must read monday

In light of the amazing feedback I got from last week’s recipe post (thank you!!), today’s must read monday isn’t really a novel so much as it is a cookbook filled with delicious recipes and instructions for cleaning fish and game. As much as I would like to think I come up with my recipes on the fly, I have to admit I get the inspiration from all over. That is where Afield: A Chef’s Guide to Cooking and Preparing Wild Game and Fish, by Jesse Griffiths, comes in. Along with dozens of amazing recipes that I am dying to try, there are also a medley of stories at the start of each section that highlight hunts of the chapters’ topic game/fish that keep the book anecdotal. If you’re wondering what to do with all that game in your freezer, or are looking for an excuse to go fishing and catch dinner, Afield is a great place to start!

“Jesse Griffiths knows what’s important about food…that it’s fresh, local and allowed to speak for itself. He’s an old school chef with deep respect for the land, his farmers and purveyors and the food they produce and it shows through his cooking.”
        — Dave Pasternack aka “The Fish Whisperer,” according to the New York Times; author of A Young Man and the Sea

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