The MeatEater Podcast

True Grit

Charles Portis

A character in the novel reportedly had an injury and stated something swelled up tighter than Dick's hat band.

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Do you know what Charles Portis' novel, True Grit? A guy says... Someone has an injury. I can't remember if he gets bit by a snake. And he says it's swelled up tighter than Dick's hat band.

The Free and the Dead

Jamie Holmes

This was Jamie Holmes's third book and it was about the Seminole Wars, focusing on complexity that turned preconceived notions about the war on their head. The book featured deep archival research, leading to a very extensive notes section that was almost as long as the book itself.

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His third book's out. Just out. I'm holding my hand here. It's called The Free and the Dead, The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, The Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War.

12 Seconds Of Silence

Jamie Holmes

This was Jamie Holmes's second book, which focused on World War II and a group of scientists who invented a new weapon to shoot down airplanes, which they used successfully against a Nazi super weapon. He fell in love with archive work while researching this book, which served as a bridge from his first book on science to his third.

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The bridge is my second book, which is 12 seconds of silence, which is completely within this genre, which is historical narrative nonfiction with a ton of archive work.

The Gales of November

John U. Bacon

The book about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald was mentioned as an example of the type of content that would appear in the new interview show format of the podcast.

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recently we had on a guy talking about his book about the Edmund Fitzgerald. Okay. For instance, that which is called the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. That's the interview show.

Bobcat of North America (Wildlife Management Institute Classics)

Stanley P. Young

A book about bobcats from 1960 was mentioned as containing interesting historical information about the animal, despite lacking modern collaring data.

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I've got a very interesting book for you. I was going to bring it on this trip, but I forgot it. And the title of it is the Bobcat of North America.

The Interpretation of Cultures

Clifford Geertz

The podcast host used an excerpt from this book's essay "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" to compare the cultural significance of Balinese cockfighting to the deer hunting traditions depicted in the movie *Escanaba in the Moonlight*. The essay discusses how seemingly irrational behaviors can hold profound meaning within a cultural context.

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What sets deer hunting apart from the ordinary course of life lifts it from the realm of everyday practical affairs and surrounds it with an aura of enlarged importance is not, as a functionalist society would have it, that it reinforces status, but that it provides a metasocial commentary upon the whole matter of assorting human beings into fixed hierarchical ranks and then organizing the major part of collective existence around that assortment.

MeatEater's Wild + Whole

Danielle Prewett

This cookbook, an ode to seasonal cooking with wild and foraged ingredients, was described as containing over 80 recipes inspired by ingredients one can hunt, fish, forage, or grow. It was praised for its accessible recipes and beautiful, full-color photographs.

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We've got a new book coming out in the meat eater universe, and for the first time, it is not one of mine.

Undaunted Courage

Stephen E. Ambrose

It was discussed as a New York Times bestseller about Lewis and Clark, selling over 200,000 copies in its first month, and a planned HBO series based on it was canceled.

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What is the name of the New York Times bestseller about Lewis and Clark that was written by Stephen Ambrose?

The MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook

Steven Rinella

This cookbook contains over 80 recipes that use ingredients one can hunt, fish, forage, or grow in their garden, often pairing ingredients from different seasons; it is described as having gorgeous, full-color photographs.

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MeatEater's Wild and Hole. Seasonal recipes for the conscious cook

The MeatEater Outdoor Cookbook

Steven Rinella

The MeatEater Outdoor Cookbook was referenced when discussing a cola ancho jerky recipe, which was made in a dehydrator instead of a smoker and also featured Kashmiri chili powder instead of ancho chili.

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So I went to the new Meter Outdoor Cookbook and went to Cola Ancho Jerky.

Wild Country (World of the Others, The)

Anne Bishop

It was mentioned that Mark Kenyon may have learned about the Jefferson and Madison Rivers from writing this book.

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Learned this from writing his book that wild country.

Night of the Grizzlies

Jack Olsen

This 1969 book, originally a three-part article in *Sports Illustrated*, details the fatal maulings of two young women in Glacier National Park.