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March 29, 2025Call-of-the-Wild Meat
Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1389
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Guest: Daniel Laggner – Owner & Butcher Wild Stag Provisions
As a baby boomer growing up under Montana’s Big Sky, I ate a lot of wild meat.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Call of the Wild Meat
Money was tight just after World War II, and the foods that came wrapped in plastic at the grocery store were too expensive for a family of seven.
Fortunately, one grandfather had a farm, so we had a lot of farm-fresh food to eat. The other grandfather had firearms, and game was aplenty. We hunted antelope, deer, elk, pheasant, and sage hens, and we fished for rainbow trout in the tumbling white-water rapids of mountain streams. We ate them all!
I now live in the San Francisco Area metroplex, where call-of-the-wild food has largely been supplanted by the industrial foods that come wrapped in plastic from a distant factory. After all, very few of us city people can afford the time it takes to hunt and fish, so we eat what comes wrapped in plastic.
Still, one hopes, there still exists a hunger for that call-of-the-wild left in us, and so we pause to ask:
Where can we get a good taste of wild meat?
Leave a comment below: What is your favorite call-of-the-wild meat?
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