Hunt To Eat Show
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsOn the Hunt To Eat Show, Paul McCarney hosts conversations about community, real food, and conservation. We speak with guests involved in inspiring work in the outdoors, discuss current conservation news and events, and share tips and techniques related to food and cooking. Join us to explore important topics about hunting and fishing, learn about wildlife and wild places, and create an inclusive outdoors community.
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Episodes
Episode 26 - Environment and Politics in Beringia
June 02, 2022 12:00 - 49 minutes - 67.3 MBOn this episode, I chat with Dr. Bathsheba Demuth. Bathsheba is the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University, where she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. We chat about her multiple prize-winning first book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. Floating Coast is required reading for anyone who is interested in the intersection of political systems and the environment – which everyo...
Episode 25 - Innovating the Hunting Industry
May 19, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBOn today’s episode, I chat with Brad Brooks, the co-founder of Argali, a hunting gear and equipment company specializing in lightweight, functional gear made by and for hunters. Brad tells me about how he got into the hunting industry and was inspired, initially, to innovate by making his own game bags, and how Argali then expanded out to knives, a belt, and now a line of tents. We also chat about Argali’s approach to creating stunning hunting video content and how they choose the landscapes...
Episode 24 - Polar Bears and Climate Change
May 05, 2022 12:00 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MBOn this episode, I chat with Dr. Gregory Thiemann, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Greg has studied the ecology and conservation of polar bears and Arctic marine mammals for the past 21 years and talks to me about his research on trophic interactions, foraging ecology, and the use of biochemical markers to investigate predator diets. He has also been a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Polar Bea...
Episode 23 - Indigenous Conservation and the North American Model
April 28, 2022 12:00 - 52 minutes - 71.5 MBOn today’s episode, I chat with Caleb Musgrave, a Mississauga Anishinaabe man from Rice Lake Ontario, who has been training in wilderness survival, bushcraft and traditional woodcraft since he was a child. Caleb is the owner and director of Canadian Bushcraft, a wilderness skills and training company in Ontario that teaches courses ranging from blacksmithing and homesteading, to weeklong survival training courses, to guiding long trips into the backcountry. Caleb is also the host of the Cana...
Episode 22 - The Time and Temperature Equation
April 21, 2022 12:00 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBOn today's food episode, we have Tristan Henry back to chat about an age old question that has persisted from campfires to modern kitchens: choosing when to cook something with low heat for a long time or high heat for a short time. Tristan breaks down some of the science underlying cooking times and temperatures and give some great tips on achieving the Maillard reaction (named after the French physician and chemist Louis Camille Maillard, who lived from 1878-1936). Tune in for some insight...
Episode 21 - Understanding Death and Gratitude in Hunting
April 14, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBOn today’s episode, I chat with Dr. Sophie Gilbert, a wildlife biologist, hunter, mom, and grateful heterotroph living in Moscow, Idaho. For the past six years, she’s been a professor at the University of Idaho, where she’s worked on all kinds of projects, from deer in the coastal temperate rainforest of Alaska to the conjoined effects of drought and carnivores on wildlife-ranching systems in the west. Now, Sophie is joining a forest ecosystem services start-up, NCX, where she’ll work to mak...
Episode 20 - Plucking and Cooking Wild Turkey
April 07, 2022 12:00 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBOn this week's food episode, we continue the wild turkey theme from last week. Dr. Brian Bird is back to cover field, prep, and cooking techniques to bring your bird from field to table and ensure the meat stays high quality. He goes over the wet plucking method that will make sure you are able to keep that delicious turkey skin on the bird, gives some tips on how to get maximum mileage out of turkey legs and wings, and covers a simple and crowd-pleasing grilling process.
Episode 19 - All Things Wild Turkey
March 31, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBOn today’s episode, we take a deep dive into wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo). It’s coming on turkey season throughout Canada and the United States, and we thought this would be a great time to answer your turkey questions. To do that, we brought in Fred Bird, a wild turkey junkie and aficionado. Fred answers the questions you submitted to us on everything from wild turkey biology and ecology to hunting techniques. He also literally tells you why turkeys cross roads. In the conservation se...
Episode 18 - Cooking Upland Birds
March 24, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBIn today's food episode, Tristan Henry chats about training his new bird dog and getting after upland birds. He tells us about some of his favorite species to hunt and runs us through a recipe for cooking chukar to take advantage of the unique aspects of upland birds. In short: keep the skin, take advantage of the delicious fat, and cook them hot and fast. Check out all of Tristan's recipes on the Hunt To Eat website: https://hunttoeat.com/author/tristanhenry/
Episode 17 - The HSUS Black Bear Petition
March 17, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBOn today’s episode, I chat with Wendy Keefover, Senior Strategist of Native Carnivore Protection with the Wildlife Protection Department at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). This episode was a chance for all of us to pause and spend some time listening to each other to better understand different, sometimes opposing, perspectives. It was an opportunity for us to use this platform as a table for discussion and not head-butting argument. The HSUS recently submitted a petition to ...
