Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time by Georgia Pellegrini

Author:Georgia Pellegrini
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Cooking (Game), Cooking, Social Science, Hunting, Hunting - Philosophy, Hunters, Pellegrini, Food Habits - Philosophy, Sports & Recreation, General, Specific Ingredients, Game, Georgia, Women Hunters, Agriculture & Food, Georgia - Travel, Biography & Autobiography, Women
ISBN: 9780738214665
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2011-12-13T00:00:00+00:00

It all brings me back to a very similar conversation I had in a place so very far off from here, the place my new British friends call “ArKansas.” Guns are one of the great American debates, one of the most singularly divisive topics. Once in Arkansas, sitting on a tree stump around a campfire, the Commish told me that he taught his daughter how to use a shotgun when she was ten. He wanted to demystify it, to teach her responsibility, to help her understand it was a tool to be respected and understood. But in America, guns are not associated with class, but with those who are less evolved—more “backwoods.” Here in the “backwoods” of England, however, shotguns and rifles are a symbol of class and sophistication. They are desirable and viewed as useful, tools with a purpose. To know how to shoot them well is to demonstrate that you are, in fact, evolved. Somehow that notion was lost on the journey across the Atlantic. Hunting in the United States became associated with some sort of white, middle-aged mancation—guys going out into the woods together to drink gallons of beer, tell dirty jokes, and occasionally shoot at something. But in truth, just like Texas Hill Country, this kind of hunting at Ellington is once-in-a-lifetime hunting—it isn’t easily accessible for an everyday omnivore.

I think about all of this as I walk slowly along the wet path back to the estate, listening to the conversation turn to another meal to come. It seems impossible that one could consume any more food and drink on this day, but there is the important matter of supper, which includes a bowl of drunken berries. Fergus is already making plans for the full English “brekkie” the next morning. But as is expected with the fragile human body, people begin to fall in and out of sleep on the couch in the library, leaning their heads on each other’s shoulders, breathing softly and sometimes heavily. Fergus sits with a girl’s head on his shoulder, puffing his pipe, wearing a faint look of amusement.

“Sleep, sleep, sleep,” he says, “Sleep, sleep, sleep mode. And when you awake, if you’re so inclined, you can have a light pastor dinner.” And we do. With cheeks ruddy and bellies full, we all fall asleep.

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