num_pages: 256
description: What happens when a classically-trained New York chef and fearless omnivore heads out of the city and into the wild to track down the ingredients for her meals? After abandoning Wall Street to embrace her lifelong love of cooking Georgia Pellegrini comes face to face with her first kill. From honoring that first turkey to realizing that the only way we truly know where our meat comes from is if we hunt it ourselves Pellegrini embarks on a wild ride into the real world of local organic and sustainable food. Teaming up with veteran hunters she travels over field and stream in search of the main coursefrom quail to venison and wild boar from elk to javelina and squirrel. Pellegrinis road trip careens from the back of an ATV chasing wild hogs along the banks of the Mississippi to a dove hunt with beer and barbeque to the birthplace of the Delta Blues. Along the way she meets an array of unexpected charactersfrom the Commish a venerated lifelong hunter to the lawyer-by day duck-hunting-Bayou-philosopher at dawnwho offer surprising lessons about food and life. Pellegrini also discovers the dangerous underbelly of hunting when an outing turns illegaland dangerous. More than a food-laden hunting narrative Girl Hunter also teaches you how to be a self-sufficient eater. Each chapter offers recipes for finger-licking dishes Each dish like each story is an adventure from beginning to end. An inspiring illuminating and often funny journey into unexplored territories of haute cuisine  Girl Hunter captures the joy of rolling up your sleeves and getting to the heart of where the food you eat comes from.
language: English
title: Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time
publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books