Episode 16 - From Hard Water to Table
March 10, 2022 05:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBOn today’s food episode, Dr. Brian Bird joins me to chat about handling, preparing, and cooking his favourite fish caught through the ice. In addition to being a geologist, Brian has years of experience handling and butchering wild meat. Brian gives a fantastic overview of how to filet a fish, adding in a few key tips that will make the process easier. We chat about some of the ways he likes to prepare lake trout, perch, and pike, including oil poaching, oven baked, canning, ceviche, the goo...
Episode 15 - Outdoor Narratives, Adventures, and Joy
March 03, 2022 14:00 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBOn today’s episode, Demiesha Dennis, founder and director of Brown Girl Outdoor World (BGOW) joins us to talk about guiding people into the outdoors, fishing, joy and empowerment in the outdoors, and how she works to “Change the Narrative Through Adventure.” Demiesha is a knowledgeable fly angler, an absolute blast to talk to, and she is doing some great things in Canada to build a strong and supportive outdoor community. In the conservation segment, we cover some updates on eagle population...
Episode 14 - Cooking and Eating Like Humans
February 24, 2022 14:00 - 43 minutes - 60.3 MBOn today’s episode, I chat with Dr. Bill Schindler, a hunter, archaeologist, primitive technologist, and chef. Dr. Schindler’s book, Eat Like a Human: Nourishing Foods and Ancient Ways of Cooking to Revolutionize Your Health, examines what our ancestors’ dietary choices and cooking techniques can teach us about how we should eat in modern times. I talk with Dr. Schindler about everything from eating roadkill over three million years ago to the first knife-like tool used by humans to nose-to-...
Episode 13 - Enhancing the Social License to Hunt
February 17, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBOn today’s episode, Dr. Chris Darimont joins us to talk about a paper he co-authored a year ago that caused some debate among hunters. The paper, “Large carnivore hunting and the social license to hunt”, examines social theory around perceptions of hunting. We chat with Chris about some of his reflections on the paper one year after publication and what he thinks its insights can teach us about how hunters should engage in thoughtful dialogue with non-hunters and ensure we are being steadfas...
Episode 12 - East Coast Surf & Turf, Part 2
February 10, 2022 15:00 - 23 minutes - 32.3 MBOn today's food episode, Nova Scotian fisher, hunter, and chef Alyssa LeBlanc rejoins us to chat about white-tailed deer. She covers everything from why she is so precise and careful during the butchering process to mouth-watering recipes for butter-basted backstrap and venison donair. Check out Alyssa's other recipes on Instagram at @alyssaleblanc16. Be sure to subscribe and rate the show where you can!
Episode 11 - Poetry and Science
February 03, 2022 15:00 - 45 minutes - 62 MBOn today’s episode, S.A. Leger joins us to talk about the many different styles of writing in conservation. Steph is a biologist, poet, hunter, and bird fanatic, and writer who engages in outdoors and conservation issues through both scientific and creative outlets. We talk about finding inspiration across different styles of communication and how they can inform one another. In the conservations segment, we give updates on some pronghorn conservation work coming out of Alberta (33:20), popul...
Episode 10 - East Coast Surf & Turf, Part 1
January 27, 2022 15:00 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBOn today's episode, Alyssa LeBlanc joins us to chat about east coast Canadian seafood. You might recognize Alyssa from some of the wonderful cooking content available on the Hunt To Eat website and YouTube channel. She tells us about heading out in the ocean in her not-so-seaworthy boat to fish for mackerel, haddock, cod, and flounder (plus the occasional shark encounter); foraging for mussels and clams; and shares a couple of recipes, including a truly east coast take on poutine. This is pa...
Episode 9 - Building Collaboration for Habitat
January 20, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBOn today’s episode, photographer and conservationist John Marriott joins us to chat about his work photographing wildlife in the Canadian Rockies and the need for collaboration across hunters and non-hunters in working towards habitat conservation. In the conservation segment, I give some updates on recently proposed and potential changes to hunting in Washington, Colorado, and Arizona; why I don’t use the term “Antis” to refer to a large group of people with diverse perspectives; the need t...
