The Orvis Cookbook:
Fifty Complete Menus for Fish and Game

By: Romi Perkins
ISBN: 1-59228-345-4
The Lyons Press

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Foreword

Introduction

1. Happy New Year and Good Luck! (January)

2. Do Look a Gift Haunch in the Mouth (January)

3. Ike Eisenhower's Favorite Hunt Luncheon (January)

4. In Memory of the Takaro Club (February)

5. Where are you Going? CXI Via VK, Of Course. (February)

6. Yes, Virginia, There Are Snipe Hunts (february)

7. A Special Plantation Dinner (February)

8. Bonefish Fever in Quintana Roo (March)

9. Camping Out with only Nineteen Servants in Uttar Pradesh (March)

10. A Picnic in Patagonia (March)

11. Dinner for Judges and Officials the Evening Before the Field Trial (March)

12. An Easter Treat (April)

13. Dove Shooting in the Middle Atlas Region (April)

14. A Battenkill Banquet (May)

15. A Supper to Celebrate Signs of Spring (May)

16. A Spring Luncheon in Honor of a Dinosaur and His Typewriter (May)

17. Dinner with the King (June)

18. A Fast and Easy Luncheon for Departing House Guests (June)

19. A Riverside Repast Following the Evening Rise (July)

20. A Dinner that Recalls Normandy (July)

21. A Supreme Salmon Luncheon (July)

22. Cold Duck on a Hot Summer Day (August)

23. A Dinner Preceding the Summer Theatre (August)

24. A Safari Luncheon in Botswana (August)

25. House Party: Shooting in Cumbria (September)

26. Perdix Perdix Perdix in Denmark (September)

27. Dove shooting in Georgia (September)

28. Don't Cook this in a Double Broiler (October)

29 A Savoury Autumn Dinner in Vermont (October)

30. A Dinner for Your Dearest Friends (October)

31. A Classic Wild Duck Dinner (November )

32. Hunter's Luncheon (November)

33. A Plantation Thanksgiving (November)

34. The Annual Duck Shoot and Dogfight (November)

35. A Plantation Picnic for Quail Hunters (December)

36. A Christmastime Cocktail Party for a Small Group (December)

New Recipes for the New Millennium

37. A Menu for Any Meal (January)
38. Duck Hunter's Breakfast (February
39. A Light and Satisfying Luncheon (March)
40. The Best Salmon Recipe of Them All (April)
41. A Luncheon Approaching Chic
42. A Flavorsome Light Supper (June)
43. Uptown Catfish (July)
44. Eat Your Dinner, Then You'll Get Your Favorite Dessert (August)
45. A Savory Autumn Dinner in Wyoming (September)
46. A Perfect Marriage: Onion Shortcake and Venison Liver (October)
47. Bravo, Boar Hunters! (November)
48. At Last, A Useful End for Kumquats (December)

Appendix

Index

From The Publisher:

Orvis represents the best in outdoor life- and what is the essence of living well in the outdoors if not eating well the good things of the earth?  In The Orvis Cookbook, Romi Perkins offers her years of expertise with complete fish and game menus to bring out the unique flavors of such pleasures as pheasant, venison, and wild salmon, and advises on the wines that complement them.

Extraordinary dishes grace this wonderful cookbook, including Roasted Canada Goode with Butternut Squash and Chestnut Puree, Smoked Venison Haunch, Roast Quail on Grit Croustadines, Quail Hash on Buttered wild Rice, Red Snapper with Sour Cream, Grilled Sharptail Grouse, and "The Best Salmon Recipe of Them All." Romi Perkins also provides recipes for side dishes and desserts that perfectly balance each entree, including Basil Fritatta, Spinach Roulade with Mushroom Sauce, Melon in Lemon-Ginger Marinade, and Calvados Apple Tart.

The Orvis Cookbook blends flavors as eternal as the hunt itself with the exciting cross-cultural influences of the new millennium. And the invaluable appendix by the author's husband, Leigh Perkins, shows how to clean, pluck, hang, cook, and freeze game.  The Orvis Cookbook is for all fishing and hunting enthusiasts-and all lovers of fine food and choice wine.

Romi Perkins is a great wing-shot and fly fisher-as well as a superb cook.  She lives in Manchester, Vermont.

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