Recipes

I’ve always held sandhill cranes in high esteem. Their alien, crooning caws are a comforting sound, and it’s easy to get lost in time observing their stalking gait amidst tall, wetland grasses. But in recent years, I began to hear more and more talk of the of the culinary merits of the famed “ribeye...

I got a chance to experience the sandhill crane migration in west Texas this season, and the intensity of their calls made me question whether I was hunting birds or dinosaurs. These giant cranes are known as “ribeye of the sky” because of their delicious breast meat. When we shot a couple over a...