An Unofficial 'The MeatEater Podcast' Reading List

Ep. 013

July 09, 2015

Description

Anchorage, AK. Steven Rinella joins Danny Rinella, Brandt Meixell, Janis Putelis, and Mike Washlesky for a conversation about preserving wild game. Subjects discussed: smoking, pickling, canning,...
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Books Referenced

Snow Leopard

Author: Peter Matthiessen

Context:

Steve mentions that many people know Peter Matthiessen through his book 'Snow Leopard' while discussing another book Matthiessen wrote about musk ox on Nunivak Island that Steve was reading on his way to Alaska.

Oomingmak: The Expedition to the Musk Ox Island in the Bering Sea

Author: Peter Matthiessen

Context:

Steve references a book Matthiessen wrote in the sixties about musk ox on Nunivak Island. He was reading a passage from it at the airport about Anchorage in 1964. The specific title is not mentioned, but it's clearly a book about musk ox hunting/observation in Alaska.

Charcuterie

Author: Michael Ruhlman

Context:

Referenced multiple times as 'Ruleman's book Charcuterie' which Steve describes as 'the Bible on all things cured and dried meat' and later as 'the best sausage making book out there.' Steve mentions he's made recipes from it using wild game and spoke with the author about it.

L L Bean cookbook

Author: Angus Cameron and Judith Jones

Context:

Mentioned as 'probably the number one selling wild game book of all times' in a discussion about how wild game cookbooks organize recipes by species rather than by cut of meat, which Steve disagrees with as an approach.