The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine: How I Spent a Year in the American Wild to Re-create a Feast from the Classic Recipes of French Master Chef Auguste Escoffier

ISBN: 0812988442

Author: Rinella, Steven

Condition: New

[A] warped, wonderful memoir (Mens Journal) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and host ofNetflixs MeatEater, about his quest to turn wild game into the meal of a lifetimeIf Jack Kerouac had hung out with Julia Child instead of Neal Cassady, this book might have been written fifty years ago.-The Wall Street JournalWhen outdoorsman, avid hunter, and nature writer Steven Rinella stumbles upon Auguste Escoffiers 1903 milestone Le Guide Culinaire, hes inspired to assemble an unusual feast: a forty-five-course meal born entirely of Escoffiers esoteric wild game recipes. Over the course of one unforgettable year, he steadily procures his ingredients-fishing for stingrays in Florida, hunting mountain goats in Alaska, flying to Michigan to obtain a fifteen-pound snapping turtle-and encountering one colorful character after another. And as he introduces his vegetarian girlfriend to a huntsmans lifestyle, Rinella must also come to terms with the loss of his lifelong mentor-his father.An absorbing account of one mans relationship with family, friends, food, and the natural world, The Scavengers Guide to Haute Cuisine is a rollicking tale of the American wild and its spoils.