Wild Gourmet: Naturally Healthy Game, Fish and Fowl Recipes for Everyday Chefs

This is an overall good cookbook, realistically I would give it a 3.5. The recipes are great for the most part and cover a wide array of game and range from pretty simple to more difficult. A little bit for everyone and a little bit for every occasion. That is its strong suit.Another excellent quality of this cookbook is that it's recipes are from many different chefs which allows you to get an idea of whether or not you like their style when looking at other cookbooks they have contributed to or written completely.The pictures however are super inconsistent in quality. Some, such as the cover, are well staged, taken, and edited, others look like they were taken on a flip phone, texted to an email address, printed out, then a copy was made on a xerox copier and that was used in the book. I am being dramatic but some of them are really disappointing. It was obviously some chefs just made it sort of threw it on a plate and snapped a photo while other took time. You may not care about pictures but that is a huge factor for me.I would still recommend this cookbook for anyone who is adding to a collection. If you are looking for one solid wildgame cookbook, looking to start a small collection, or looking for a gift there are better options out there.

One of the better game gourmet cookbooks I have encountered. There 86 pages with excellent photos of processing, preparation, and cuts for squirrel, rabbit, elk, fowl, and fish. And even a pull-out poster-sized venison meat chart. Although, someone needs to inform the authors that fowl does NOT always need to be skinned and quartered.While the book includes basic meals like elk pasties, spaghetti with meatballs, and teriyaki bear, it is a gourmet cookbook which contains plenty of recipes with French, Italian, Japanese, and other influences. However, none of these recipes are beyond even a moderately experienced home cook and none require hard to locate ingredients. With recipes provided by a collection of different chefs, you are sure to find something interesting that will agree with your tastes. Rack of squirrel, hickory cider glazed wild turkey, or grilled sturgeon perhaps?

The book is very informative for processing animals, and had recipes for the processed meat.I bought it because I managed to get my hands on some venison, but never cooked with it before. So, majority of the book didn’t work for my specific situation.I gave the book 5 stars; because, while it wasn’t useful to me, I could see it being useful for people who want to learn how to process their hunt. The directions were easy to follow, and had color pictures for clarity.

Bought this for a wedding gift. The bride and groom-to-be are avid hunters and enjoy cooking wild game. The book looks interesting and has a good assortment of recipes. As for me I have not tried the recipes because I don't eat wild game. The quality of the book itself is very good and has awesome pictures.

I gave this book to my daughter and future son-in-law for Christmas. They loved it! The pictures, how the recipes and book is organized, and variety of wild game recipes were some of the best features!

I'm an outdoor hunter/fisherman. I have all sorts of wild game to prepare and this cookbook was awesome with selections as well as recipe directions/short cuts etc. Awesome!

Many of the recipes are a little to "gourmet" for me... but there are a few of them that are wonderful. The pull out poster on the details of butchering a elk was very interesting to me

Definitely gourmet, nicely done though not recipes I'd likely ever use.

Fantastic book, I wish I bought it earlier.