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Central California Cottontails with a .22 cal Crosman Pellet Gun
Cork Graham with a freshly taken Sylvilagus audubonii, using a .22 Crosman pellet gun Whenever a rerun of Spy Game is broadcast, I always smile when I hear Brad Pitt’s answer to Robert Redford’s...
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On the Track of Wily Wild Boar Babi Guling
Two rounds of Winchester .300 Win Mag ETip on Babi Guling Back when I was a 20-year-old combat photographer, still fresh to my freedom from a Vietnamese reeducation prison, recruited and being...
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The River Cottage MEAT Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall [BOOK REVIEW]
Spice-rubbed wild boar ready to become Babi Guling! No matter how you cut it, there is a reason that vegetarians suffer from a number of ailments, not the least of which is a deficiency in vitamin...
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Roast Specklebelly Goose and Fig Sauce
Hung for two days in the garage and sitting in the bottom of my freezer for the last three years, I was wondering if the goose was still good. One of a snow and specklebelly pair that I had taken in...
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Julia Child’s “Ours Bourguignon” (Bear Bourguignon)
In 1943, while working for the OSS in London, Julia McWilliams was introduced, by her boss “Wild Bill” Donovan, to James Corbett, a spitfire pilot in the RCAF. It would become a longtime friendship...
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Bun Thit Nai Nuong Xa (Vietnamese Lemon Grass BBQ Venison Noodle Salad) [Recipe]
Vietnam holds my first memories, some of them horrific: the bloodiest days of 1968’s “Little Tet” Offensive in May, marked in my mind by a US Army chopper firing rockets into a Vietcong machine gun...
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THE GAME COOKBOOK by Clarissa Dickson Wright & Johnny Scott [Book Review]
If you remember the British cooking series, Two Fat Ladies, of PBS and BBC fame, you’ll immediately recognize Clarissa Dickson Wright as the taller of the two, not the proud chainsmoker who passed...
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Cambodian Honey Marinade Bear Steaks
Don’t eat anything with a face a mother could love. You’d think this phrase was only the slogan of the vegetarian, but I can almost hear the bane to sound wildlife conservation rear its ugly head even...
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Bear and Venison Bun Cha Hanoi on the Red Boat
When I first read about Red Boat on Ravenous Couples website, I was intrigued. I remembered fondly from my childhood in Saigon the pure fish sauce (nuoc mam) that was exported from the island of...
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CORK’S OUTDOORS COMPETES ON FINNISH TV’S “AMERICAN FOOD BATTLE”
California draws visitors from all over the world. Some come for the wine. Others come for the sun. Many come to see what has been described by such literary luminaries as Jack London and John...
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