Wild Game Cookery: The Hunter's Home Companion

Now completely revised and updated, Carol Vance's classic guide to wild foods offers delicious new ideas for the hunter, fisher, forager, and adventurous cook. This new combined and expanded edition of Carol Vance's two bestselling cookbooks, Wild Game Cookery and Fish and Fowl Cookery, includes everything you need to know to bring your game from field to table. Let her be your guide to all manner of wild food, including: Stuffed steelhead trout and Lake Erie coho salmon steaks; Quail with wild rice, whole barbecued wild turkey, and grilled duck breasts Venison sausage, barbecued bear, and moose stew; Fiddlehead soup, dandelion salad, and wild scuppernong jelly. Vance is a knowledgeable guide to the special cooking requirements of wild game. In addition, she provides easy, appealing recipes for little-known but commonly available wild greens and edibles. There are comprehensive instructions on making homemade sausage and smoking fish, and tips on the safe field preparation and handling of wild game. Over 15,000 copies of Wild Game Cookery have been sold.

Carol Vance is an educator, outdoor writer, and columnist. An avid outdoorswoman and cook, she has more than 30 years experience in the preparation of wild foods. She lives in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania.