The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook

I got this book for my brother, an active hunter and outdoorsman, for Christmas. He absolutely loves it. As a cook and book lover myself, I could see why - each recipe comes with a story, making the book much more personal and engaging. Even though I'm not a hunter I found myself wanting to try a number of the recipes, including the "camp" section of foods to make when you're on the trail.My brother also remarked that the book is obviously written with actual game and fish in mind - not just regular recipes reworked to replace "beef" with "venison." Game meats need special handling and this book reflects that need.Great gift for the outdoors person in your life!

Whether you ever cook or eat a bite of beaver or muskrat (I have done neither) this is a marvelous book for those who love the outdoors, especially "up north." My wife and I have had the immense good fortune of spending numerous weeks a year for a very long time in our hand-bulit log cabin completely off the grid in Northern Minnesota, where fish and game abound. We are not hunters but we are avid cooks. We also love the northern part of this planet.In our cabin The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook is known--and announced with appropriate chanting-- as "The Book of Angus," so called because its principal author is the charming Angus Cameron. His recipes--we have prepared a number of them--are spot on, but what really makes the book worth having are his commentaries and descriptions. Reading his recollections of times in a hunting camp or of tent camping treks across the Arctic and sub-Arctic almost--almost--makes me want to take up hunting. They certainly make me wish I had had a seat at his remote and primitive table.Every couple of years I take out "The Book of Angus"--this past summer was one of those occasions--and read, not his recipes, but his essays on game and fish cooking in the wild; and every time I am enchanted. His treatise on preparing breakfast for a hunting cabin full of people is as entertaining a thing as I have ever read.Our copy is well worn. We have purchased several more copies over the years, this purchase included, to give as gifts to very lucky people. If you know people who hunt or fish and who enjoy cooking this book is not just a must; it is a book of biblical proportions.

Cooking game is a different "kettle of fish" (sorry). Cooking wild game is a challenge and often results in wasted meals. This book by the author of the Pleasures of Cooking for One, Judith Jones. comes to the rescue. The recipes are easy to understand and more importantly, taste wonderful. The sections on how to dress game animals are some of the best I have ever seen. This is a perfect gift for any hunter or fisher person.

While the book was written in 1983 and the copy I received was used it was in great condition, to include the dust cover. You will enjoy same.

I love this book. Love it. Since I could walk I have spent a lot of my time hunting and fishing. I have also cooked everything I hunted and caught but it did not always taste great. The LL Bean Fish and Game Cookbook has realy helped my cooking and my enjoyment after the hunt. It has also helped me understand why dinner tastes good somtimes and not others. I like this book so much that I keep several coppies in my office to give as a gift. Whether beginer or the outdoorsman/woman who has everything this is a good addition to the operation. Don't be afraid to try the recipes. I have not been let down by any of them.

I purchased this book as a gift for a friend because I have had a copy for many years. If you want to cook wild game well this book will help. It also has great information about the game and the herbs and spices that are used. It is much more than just a very good cook book. It is a very good book that can be read.

I had originally purchased a paperback version of this book back in the early eighties when it first appeared in the LL Bean Catalog and am thrilled to have found this hardcover to replace my loss. The copy I received was in like-new condition just as the listing stated, the price was very reasonable, and it was shipped promptly. I am highly satisfied with my purchase.

Haven’t tried any of the recipes yet but they look tasty. Kind of an older cookbook, I’m sure they have newer models

Perfect game cookbook, has recipes for pretty much everything you'd consider eating and a couple more. Includes tips on everything from skinning and field dressing to aging the meat and making your own marinades and sauces. Tons more. It was much more than I expected and I was told it was one of the best game cookbooks there is, if not the best.

What a stonker of a book! From the sharp-toothed pike to the massive bear or musk ox, Angus Cameron (the publicity-shy author) takes you and your taste buds on a roller-coaster of North American edible wildlife. And what a ride! Caribou, raccoon, muskrat, squirrel, every sort of bird large and small (as long as it's legal to shoot it). He regrets the scarcity of wild boar (except in Tennessee) and defies the reader to fillet a shad without expert help. Best of all are the recipes that begin: a beaver weighs in a 35 lb undressed: you want on ready for the oven at 6 - 8 lbs. And do you know what? After reading the LL Bean book, you do! Never mind that the myriad ways of cooking a Noah's Ark of animal, fish and fowl boil down (pardon the mixed metaphor) to roasting, braising, broiling or boiling. Mr Cameron and his recipe providers seem very fond of huge quantities of dry vermouth, nutmeg and cream, cream cream. I imagine us city dwellers expect to all convert to roast squirrel - not too far a leap for those already affl;uent (and lucky) enough to get hold of grouse . . .

Although the prospect of eating elk and pheasant and freshly caught fish outdoors in a camp environment is attractive, I live in a large city overseas, and love this book for its inspirational treatment of a wide variety of game, fish, and fowl, plus some nicely basic scone recipies and accompaniment grains and vegetables. Tough, gamey mutton? Perhaps the brandy marinate for elk (pg 62) will help. If chicken, chicken and more chicken is the only thing "safe" in the shops but getting mightily boring, try adapting squirrel stew with black olives (pg 111), or rabbit with ham in wine (pg 112), If you are faced with intrangient snobs, knowing "Grilled Grouse Stuffed with Oysters a la Rockefeller" (pg 155) may be balm to your soul. But my main reason for buying this book was, in one word, FISH. Without the recepies in this book, I would be stuck on fish fingers or plain pan-fried fragile slabs of dissatisfaction. Asparagus and cream sauce, beer batter, anchovy-mustard sauce with sour cream, celery stuffing.. and for leftover fish, making fish cakes, terrine and other previously unimagined variations is well worth the cost of the book. And if snack or dessert treats are needed, treacle bannock made on a stovetop griddle will keep me on the healthy straight-and-narrow.

Lot of good old recipes. A great reference for game and Fish cooking

Great insight into outdoor survival. Great recipes.