Episode 8 - Knowing Peter Spencer's Humanity
January 17, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBThis is an extra episode of the Hunt To Eat Show. Peter Spencer was a father, partner, brother, son, provider, and hunter. In this episode, Demiesha Dennis of Brown Girl Outdoor World and Lydia Parker of Hunters Of Color tell us about what is known of Peter Spencer's story and talk about the need for anti-racism in the outdoors. Peter Spencer was a Black man who was found dead with nine bullet wounds after joining a group of white men in an outdoors activity in December 2021. While the inves...
Episode 7 - Seal, Wild Turkey, and Morels
January 13, 2022 15:00 - 40 minutes - 55.8 MBOn today’s episode, we chat with Michael Hunter, a chef, hunter, forager, and the co-owner of Antler Kitchen & Bar, a restaurant that specializes in cooking and serving game species in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I chat with Michael about how writing and publishing “The Hunter Chef Cookbook” inspired him to open his own restaurant and he shares some ideas about cooking a couple favourite species. On the conservation segment, we revisit the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) Conservation Initiative and...
Episode 6 - Conservation and Politics in New Mexico
January 06, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 123 MBOn today's episode, we are joined by Gabe Vasquez, a City Councilor in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Gabe is running for Congress in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District and joined us to talk about conservation priorities in New Mexico and his approach to navigating the intersection of conservation and politics. He gives us an update on the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA) and the success of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument as a conservation success for New ...
Episode 5 - Habitat and Human Connectivity
December 16, 2021 15:01 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBOn this episode, we chat with Jessie Grossman, the U.S. Program Manager with the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y). Jessie tells us about Y2Y’s focus on connectivity and working to protect habitat that supports a range of wildlife and human activities. Y2Y takes a unique and refreshing approach to facilitating collaboration between multiple groups of stakeholders and rights holders in the Yellowstone to Yukon region. During the conservation segment, Hunt To Eat’s CEO, Mahtin...
Episode 4 - Learn to Hunt To Eat
December 02, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBOn this episode, we chat with Cindy Stites, the Director of Education at Hunt To Eat. Cindy tells us about the Hunt Camps hosted by Hunt To Eat. The camps are held throughout the U.S. and focus on a range of species and hunting formats. They are based on mentorship and building community, offering you the education, training, and dialogue you need to start hunting. On the conservation segment, we focus on expanding our community and run through some other organizations and platforms that off...
Episode 3 - The Nature of Graphic Design
November 18, 2021 15:44 - 1 hour - 96.7 MBOn this episode, we talk to Doug Huegel and Judy Russ. Doug is the Owner and Judy is the Brand Manager at Doug Does Design, a nature-based graphic design company. We chat with Doug and Judy about how they use their creative work to bring together their passions for nature, justice, and community. We talk about how creativity, hunting, and caring about the world are all part of the same pursuit. In the conservation segment, Casey and Paul talk about some of the complexity and controversy of t...
Episode 2 - Reflecting Complexity
November 04, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBOn this episode, we are joined by Dr. Carol Linnitt, co-founder of The Narwhal. Carol is a journalist, editor, illustrator, and surfer. The Narwhal is a leading voice in the world of investigative and critical environmental journalism. We chat with Carol about the importance in engaging with the complexity that defines conservation issues and the role that journalists can play in bridging perspectives. As hunters, we can learn a great deal from Carol's approach to "reflecting complexity, rat...
Episode 2 - Reflecting Complexity
November 04, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBOn this episode, we are joined by Carol Linnitt, co-founder of The Narwhal. Carol is a journalist, editor, illustrator, surfer, and PhD. The Narwhal is a leading voice in the world of investigative and critical environmental journalism. We chat with Carol about the importance in engaging with the complexity that defines conservation issues and the role that journalists can play in bridging perspectives. As hunters, we can learn a great deal from Carol's approach to "reflecting complexity, ra...
Episode 1 - A Retrospective on Learning to Hunt
October 21, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBOn today's episode, we talk with author and journalist, Lily Raff McCaulou. Lily's memoir, Call of the Mild: Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner is a poignant and humorous reflection on her journey learning to hunt as an adult. Lily reflects on the nine years since the book has been released, some of the changes in her life, her hopes for hunting, and some of the social changes since she wrote her book. In the conservation segment, we chat about some other books we think are important for folks i...
Episode 0 - Welcome to the Hunt To Eat Community
October 07, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 136 MBWelcome to the Hunt To Eat Show's inaugural episode! This podcast engages with thoughtful guests to have conversations about Hunt To Eat's three pillars: community, real food, and conservation. Hosted by Casey Pelzl and Paul McCarney, the show digs into the challenges and complexities involved in conservation and gathering our own food. We tackle difficult conservations, have some fun, and work to create a meaningful and inclusive hunting and outdoors community. In the guest segment of this ...