Ari LeVaux

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Savage Hearth

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Image Credit: Jay Nel-McIntosh   The Flavor of Fire In the rain-washed air above Red Eagle Campground, vibrations of rock ’n roll power chords mingled with the fragrant smoke of a three-day buffalo feast, as clouds clung to the surrounding mountains at the headwaters of North America. On the ground,…

Meat Head

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Any time you can see or hear an elk, it’s an opportunity to learn.  And when you’re a hunter, every moment spent learning about your prey is a moment spent hunting. You pay dues like this eagerly if you want to fill your freezer with a year’s supply of clean, lean animal protein.

Mystery Meat, solved

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At a family gathering last summer, my wife’s mom asked me to cook some meat from a deer that my father-in-law had shot. It was his first, and nobody seemed to know exactly what to do with it. The flesh of said deer resided in a cache of unlabeled Ziplocs in a chest freezer in the basement.