In addition to being an expert chef known for working with wild game,Steven Rinellais an outdoorsman, writer, and television and podcast personality with an exceptional ability to communicate the hunting lifestyle to a wide variety of audiences. The host of the television show and podcastMeatEater,he is also the author of two volumes ofThe Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game;Meat Eater- Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter;American Buffalo- In Search of a Lost Icon;andThe Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine. His writing has appeared in many publications, includingOutside, Field & Stream, The New Yorker, Glamour, The New York Times, Men's Journal, Salon, O- The Oprah Magazine, Bowhunter,and the anthologiesBest American Travel WritingandBest Food Writing.
“It’s evident from Chapter 1 that we are in the hands of a
seriously experienced hunter-gatherer and writer. . . . Acutely
conveyed are the ways society is elbowing aside an age-old
practice, often bloody and brutal, and replacing it with practices
numbingly antiseptic and increasingly unreal. . . . Rinella’s
writing is unerringly smart, direct, and sharply detailed. . . .
Each of his small-bore narratives, whether it unfolds on Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula [or in] Montana, Alaska, Arizona, or Mexico,
bristles with the magic of a specific, authentic place.”—The Boston
Globe
“As Steven Rinella is quick to point out, the hunting story is the
oldest sort of story there is. Humans developed language, it is
commonly held, to tell them. When told properly, as they are in
Meat Eater, such stories are not simple gloats by the successful
hunter around the table, proudly chewing on the biggest portion of
meat and relishing the respect he has earned from his tribe by
bringing back the protein. Rather, they are stories of man’s
relationships with his fellow hunters, his family, the land and the
animals. The stories in Meat Eater are full of empathy and
intelligence.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Steven Rinella is one of the best nature writers of the last
decade. . . . This book was a page-turner.”—Tim Ferris
“Chances are, Steven Rinella’s life is very different from yours or
mine. He does not source his food at the local supermarket. Meat
Eater is a unique and valuable alternate view of where our food
comes from—and what can be involved. It’s a look both backward, at
the way things used to be, and forward, to a time when every diner
will truly understand what’s on the end of the fork.”—Anthony
Bourdain
“Meat Eater begins with a promise—‘This book has a hell of a lot
going for it, simply because it’s a hunting story’—and then
delivers ceaselessly, like a Domino’s guy with O.C.D. This is
survival of the most literate. . . . This—genuine passion, humbly
conveyed—is when nonfiction slaughters fiction and hangs it over
its mantel. The text is relentlessly vivid and clear. . . . What
Rinella does to prepare a muskrat trap when he’s in fifth grade
takes five more steps and is infinitely more loving than whatever I
did as a fifth grader to break in my baseball glove.”—The New York
Times Book Review
“Rinella is an astute observer, with an eye for delightfully
telling details.”—Paste
“An insider’s look at hunting that devotees and nonparticipants
alike should find fascinating.”—Kirkus Reviews
“If hunting has fewer participants and advocates than ever before,
Rinella is doing his best to reverse the trend.”—Booklist
“Woven into Rinella’s thoughtful prose detailing his outdoor
adventures (or misadventures, in some cases) are historical,
ecological, or technical observations dealing with the landscape,
the animals, or the manner in which the game is harvested. . .
. Rinella has a passion for hunting and wilderness that comes
across in his writing.”—Publishers Weekly
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