly with apple, pineapple and even Orangina.…
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Steven Rinella On The History Of The Great Bear Bacon Trade In America
Tonight marks the premiere of the fifth season of MeatEater, Steven Rinella’s outdoors hunting television series produced by Zero Point Zero Production, the parent company of Food Republic. Airing on The Sportsman Channel tonight at 8 p.m. EST, the series has earned multiple Sportsman Choice Awards, as well as a James Beard nomination. In conjunction…
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Georgia Pellegrini Says We Should All Be Eating Squirrel
We are featuring Q&As from our recent Food Republic Interview Lounge at the W Austin during the Austin Food & Wine Festival, including video excerpts of the sessions with host Richard Martin. Next up is Georgia Pellegrini, the hunter, chef, TV personality, travel guide and author of three books, including Girl Hunter and the recent…
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Austin Hunter And Butcher Jesse Griffiths Transitions From The Field To The Café
While many modern chefs utilize local sourcing and farmers’ market goods, Jesse Griffiths has made them the focal point of his career. Griffiths is a Texas butcher, chef, hunter, educator and author, but all aspects of his trade focus on sustainability. His cookbook Afield, which features a contribution from Andrew Zimmern, teaches readers how to…
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Video: Steven Rinella Hunts And Cooks Ducks With Joe Rogan
Ready your duck calls, it's time to get up at 5 in the morning to hunt! We got our hands on this extra scene from tonight's episode of MeatEater with Steven Rinella (courtesy of our parent company, Zero Point Zero Production), where he and guest Joe Rogan tackle the wildlife of Wisconsin. This clip's a…
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Video: Steven Rinella Makes Wild Ram Meatball Sliders
serves 6-8 as an appetizer 2 pounds ground Dall sheep (or venison, elk, buffalo — really any lean game meat) 1/3 pound pork fat 10 cloves garlic 1 cup breadcrumbs 1 dozen slider buns or small dinner rolls 1/2 pound provolone cheese, sliced thinly 2 eggs, beaten 32 ounces crushed tomatoes salt and pepper oil…
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Want Lean, Organic, Free-Range Meat? Get It Yourself!
Hunters live controversial, even downright unorthodox lifestyles. A significant portion of the American public views our primary tools with contempt, and they question the ethics of killing your own food when you could buy it in a store and thereby let someone else do the killing for you. So it’s really no wonder that hunters…
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Video: Steven Rinella Pulls Dungeness Crab From Alaskan Waters. Makes Us Hungry.
[embed=//www.youtube.com/embed/cSmcQR8mZsM] When Steven Rinella, host of show MeatEater on Sportsman Channel and author of a book of the same name, is not facing off against vegans or building bird houses with his two-year old, he’s likely out hunting. His passion for the sport is the basis of his show, which has the Michigan native heading…
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Video: Hank Shaw Hunts It Down On The 'Meat Eater' Season Finale
We got our hands on an exclusive clip from the season finale of MeatEater, this Sunday at 9 p.m. EST on the Sportsman Channel. Check out famed hunter/gatherer/angler/gardener/cook Hank Shaw as he joins Steven Rinella on a Columbia Blacktail and wild pig hunt that ends in wild hare stew, a Hank Shaw specialty. [embed=//www.youtube.com/embed/U-Rzbyh9PCc] More…
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Video: Joe Rogan, Certified Badass Dude, Went Hunting For The First Time
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/5el4LPGPILc] Steven Rinella is host of the TV show MeatEater on Sportsman Channel. He likes to take celebrities to places like Alaska, New Zealand and the Missouri Breaks in Montana to teach them all about the art of hunting, and cooking, wild game. On the season finale, Rinella hangs out with Joe Rogan (host of…
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Video: Steven Rinella And Joe Rogan Hunt For Bighorn Sheep. Emphasis, Big.
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/arIAHii4_3s] When Steven Rinella, host of show MeatEater on Sportsman Channel and author of a book of the same name, is not facing off against vegans or building bird houses with his two-year old, he’s likely out hunting. His passion for the sport is the basis of his show, which features all kinds of celebrities…
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Get In The Game! The Many Benefits Of Eating Wild Animals
Having grown up in Quebec, I’m no stranger to big game. My uncle hunted moose, so eating at his place meant dining on moose steaks, moose burgers, moose spaghetti bolognese. The meat was gamey and lean; cooking it was tricky. As Chris Hughes likes to say, there are two ways to cook game meat: a…
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Moroccan Elk Stew Recipe
This isn’t your everyday stew, but it’s perfect for the really cold months and for large gatherings when you have a lot of people to feed. It has a Middle Eastern flair, with a little sweetness and a little spice. I like to spoon it over Israeli couscous tossed with a bit of orange and…
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Meet Georgia Pellegrini, Girl Hunter
Let me clue you in on a little secret. A number of women, deep down, wish they could don sturdy boots, venture out into the woods, cock a gun and shoot their own dinner. It should come as no surprise in this D.I.Y. foodie era that girls — just like boys — can get bitten…
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Word Of The Day: Civet
If you've got game (and we know you do), then you can make civet. And by game, we mean the small, furry kind. You know, like rabbits. What, you don't hunt rabbits? How about hare? Duck? Well then how are you supposed to make this cute, fuzzy stew? In culinary terms, civet is a French…
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Hank Shaw And The Joys Of Foraging
Unlike Nova Kim, a self-described native-American wild crafter who gathers gourmet edibles for a living (and who was featured last week on Food Republic), Hank Shaw of Hunter Angler Gardener Cook doesn’t have a problem with the word forager. And though he has learned most of what he knows about gathering wild plants from native…
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Wusthof Hunting Knife Review
The Gadget: Wusthof 4-inch Folding Knife with Sheath for hunters and adventurous outdoor cooks Price: $69.99 The Story: Since your 10-inch chef's knife isn't easily portable to the outdoors, Wusthof, king of the German forged knives, has ingeniously come up with options for outdoorsy cooks and those who might be capturing and prepping their own…
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Hunting The Groundhog
Each week I’d arrive at the family farm in Pennsylvania to find less and less lettuce. It was as if the greens were growing backwards. One week they were there, the next week, they were not. When the beet tops and cauliflower disappeared I realized that in order to eat any salad this summer, I’d…
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Braised Groundhog Recipe
Time for a full disclosure. This is not the first groundhog I’ve eaten. As such, I’ve learned a few things along the way. Like, for instance, groundhogs have musk glands in their armpits. YOU MUST REMOVE THESE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO THROW UP FROM THE STINK OF BRAISED MUSK GLANDS AS THEY BOIL AWAY! If…
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