The Wild Ox of the Celebes has long had an attractive, exotic sound. If you close your eyes and concentrate, you can almost smell the actual wild ox cooking on a spit. When you are successful hunting, always remember it is very important to field dress the meat cleanly and not get too many wild …
When taking a ride on an elephant seems like a good idea, you have either had too much southeast-Asian sun, drank too many cactus colas or, possibly, in some extreme cases, both. It is a long way to the ground from the back of the beast. Thank god they are friendly. In Cambodia, the locals …
New Zealanders are outnumbered by sheep by about 15 to 1. They also love to travel, hence the “lights out” line. Rotorua, on the north island of New Zealand, is not only the home of the “boiling mud”, but also an unparalleled sheep demonstration. In the demonstration, the host of the show stands on a …
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As the old saying goes, “It is not about the size of your lure, it is all in the presentation.” The reason I was thinking along these lines is that summertime is the season for my buddy Steve to spend upwards of $5,OOO US per pound of fresh lake trout. This year, however, my buddy …
Very few people have ever heard of the “halibut toss”, which can only be described as riveting if you happen to be fortunate enough to catch a rare live performance. My friend Karen has put on a top-rung show, herself, entertaining us for an evening, although she had, at the time, substituted moose burgers for …
Testing the temperature of the barbecue grill using your nose is not a good idea. You can ask my buddy Kelly Kirby, yourself, why he prefers this innovative method. When I first witnessed the application of the nose-check method, it was employed during a raft trip. We had built a large raft and were floating …
The humanity. Singapore is certainly deserving of this year’s coveted “Most Unique Thing to Steal Award”. While most mild-mannered Canadians on holiday are satisfied just to lay, sit or walk on a beach, getting sand in our swimming costume is as close to stealing a beach as most of us might come in this lifetime. …
Possibly the most important question facing the cooking community as a whole today: “Is there a ‘Barbecue God’?” I have recently been impressed by the Indian Elephant God, Ganesha. Ganesha is often seen portrayed riding a mouse, and is the Hindu god of success and remover of all obstacles. The current insurmountable obstacles for me …
If you think pig wrestling is difficult, you have probably never tried cheese rolling. Last year, 19 SPECTATORS were injured at the Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling contest, apparently injured due to overcrowding. This gripping event has held visitors to Gloucestershire, England spellbound since 1826, and consists of a gaggle of earnest competitors that pursue rolling …
In retrospect, I was quite fortunate Miss Wright accepted my humble hand in marriage. At the time I met her I was gleefully stumbling along through the valley of the shadow of death, fearing – with the outside exception of wedlock – no evil. Genghis Khan himself would have been proud of me, even though …
The primeval need to flash-up the grill is totally irresistible … an innate, desperate need passed down through time. The outside temperature will never deter the intrepid grillmeister from accomplishing his task (it will just freeze the barbecue knobs. And I don’t mean his buddies). “Intelligence is something we are born with. Barbecuing is a …
“We want Mojo pork butt in a bag,” is an unlikely dinner request to emanate from your regular backyard barbecue clientèle. I won’t even mention “pulled chicken”. “We want ribs,” is more likely to be the cry you may hear from your great-unwashed rabble around dinnertime. The art of smokology may never face as fierce …
“When the meat is gone, we’ll eat the vegetarians”. This is the rallying cry of a barbecue herd from B.C. that takes the grilling of meat to be nothing short of a religious experience. If done correctly, grilling may be just that – as long as the meat is not over-cooked. Don’t even mention vegetables. …
Cedar plank barbecuing is becoming all the rage … for some very tasty reasons. This is an ancient method of cooking used along the Pacific North-West Coast among First Nations for some time. During a recent pre-ride cookout at Yukon Horsepacking Adventures, our expert chef, Naomi, demonstrated how it is properly done. As when smoking …
If you want to throw a few steaks on the barbecue for friends and family, you should be prepared and plan ahead: don’t do it the way I do. Prepare your salads and side dishes BEFORE you start grilling the meat, serving beverages and entertaining your guests. Securing the tablecloth to your backyard picnic table with …
On a trip to Greece, we set up camp just off the beach at the bottom of a huge cliff; to reach this location we walked down a steep path through an ancient olive grove. The next day we headed back up the path to gather wood for the cooking fire, returning to camp for …
“Bob, stop pouring beer on the meat; the kids have to eat that,” my mother would yell to my Dad in the backyard, scolding him from the porch. One of my earliest memories of a backyard family barbecue is the huge fireball that was sure to rise from the old, red, globe-shaped barbecue that …
Discussing which features you might want in a barbecue, a friend of mine stated a ceramic grill is the only way to go. This friend must have spent as much money on barbecues as the total gross domestic product of a small emerging nation, so you have to believe him. Side burners are OK, a …
