Award-winning food writer Betty Fussell has a fantastic essay in the most recent New York Times magazine about going hunting for deer for the first time at the age of 82. I met Betty last month in New York City when she showed up for my Slow Food NYC workshop on deer hunting. She took a lot of notes, asked intelligent questions and said very kind things to me afterward. I can also recommend her recent book, 'Raising Steaks,' which is an excellent history of the beef steak in American cuisine. Betty knows meat in and out.
There is no reason why people can't learn how to hunt at any age, no matter how advanced. My first deer hunting class had a student in his mid 70's who turned out to be as keen a shot and as quick a learner as anyone else in the group.
[Photo by Norman Jean Roy]
3 comments:
I read your article in the NY Times, great job creating such a wonderful learning experience for so many people. I am also going to start a fly fishing school in the Sugarloaf area. Jackson Landers you have inspired me, thank you!!
Betty's story is a great one!
Jack, glad you doing a Return of the Locavore Hunter to NYC. And thanks for giving me air time to encourage young ---and very old---to learn what it means to hunt.
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