Game on the Grill: The Art of Barbecuing, Grilling, and Smoking Wild Game (Fish and Game Kitchen) [Hardcover]

Eileen Clarke (Author)

Book Description

Series: Fish and Game Kitchen | Publication Date: March 2001

"Game On the Grill," the fifth volume in our hugely popular "The Fish and Game Kitchen" series, is the first cookbook exclusively devoted to the outdoor cooking of game. It's packed with 75 tempting, tantalizing, easy-to-follow recipes for barbecuing, grilling, and smoking big game, upland birds, and waterfowl.

Along with the recipes, Eileen Clarke offers extensive advice on the basics of outdoor cooking, cooking devices and how to make them more versatile, caring for game in the field, and how to determine cooking temperatures.

Includes such mouth-watering recipes as: * Venison Rolls * Melt-in-Your-Mouth Smoked Meatloaf * Kansas City-Style Barbecued Elk Ribs * Quick Raspberry Pheasant * Smothered Quail with Black Walnut Sauce * Slow-Smoked Duck in Maple Ginger Glaze * Homemade Venison Hot Dogs * Mesquite-Smoked Twelve-Hour Fajita Jerky

Also Recommended: "The Art of Wild Game Cooking," "The Venison Cookbook," "The Freshwater Fish Cookbook," "Classic Freshwater Fish Cooking."

Editorial Reviews

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Cooks seeking out meats to accompany exotic fruits and vegetables can haul out their grills and choose from a host of wonderful recipes in Game on the Grill. Although Americans' ancestors foraged most of their diets' protein through hunting, urbanization and the growth of mechanized agriculture have severly restricted the opportunity to hunt one's own meat. Venison, pheasant, antelope, and wild duck have become alien to most palates. Eileen Clarke has set herself to demonstrate that cooking game need not be daunting nor require a fund of arcane knowledge to conquer its reputed complexities. To that end, Clarke opens her cookbook with her own "top 10" list of myths about preparing and cooking game. She debunks the inevitability of wild meat's gaminess, toughness, and susceptibility to spoilage. Then she goes on to present simple, usable recipes on the order of game steak with blue cheese-almond crust and the delightfully named "bou-bous," shish kebabs of cubed-carobou meat. A hunter herself, Clarke 's text speaks from firsthand experience. Mark Knoblauch
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Review

"Eileen Clarke's elegantly simple recipes and practical advice will transform the hunter's backyard barbecue from auto-da-fé to altar." -- Bruce Buck, "Shooting Sportsman Magazine."

"For years I've seen Eileen Clarke shoot it, butcher it, and cook it, and then I've eaten way too much of it. -- David Petzal, Executive Editor, "Field &Stream."

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN) (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896583449
• ISBN-13: 978-0896583443
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,569,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully illustrated, specialty cookbook, June 7, 2001

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This review is from: Game on the Grill: The Art of Barbecuing, Grilling, and Smoking Wild Game (Fish and Game Kitchen) (Hardcover)

Eileen Clarke's Game On The Grill is a beautifully illustrated, specialty cookbook focusing entirely on the outdoor cooking of game. This superbly produced compendium of seventy-five mouth-watering recipes covers a variety of dishes for barbecued, grilled, and smoked game animals, upland birds, and waterfowl. From No-Brainer Frozen Whitetail Roast; Spice-Crusted Elk Steaks; and Butterflied Leg of Veal; to Alder-Smoked Turkey Salad; Spring-Cleaning Goose with Smoked Garlic Bread; and Glazed Duck Legs, Game On The Grill will quickly become a favored and indispensable culinary reference for the family table meals or hunting trip campfire dining.