As I look ahead to the new year, I am very excited. I have a lot of projects and activities in store, but mostly I'm excited that for the next month I don't have any plane tickets booked. I am going to sit on my couch, probably in my pajamas and write my book. Oh…
“The Feast of the Seven Fishes” is an Italian American tradition celebrated on Christmas Eve to commemorate the wait for the midnight birth of Jesus. Seven kinds of seafood are served, though you'll often find many more than seven varieties on the table I sit at.It has always been one of my favorite nights of…
One of the questions I get most often from interviewers is "what is your favorite wild animal dish?"I always describe this one.From the first moment I tasted it, it earned itself a special place in the crevices of my mind.This is a whole wild hog, marinated for days and then smoked for many hours.There is…
Here is one of my favorite deer camps in all of the universe. The walls are made of wood siding of old houses that have been torn down and the wood reused.And there is a deer antler chandelier.To see pictures of years past check out: Deer Hunting I, Deer Hunting III, Deer Hunting IV, Deer…
There are two kinds of hog hunting. Just about a week ago, I unwittingly did both in one day.I was on a golf cart, on the way to a deer hunt, with my rubber clad feet up, taking in the scenery.I had my diet coke already cracked open and my hunting partner had peanuts in…
I just had a little gingerbread house making party. I need to work on my icing. But I got to thinking, while I was washing my sticky hands, that since I haven't been madly posting Christmas recipes this year, I thought I'd share some inspiration from the past.Easy Christmas Cookies - So many possibilities with…
There something about campfire eating.Maybe it's the coziness or the color. Maybe it's the flavor the wood and smoke impart on the food.I just took a trip to Arkansas and we did quite a lot of campfire eating.The very first thing I ate when I arrived were those things in the shovel. Can you see…
I've been getting a lot of inquiries about how one can get a signed copy of "Food Heroes," since I didn't make it to every book store in the country on my book tour this year. Well here is the answer!If you'd like a signed copy of my book, simply email me at: georgia at…
This is one of the many food items I made out of the gizzards and hearts and liver and legs from my New Orleans duck hunt. It is called a terrine, a Wild Duck Terrine.A terrine is a piece of architecture which takes several days of work. There are many components that go into it…