The Game Cookbook [Hardcover]

"..excellent recipes (traditional and modern) as well as clear advice on how to hang, pluck and roast."

'a definitive work'

a celebration of the glorious wild food the countryside yields... mouthwatering

This is more than a glorious cookery book: there is a fascinating essay about every species mentioned

stocked with amusing anecdotes and offset with luscious photography.

"the right book written by the right people... gorgeous snippets of wisdom that jump off every page"

Authoritative and adventurous in its recipes, it deserves to become a classic.

It is entertaining, informative [and] gets the gastric juices flowing

alluring, want-to-cook-now recipes... a very satisfying, thorough book

It is fun, accessilbe and takes the stuffiness out of food that sometimes has a self-image problem

Written by two passionate countryside campaigners, Clarissa Dickson-Wright and Johnny Scott, this authoritative book features over 140 easy-to-follow recipes from stir fried pheasant with mustard beans to salmon fishbakes made with gnocchi.

Clarissa Dickson Wright, formerly of 'Two Fat Ladies' fame, has six cookery books and one Food Anthology to her name. Since then she has starred with Johnny Scott in three series of 'Clarissa and the Countryman' for BBC2 and they have co-authored three books on the series: Clarissa and the Countryman, and Sally Forth and Sunday Roast. Johnny Scott is a keen shot and horseman. As a farmer, naturalist and historian he has written for many newspapers and magazines. He studied farming on three continents, was a jackaroo, miner, lumberjack and brakeman in the British bobsleigh team, before returning to farm hefted black-face sheep in southern Scotland. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.