How to Cook Bear Meat in Bear Fat

How to Cook With Caul Fat

When field dressing a deer, you may notice a sheer, lacy net covering the stomach. Don’t mistake this as something to be left in the gut pile. It’s a web of valuable fat that can be used to wrap around meat to impart flavor, juice and shape. Caul fat, sometimes referred to as lace fat, is a delicate, thin membrane of connective tissue with fat deposits embedded in it. This thin membrane covers the stomach in the abdominal cavity found in deer...

How to Cook Diver Ducks

Diver ducks, migratory waterfowl that feed on fish, mollusks, and aquatic invertebrates, get a lot of praise on the wing but a bad rap at the table. Despite this reputation, hunters sure shoot a hell of a lot of them each season. According to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the take of shovelers, scaup, ring-necked ducks, eiders, oldsquaw, scoters, buffleheads, goldeneyes, mergansers, and canvasbacks is well beyond a million birds annually...

How to Cook Fish Over Fire

Anthropologists estimate that humans conquered fire about 400,000 years ago. That event likely predated even the development of language, but I have to imagine those contemporary humans appreciated the benefits that flames added to their meat and fish—even if they couldn’t articulate it. Even today, it’s hard to describe the distinct satisfaction that comes from cooking over fire. I grew up around campfires, and cooking over them has become...