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Summary: Awesome, intriguing, a whole new way to look at game.
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I have buddies on the Chesapeake Bay who hunt and cook wild game. Although I've enjoyed many a dinner at their tables (venison, goose, duck... all served with innumerable oysters), I still didn't know how I truly felt about the issue of hunting for food. The Nugents' book helped me over the hurdle by making a sensible, informed argument for enjoying wild game, and presenting it deliciously. The Coca-Cola Venison Stew is a must-try... tastes far better than it sounds! Great book.
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Summary: Chill Out!
Review: As an avid predator and self taught chef I think this book is a grand slam home run. If you do not like this book then you are a prima-donna hunter or a scavenger. Talking turkey is what hunting and gathering is all about. Kill it, dress it, chill it and eat it. Most meathheads have other people kill and prepare their animals. I call those people scavengers. Very much like the vulture. Predators, are those of us who collect our food ourselves and prepare it properly for the fabulous feast. This book is the ultimate interpretation of that process. From beginning to end the "Nugents" have teamed up to put everything into perspective. Having properly declared hunting a sacred event, they take you on a safari of the mind, soul and body. If you believe, as I do, that hunting is a lifestyle, not just a hobby, then this book is for you. On the other hand, if you are a yellow bellied sap sucker who brings their zip lock bags to the buffet line for early bird specials, don't waste your time trying to understand the real world. It is already too late for you. The Nugents talk straight from the soul and shoot even straighter. Their way of cooking is born out of respect for the animal and dignity for the hunt. It is a real pleasure to be invited into someones home through a book instead of a television. This is really a magical mystery tour of the senses. I have tried some of the formulas and have enjoyed the wholesome approach to killing it and grilling it. In a canned world filled with fast foods and fat people, exploring the alternatives should be mandatory in the school of life. On the other hand, the more people eating boffo bugers at dingy drive throughs, The less I have to deal with hobby hunters who kill a wonderful animal for a photograph. This book is boot camp for the beginners and food for thought for the experienced. This is not a cook book. It is a way of life...Refreshing, invigorating, stimulating, intriguing and exciting. You are what you eat. Try it...You'll like it!
It is time for me to go.....Hunting!
Happy Trails to You!
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Summary: Chill Out!
Review: As an avid predator and self taught chef I think this book is a grand slam home run. If you do not like this book then you are a prima-donna hunter or a scavenger. Talking turkey is what hunting and gathering is all about. Kill it, dress it, chill it and eat it. Most meathheads have other people kill and prepare their animals. I call those people scavengers. Very much like the vulture. Predators, are those of us who collect our food ourselves and prepare it properly for the fabulous feast. This book is the ultimate interpretation of that process. From beginning to end the "Nugents" have teamed up to put everything into perspective. Having properly declared hunting a sacred event, they take you on a safari of the mind, soul and body. If you believe, as I do, that hunting is a lifestyle, not just a hobby, then this book is for you. On the other hand, if you are a yellow bellied sap sucker who brings their zip lock bags to the buffet line for early bird specials, don't waste your time trying to understand the real world. It is already too late for you. The Nugents talk straight from the soul and shoot even straighter. Their way of cooking is born out of respect for the animal and dignity for the hunt. It is a real pleasure to be invited into someones home through a book instead of a television. This is really a magical mystery tour of the senses. I have tried some of the formulas and have enjoyed the wholesome approach to killing it and grilling it. In a canned world filled with fast foods and fat people, exploring the alternatives should be mandatory in the school of life. On the other hand, the more people eating boffo bugers at dingy drive throughs, The less I have to deal with hobby hunters who kill a wonderful animal for a photograph. This book is boot camp for the beginners and food for thought for the experienced. This is not a cook book. It is a way of life...Refreshing, invigorating, stimulating, intriguing and exciting. You are what you eat. Try it...You'll like it!
It is time for me to go.....Hunting!
Happy Trails to You!
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Summary: Really good
Review: As my husband loves to hunt wild boar and wild duck, I bought this book for him as a farce. However, it has turned out to be a great purchase. We both were at a loss as how to clean, store and cook wild game until "Kill It and Grill It" came along. This is the only cookbook I've bought that my husband hasn't complained about and it's an entertaining and "colorful" read as well.
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Summary: A Man's Cookbook
Review: As my husband loves to hunt wild boar and wild duck, I bought this book for him as a farce. However, it has turned out to be one of the best purchases I've made. We both were at a loss as how to clean, store and cook either until "Kill It and Grill It" came along. This is the only cookbook I've bought that my husband hasn't complained about. It is an entertaining read as well.
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Summary: I'm Goin' Lookin' For Some Bear!!!
