It took most of a year but the freezer full of wild game was worth it. That is until a frozen goose fell out onto my wife’s foot. Promptly thereafter, I had a pile of game on my kitchen counter that needed sorting. Looking it over, I was proud of my accomplishment. I had...
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(GH: Long before “locavore” was a word, Northwesterners have harvested the local bounty by hunting for it. Here’s a link to a recent radio story produced by The Northwest News Network and broadcast on Northwest Public Radio): Every five years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service counts how many Americans hunt. That number has...
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Back in 1942, the famous and often funny food writer M.F.K. Fisher wrote a book called How to Cook a Wolf. She meant it metaphorically, the wolf as a symbol for the World War that was raging and the food shortages created by that conflict. How to Cook a Wolf was a book about making...
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Many fear that Idaho's relatively new domestic elk industry could threaten the region's wild herds with disease and genetic impurity. And that begs the philosophical question: Where should we draw the line between the forest and the farm?
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