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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

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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.

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!