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

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  • Gluten-Free Girl

    I bet you’ve never read another food memoir that has recipes for coot legs in sherry, quail kebabs, or braised javelina haunch. Then again, you’ve never read another book like Girl Hunter.

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  • Kirkus Reviews

    A bubbly combination hunting memoir and how-to guide, with some stellar recipes.

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  • RecipeGirl

    I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book...really makes you think about where your food comes from...Her passion comes through in her writing. It reads like a great novel that I found hard to put down.

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  • ISBN 10 0738216054
  • ISBN 13 9780738216058
  • Published Dec 27 2012
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 256
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher The Perseus Books Group
  • Imprint Da Capo Lifelong

Publishers Text

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 trav-els 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 Hunter"also teaches you how to be a self-sufficient eater. Each chapter offers recipes for finger-licking dishes like: wild turkey and oyster stewstuffed quailpheasant taginevenison sausagefundamental stocks, brines, sauces, and rubssuggestions for interchanging proteins within each recipeEach dish, like each story, is an adventure from begin-ning to end. An inspiring, illuminating, and often funny jour-ney 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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