Borderlands: Recipes and Stories from the Rio Grande to the Pacific

A creative, culinary road map for easy-to-follow borderlands cuisine from James Beard Award–winning author Hank Shaw of Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.

After 5 widely successful cookbooks featuring all things wild food, hunting, fishing and foraging, James Beard Award-Winning Chef and Author, Hank Shaw, heads for the border with his new book, Borderlands. Borderlands transports you to this region with more than 125 recipes and nearly 300 photographs from every area along our shared border. Shaw's approachable recipes include tried-and-true standards like Fish Tacos, Chimichangas, and Carne Asada, unusual border specialties like Discada, Mollejas and Empalmes, vegetarian standouts like Caldo de Queso, Cactus Salad, Nopales Navegantes, and Mushroom Tacos, and deeply personal dishes like the Death Bed Taco, a life-changing taco made for him by a dear friend on his birthday years ago.

It also features an array of wild food recipes and techniques for using the surprisingly rich natural bounty of the borderlands, from mesquite to wild greens to native pine nuts, Texas ebony, cholla, and beyond. Hunters and anglers will love how prominently game features in border cuisine, and the book includes visual icons to help cooks mix and match various types of wild and domesticated meat, fish, and fowl.

A former chef, journalist, and sometimes commercial fisherman, Hank Shaw is also author of the award-winning cookbooks Hunt Gather Cook; Duck Duck Goose; Buck Buck Moose; Pheasant, Quail, Cottontail; and most recently Hook, Line, and Supper. Shaw also runs the James Beard Award-winning website Hunter Angler Gardener Cook (huntgathercook.com), and the Substack To the Bone, where he writes about the intersection of food, nature and larger life. He has been featured on numerous television shows, and was consulting editor for the fish and game sections of the 2019 edition of The Joy of Cooking. His work has appeared in Food & Wine, Organic Gardening, Field & Stream, Garden & Gun, and Outdoor Life. He fishes, forages, hunts and cooks in St. Paul, Minnesota. He can be reached at hank@huntgathercook.com.