The following is an excerpt fromCamp Cooking: A Practical Handbook by Fred Bouwman (Skyhorse Publishing, 2009). The excerpt is from Chapter 2: Shore Lunch. One way that some fur trappers and other ...

The mild-flavored alligator meat works well in many dishes, said Richard and he hopes to prove that theory with his special dinner menu, which includes the reptile's flesh subbed out in dishes that ...

"Tastes like chicken" — a commonly-used phrase to help describe foods that might be considered a little out there. That is how Chuck Donohue, owner of Lewes Fishhouse, describes turtle meat. He sells ...

Donald Bourgeois of Bourgeois Meat Market in Thibodaux said this recipe was his mom's. "When we couldn't get turtle meat, she would use the ox tails instead. She called it mock turtle soup. Turtle ...

Never having eaten turtle before, the first thing Edward Kim did when he got a few pounds of snapping-turtle meat was panfry some. “I cooked it really quickly—I saw how quickly it was tensing up, and ...

A curious wooden structure tucked away in a slender courtyard off the dining room of Kingfish Kitchen & Cocktails in the French Quarter sends tempting wisps of smoke into the air. The smoker, which ...

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