Black Ducks by Richard D. Benson courtesy of South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.

P.J. O’Rourke, satirist, writer extraordinaire, and our longtime friend and hunting buddy, first dubbed me “Martha Stewart with a shotgun” when he wrote a blurb for the back cover of my Eat Like A Wild Man: The Ultimate Game And Fish Cookbook.

Right Place, Wrong Time by Scot Storm courtesy of courtesy of Scot Storm and Wild Wings.

I took it pretty much as a compliment, but I hadn’t really thought of myself as a Martha Stewart, nor was I sure it was my preferred comparison—except it noted that I had a shotgun. It was true. By 1997 when “Eat” was published, I’d worked hard on making hunting part of my life and my style. Learning a hunter’s traditions in the fine and culinary arts, the literature, and, of course, through the pages of our Gray’s Sporting Journal, I’d garnered a persona which did kind of project a distinctive style: a wife, a mother, a hostess who spent the down time in a duck blind imagining new and exciting ways to cook the black duck she was about (she hoped) to shoot.

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