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Wild About Game: 150 Recipes for Cooking Farm-Raised and Wild Game - from Alligator and Antelope to Venison and Wild Turkey [Hardcover]

Janie Hibler (Author)
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October 13, 1998
From Seattle to New York, from Missoula to Miami, game is appearing on many restaurant menus and gracing more and more tables at home.  Why? Because game, whether buffalo or boar, partridge or pigeon, is a delicious, low-fat, nutritionally impressive, and versatile alternative to more traditional meats.  And since so much game is now farm-raised, it's tender and flavorful, and, best of all, readily available in butcher shops and grocery stores everywhere.

Clearly, the time is right for Wild About Game, a comprehensive, updated cookbook by a nationally recognized expert in cooking game.  In this groundbreaking book, Janie Hibler offers detailed information, helpful techniques, and contemporary recipes for wild and farm-raised game.  The 150 recipes range from simple dishes--Buffalo Burgers and Roast Muscovy Duck with Persimmons and Figs--to sophisticated ones--Venison Osso Buco and Ostrich Satay.

Wild About Game is divided into chapters by the types of game--birds, large game, and small and exotic game.  Each begins with an explanation of each type of animal--wild and farm-raised--including what they eat, how and where to buy their meat, and the best cooking method for each cut.  Then comes the best part--the recipes.  Some are for farmed game, while others are innovative twists on wild game dishes that Hibler has been cooking for more than thirty years.  And if you're hankering to make a recipe, but have no game, Hibler offers suggestions for non-game substitutions, such as Cornish hens for squab or pork tenderloin for venison.  Other sections include recipes for smoking game, marinades and rubs, sauces, and side dishes.

Color photographs of favorite dishes and archival photographs and etchings are included along with a list of nutritional data for each type of game, an unusual American game timeline, and an extensive resource list for game that can be delivered to your doorstep.  Try just one recipe from Wild About Game, and you'll soon be wild about game yourself.

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With growing interest in game as a source of red meat often lower in cholesterol than that of standard cattle, the need for some serious guides to cooking these nonstandard foods becomes all the more important. Elk, which used to be available only to hunters, is now farmed in New Zealand and imported into the U.S. And virtually everyone has seen both buffalo and ostrich offered for sale in supermarkets. Most of these meats require special handling, since they can't always be cooked just the same as beef. Hibler offers good advice on how to make the best of a boar chop or a loin of antelope. Side dishes that complement game's stronger flavors receive careful attention, and the buttermilk mashed potatoes seasoned with chives would fit well on any dinner table. Libraries near hunting areas will especially profit from this book's helpful information on all manner of wild game. Mark Knoblauch

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"Janie Hibler has been cooking the fish and game her husband has been bringing home for the last thirty-two years.  She is a fine home cook who makes anything that swims, flies, or runs taste delicious.  With detailed information on what to buy, where to buy it, and how to cook it, Wild About Game is the only game in town."
--Marion Cunningham, author of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook

"In recipes singing with simplicity, savvy, and sophistication, Janie Hibler leads us out of the woods in cooking game, both wild and farm-raised.  Through stories and lore as well as dishes, she teaches home cooks to treasure America's natural bounty, giving us all reason to be Wild About Game."

--Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison, authors of Born to Grill

"In Wild About Game Janie has captured the flavor of the cookery as well as the rich culture and history of these foods, which link us to our ancient roots.  The recipes, text, photos, and illustrations weave a wonderful web to ensnare any curious cook."

--Greg Higgins, Chef/Owner, Higgins Restaurant and Bar

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Broadway; 1 edition (October 13, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0767901525
  • ISBN-13: 978-0767901529
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #667,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Award-winning cookbook author, cooking teacher, and frequent magazine contributor, Janie Hibler, was a founder of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and served as president from 1999-2000. She was also a founding member of the Portland Culinary Alliance and served as its first president.

Her published cookbooks include Wild About Game (Broadway Books, 1998), winner of the James Beard Foundation Award, Best Book Single Subject 1999, Dungeness Crabs and Blackberry Cobblers (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), a 1992 James Beard Awards Nominee, Fair Game (Irena Chalmers, Inc., 1983), a 1984 Tastemaker Awards Nominee, and The Berry Bible (William Morrow, 2004 and AmazonEncore, 2010), a 2005 James Beard Foundation Award Nominee.

She was selected as Fiale des Etats Unis (Woman of the Year) in 2006 by the Academie Culinaire de France, the American chapter of French Master Chefs.

In 1996 she helped update the game chapter in the newly revised Joy of Cooking. Among the magazines for which Janie has written are Gourmet, Food and Wine, Ladies Home Journal, Bon Appetit, Woman's Day, Sunset, The Oregon Magazine, Northwest Palate, Cuisine, Fine Cooking, Cooking Light, Country Living, Mix and Every Day With Rachael Ray.

Janie has taught and lectured extensively on game cooking and the food of her native Pacific Northwest. Having been director of the Kitchen Kaboodle Cooking School and the Discriminating Palate, she has since conducted cooking classes in Portland, Seattle, San Juan Island, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston, and has appeared on television in New York, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Connecticut, Seattle and Portland. In 1992 she was a selected speaker in a program titled, "Cook America: Our Culinary Heritage," at the Smithsonian Institute. In 1995 and 1998 she was hired by the state of Oregon to orchestrate a dinner at the James Beard House to showcase the food and wine from the Pacific Northwest.

She has been a spokesperson for the Oregon-Agri-Business Council, and since its inception, an active committee member working to establish a year-round Portland public market. Janie has recently been appointed by the Director of the Oregon Department of Agriculture to serve as the Public Member on the Oregon Raspberry and Blackberry Commission.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars This cookbook-reference book belongs in every complete culin, December 9, 1998
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I am not a hunter. I won't even step on a spider, and open windows to let flies out. But as a food writer I am a big fan of game - both wild and farm-raised. Just don't ask me to catch my own. The new book, "Wild About Game" by Janie Hibler, is a cookbook plus more. Between the classy covers Hibler has produced a veritable treatise on game: how it is raised; information for each species on handling, seasoning, and best preparation tchniques; a varied group of both traditional and 90's recipes; nutrition data and mail-order game sources. What else does one ask from a cookbook? Recipes such as "slow-roasted duckling with red currant sauce", "venison with mustard-pepper marinade", and "pheasant with herb dumplings and chanterelles" are as comfortable for the home kitchen as in any five-star bistro. Just as nice as the recipes are the photos, historical prints and drawings, and petroglyphs that illustrate "Wild About Game". This reference-cookbook belongs in any complete culinary library.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable cook book on cooking wild game. MUST HAVE!, January 7, 2012
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I have had this book for 3 years now and I refer to it all the time. Every single recipe that I have cooked from this book is very very good. We have made about 3 of her different sausage recipes and found them excellent. My husband is a hunter so I am always running to the book shelf to look up this or that about what he drags home. If you cook wild game you NEED this book. Get it now! Thank you Janie!
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game sausage, smoked game, game stock, chipotle mayonnaise, stuffer spout, birds dry inside, bull fries, sauté until the onion starts, cups homemade chicken stock, cup homemade chicken stock, best cooking method, caramelized bits, pat the birds, meaty bacon, teaspoon coarse salt, second sausage, venison recipe, first sausage, chile honey, ing undone, exotic game, pat the meat, process until finely ground, rabbit pieces
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