Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

Steven Rinella

Sep 2012 · Sold by Random House

About this ebook

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and host of Netflix’s MeatEater comes “a unique and valuable alternate view of where our food comes from” (Anthony Bourdain).

“Revelatory . . . With every chapter, you get a history lesson, a hunting lesson, a nature lesson, and a cooking lesson. . . . Meat Eater offers an overabundance to savor.”—The New York Times Book Review

Meat Eater chronicles Steven Rinella’s lifelong relationship with nature and hunting through the lens of ten hunts, beginning when he was an aspiring mountain man at age ten and ending as a thirty-seven-year-old Brooklyn father who hunts in the remotest corners of North America. He tells of having a struggling career as a fur trapper just as fur prices were falling; of a dalliance with catch-and-release steelhead fishing; of canoeing in the Missouri Breaks in search of mule deer just as the Missouri River was freezing up one November; and of hunting the elusive Dall sheep in the glaciated mountains of Alaska.
 
A thrilling storyteller, Rinella grapples with themes such as the role of the hunter in shaping America, the vanishing frontier, the ethics of killing, and the disappearance of the hunter himself as consumers lose their connection with the way their food finds its way to their tables. The result is a loving portrait of a way of life that is part of who we are—as humans and as Americans.

Ratings and reviews

Dear Brig, once they go through the very traumatic slaughterhouse (just ask Temple Grandin) they end up on your plate. So no matter how you get your meat, you cannot escape the fact that something died and going to a slaughterhouse is probably one of the worst ways to go. I hunt. I hunt ethically and responsibly. The animals I harvest don't suffer and they have lived happy lives and I thank and respect them much more than you will ever thank or respect your store bought meat. Please consider this point.

It takes me alot to get into books. I'm a hunter and outdoorsman of West Virginia. This has got to be by far the best book I've read. Little did I know that half way through I found out that this guy has a TV show that I love to watch also called meat eater. Never put 2 and 2 together. Just ordered American buffalo to read next. Can't wait!

My brother has been telling me about Steven Rinella for a few years and I finally read this book..wow! What an awesome way to live life and then share it in such an enjoyable way! I loved this book and now own all three of his books.

About the author

In addition to being an expert chef known for working with wild game, Steven Rinella is 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 podcast MeatEater, he is also the author of two volumes of The 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; and The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine. His writing has appeared in many publications, including Outside, Field & Stream, The New Yorker, Glamour, The New York Times, Men’s Journal, Salon, O: The Oprah Magazine, Bowhunter, and the anthologies Best American Travel Writing and Best Food Writing.