Review: I bought this cookbook for three reasons. First, my effort to become a vegan met with predictable failure. No matter how I prepared my vegetarian dishes, they still tasted bland and made me feel like the grass-chewing cow I was constantly thinking about eating. Second, I liked the cover of Ted and his eye-pleasing wife Shemaine (coincidently, Shemaine is the name of one of my neighbor's poodles who my bulldog (Colonel) keeps harassing). Anyhow, I liked the cover of those two delightful carnivores posing with their tools of the trade. Lastly, I've been looking for a good game cookbook. I don't do a lot of hunting, but when I do I'm often perplexed about how to prepare the venison (I have yet to kill a bear or some of the more exotic animals for which this book has recipes; as a side note: I believe I can eliminate the duck problem in my backyard and also prepare a delicious dish for my neighbors with plenty of scraps for their new puppies). This great cookbook covers all the details you need for making a meal out the game you've dispatched and the recipes look delicious and fairly easy to follow. The writing style is a strange combination of puerile, amusing, and informative--and it works! I am very glad to have this cookbook in my kitchen and plan to put it to use the next time I put my hunting rifle to the test! Most Definitely Recommended. Hoppy Hunting!!
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Summary: Dog Eat Dog?!?
Review: I love this book! Except for the occasional foul language. This book caught my eye because I recently took up hunting again after hitting a deer with my Kia when driving to the supermarket to buy vegetarian food at the nattering of my now-ex-girlfriend. The irony seemed too much so, I elected to bring out my old .30 caliber shootin' iron from retirement. I had blasted six bambis by the time Ted's tome came out and have been immersed for the last two weeks regaling with Ted and his preposterously pulchritudinous wife Shemane in the joys of subduing and munching on nature's tastiest creatures! There are plenty of details on how to gut and prepare game for the cooking pot and your finest tableware. Ted also provides plenty of yummy and innovative recipes for freshly zapped wild boar, buffalo, pheasant, and (my favorite) venison. Gobble gobble yum yum!!! There are plenty of insights on hunting for the new shooter, but I found myself familiar with most. What I particularly enjoyed, and must admit was clueless on, was the nutritional information for various types of game. I like Ted and Shemane's philosophy very much on food, why buy it when you can kill it? Wince on liberal weenies and animal huggers. You are standing in the way of my dinner! That's how it was done 200 years ago and should continue today and in the permanent future. Bang bang, sizzle sizzle, yum yum!!! Go Ted GO!!!
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Since I have a freezer full of venison and limited knowledge of cooking it, "Kill It and Grill It" sounded just exactly like what I need. NOT SO! I did not like this book because it includes profanity and obscenities I am seventy years old, and this is the first "dirty" cook book I have ever seen. I was so excited to receive it from Amazon in a timely manner, couldn't wait to read it. I have read many real hunting adventures, and thought to enjoy that part also. The vulgar language and phrases found in the book prevented me from wanting to go beyond chapter two. At first I began marking out crude words with a marker, but it became too great a task. By chapter two I realized I had wasted my money on a poor piece of work that belongs in the trash, which is where I am putting it. I believe there are many folks like me who do not care for such crudity, and they have a right to know it is contained in this book.
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Summary: You won't find a recipe for free-range tofurkey in this book
Review: The Nugent family has not bought farm-raised meat, they claim, since 1969. Interesting fact. If you are a Nuge fan, and like his irreverant style, randy tongue and madman Attitude with a capital "A" and capital "TUDE", you will enjoy reading this book, even if your cooking is limited to grilling tube steaks on the Foreman grill in your urban pad.
As a cookbook, I think this book leaves something to be desired. The recipes are mundane, about what I have seen in most game cookbooks. None of the European game specialities I've learned to cook are here--too bad, as they are more interesting than the cream-of and stewed-that you find here. What's worse, though the Nugent website discusses the problem of the mad-cow like prion disease Deer Wasting Disease, and how it may be related to deer overpopulation due to under-harvesting (probably true), his cookbook does not mention this issue, serious to one's health. It has made me decide not to hunt, despite the overrun of game in our area that is positively a nuisance. My health is paramount. Mr. Nugent is a health nut himself, and his wife is a fitness instructor. What is their verdict on venison and health, other than to cook it with sour cream and make a stroganoff? The Nuge points out he eats Vegetarians (herbivores, I think he means.) If you eat a vegetarian, are you a vegetari-arian? Recommended for Nugent Fans only. Phish fans, stay OUT!
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Summary: Best Wild Game Cook Book
Review: The recipe's are great and the anecdotes provided by Ted and Shemane make this the most enjoyable cook book I've read. This is definitely not Julia Child.
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