Hunter Angler Gardener Cook

Here's some information about the author, Hank Shaw, in his own words:

"My name is Hank Shaw. I write. I fish. I dig earth, forage, raise plants, live for food and kill wild animals. I drink bourbon, Barolo or Budweiser with equal relish and wish I owned a farm, or at least a large swath of land I could play on. I spend my days thinking about new ways to cook and eat anything that walks, flies, swims, crawls, skitters, jumps - or grows. I am the omnivore who has solved his dilemma. This is my story.

Honest food is what I'm seeking. Nothing packaged, nothing in a box, nothing wrapped in plastic. I eat meat, and I'm not keen on factory farms, so I either hunt it myself or buy it from real people who raise animals humanely. Other than pork fat for charcuterie and the occasional hog jowl, I have not bought meat or fish for our home since 2005. I am a constant forager, gardener and fan of farmer's markets, and eating locally and making good food from scratch is what I do. Seasonality rules my diet: In winter, I would rather eat a well-cooked turnip than asparagus from Chile.

I am especially interested in those meats and veggies that people don't eat much any more, like pigeons or shad or cardoons. I have nothing against good grass-fed beef or a head of lettuce, it's just that others are doing just fine writing about those foods. I'm trying to walk a less-traveled path.

Who the hell am I? I am a former line cook, I've caught fish and dug clams for a living and, after 19 years as a political reporter for newspapers ranging from New York to Virginia to Wisconsin, Minnesota and California, I now pay the bills writing about food, fishing, foraging and hunting. On occasion, I also cater events around Northern California and am periodically an instructor in the Journalism Department at Sacramento State University.

As a food writer, my work has been published in Food & Wine, Organic Gardening, The Art of Eating, Field and Stream, Gastronomica, Meatpaper, Edible Sacramento, the Stockton (CA) Record, Delta Waterfowl Magazine and several other publications. I was written up in the March 2009 issue of Field & Stream magazine for my wild game cookery, which was an honor.

I am the author of Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast, released in May by Rodale Books. My hope is that the book will help open the world of foraging, hunting and fishing to those interested in food, but who may have never hunted mushrooms or picked up a gun or cast a rod and reel before. It is also my hope that hunters who want to expand their skills to foraging, or anglers who want to hunt, or foragers who want to fish, will find value in this book.

Until 2009 I also ran the Fish & Seafood Cooking site on About(dot)com, a sort of living encyclopedia owned by the New York Times. That's where you will find most of my original thoughts on fish and seafood, although when it comes to the catching you'll still find it here."

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