Books & Literature

Wild + Whole founder Danielle Prewett believes that every meal should tell a story, and that sustainable eating starts by reawakening our connection to food and relying on the seasons and the inherent rhythms of nature to guide our choices. In her debut cookbook, Wild + Whole, she shares the...

We are pleased to announce that The MeatEater Outdoor Cookbook: Wild Game Recipes for the Grill, Smoker, Campstove, and Campfire is now available! Check out an excerpt from the introduction below. “One summer, when I was nine or ten, my dad put me to work with a hammer and chisel removing the old...

I am beyond excited to share that my debut cookbook, Wild + Whole, is available for pre-order! With over 80 seasonal recipes for cooking with wild game and eating consciously, Wild + Whole celebrates a diversity of ingredients found in nature throughout any given point in the year. This book is one...

I’ll always remember the bookshelves. They rose from the floor to the ceiling in my parent’s old house, their spines gleamed in the light through the window. With the rustling of loose pages from haphazardly stacked volumes fluttering gently in the breeze of the air conditioning, they almost seemed...

We’re so excited to announce a new original audiobook that brings to life the bold, hair-raising, and often tragic adventures of a generation of eighteenth-century frontiersmen: The Long Hunters (1761-1775). This is the beginning of a big project, and this is only the first installment of MeatEater...

I’m not sure what it is about fly fishing that’s made it such fertile ground for reading and writing, but there’s something there, just beneath the water’s glassy surface. Despite fly fishing participation representing a small slice of the larger hunting and fishing world, books written about the...

Storytelling tends to feed off of itself. One person shares a harrowing tale, that tale jogs the memory of another storyteller, and the cycle goes on until the sun is rising and the stack of firewood is depleted. After the first batch of Campfire Stories became an instant New York Times bestseller...

The day we've all been waiting for is here: Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature is finally out and available for purchase. Raising healthy, well-rounded children comes with a lot of challenges these days. Screen time can overtake...

The whole point of the conservation movement is to keep our nation’s wild places and animals around long enough for our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren to enjoy them. Then, in turn, those generations would hopefully have the same plans for their own wild places, animals, and...

Tall tales. Yarns. Fish stories. Bullcrap. Whatever you call them, half-true or entirely fabricated stories have been favorites among hunters, probably since the first nomadic peoples started chasing animals with pointy sticks. The great thing about tall tales, and why they’ve stuck around so long...

This excerpt is from Steven Rinella’s “The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival.” You can preorder it online right now or find it in bookstores on December 1. A friend of mine used to work for a guiding company that ran extended mountain backpacking trips for high school students. Their...

Francis Macomber… was thirty-five years old, kept himself very fit, was good at court games, had a number of big-game fishing records, and had just shown himself, very publicly, to be a coward. Ernest Hemingway, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” In retrospect, it’s tough to blame poor...